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  • 30 Years After Tiananmen: Democracy More Urgent than Ever

    30 Years After Tiananmen: Democracy More Urgent than Ever

    • May 30, 2019

    In early May, US State Department Director of Policy Planning Kiron Skinner was rebuked in China’s English-language media for characterizing US–China relations as a “clash of civilizations.” Skinner’s rhetoric reflects a Cold War mentality that overlooks centuries of mutual contact …

    By Scott Simon
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  • Mass Wedding Banquet to Celebrate Same-Sex Marriage in Taiwan

    Mass Wedding Banquet to Celebrate Same-Sex Marriage in Taiwan

    • May 30, 2019

    After new legislation permitting same-sex marriage came into effect in Taiwan on 24 May 2019, LGBT couples and their families began celebrating their new freedom. Journalists and foreign diplomats (including Canadian representative Jordan Reeves) crowded into Taipei City Hall to …

    By Scott Simon
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  • What Canada Can Do About the Rohingya Genocide

    What Canada Can Do About the Rohingya Genocide

    • May 1, 2019

    By Payam Akhavan and John Packer

    Twenty-five years ago, as young UN human rights officers working together in Geneva, we witnessed how the world watched and did nothing as close to a million Rwandan Tutsis were exterminated. Brimming with idealism …

    By CIPS
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  • “If you want to kill me, please kill me quick”

    “If you want to kill me, please kill me quick”

    • April 12, 2019

    The images, and voices, from Libya’s migrant detention centres are sickening. An online blog posted a letter written by an anonymous refugee from Darfur, detained in Libya. “RS” writes of having left his village, destroyed by the Janjaweed, to find …

    By Patti Tamara Lenard
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  • Punishment or Banishment?

    Punishment or Banishment?

    • February 22, 2019

    So-called jihadi brides are in the news, accused of supporting terrorism by having travelled to ISIS territory to marry ISIS fighters in support of the caliphate. Three Western states are implicated: the UK, the US, and Canada.

    UK citizen Shemima …

    By Patti Tamara Lenard
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  • “Nothing to Lose”: The Daily Struggles of Venezuelans

    “Nothing to Lose”: The Daily Struggles of Venezuelans

    • February 5, 2019

    By Rosana Lezama Sanchez

    Venezuelan emigrants always talk about how much they miss the country they left behind. I returned to Caracas in August of 2018, but I too miss Venezuela. The Venezuela that I grew up in was certainly …

    By CIPS
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  • Canada Can’t Put Human Rights on the Back Burner in 2019

    Canada Can’t Put Human Rights on the Back Burner in 2019

    • December 19, 2018

    By Stéphanie Bacher

    Over the past year, Canada has taken some important steps to promote and protect human rights abroad. However, the picture is not as rosy as often presented by the government, and Canada still has a long way …

    By CIPS
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  • Facing the Biggest Challenges of Our Generation

    Facing the Biggest Challenges of Our Generation

    • December 18, 2018

    By Gabriel Bichet, Eve Cassavoy, Maddie Hunt, Jasmine Sebastian, and Emma Turner (ENG1100Q), edited by Ruth Bradley-St-Cyr

    In September, I took on teaching three sections of ENG1100: Workshop in Essay Writing, a required course for first-year students at the University …

    By CIPS
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  • Time to Move Past the Errors of the War on Terror

    Time to Move Past the Errors of the War on Terror

    • December 10, 2018

    The aftermath of 9/11 produced many problems in many countries. Canadian police and security agencies made numerous mistakes as followers and participants in an ill-considered American-led War on Terror declared shortly after that tragedy. The evidence in two public inquiries …

    By Daniel Livermore
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  • Human and Non-Human Rights — Convergence or Conflict?

    Human and Non-Human Rights — Convergence or Conflict?

    • December 10, 2018

    Today is the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Most reflections on this milestone are likely to sound a sombre note, dwelling on the many challenges faced by those championing human rights in an increasingly …

    By David Petrasek
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  • Democracy’s Promise Unfulfilled while Violence against Women in Politics Persists

    Democracy’s Promise Unfulfilled while Violence against Women in Politics Persists

    • December 10, 2018

    In October 2018, the Office for the High Commissioner on Human Rights’ Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women and Girls presented a report to the UN General Assembly recognizing violence against women in politics (VAWP) as a human rights violation …

    By Gabrielle Bardall
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  • Blue Wave Swamps Taiwan Elections

    Blue Wave Swamps Taiwan Elections

    • November 28, 2018

    Taiwan’s mid-term elections on 24 November brought a renewed “blue wave” to the island democracy. In this case, the blues are the Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang, KMT) and allies who favour rapprochement with China. The greens are the …

    By Scott Simon
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Latest Posts

  • 30 Years After Tiananmen: Democracy More Urgent than Ever
    30 Years After Tiananmen: Democracy More Urgent than Ever
    • Analysis
    • May 30, 2019
  • Mass Wedding Banquet to Celebrate Same-Sex Marriage in Taiwan
    Mass Wedding Banquet to Celebrate Same-Sex Marriage in Taiwan
    • Analysis
    • May 30, 2019
  • What Canada Can Do About the Rohingya Genocide
    What Canada Can Do About the Rohingya Genocide
    • Analysis
    • May 1, 2019
  • “If you want to kill me, please kill me quick”
    “If you want to kill me, please kill me quick”
    • Analysis
    • April 12, 2019
  • Punishment or Banishment?
    Punishment or Banishment?
    • Analysis
    • February 22, 2019
  • “Nothing to Lose”: The Daily Struggles of Venezuelans
    “Nothing to Lose”: The Daily Struggles of Venezuelans
    • Analysis
    • February 5, 2019

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