The United Nations Human Rights Council today agreed by consensus to launch an urgent fact-finding mission and commission of inquiry into atrocities being committed by all parties to the armed ...

In the cockeyed Canada of Matthew Rankin’s nutty comedy “Universal Language,” Winnipeg is colourful and bustling while Montreal is dreary and almost comatose. Peter Howell is a Toronto-based ...

OTTAWA - A human rights lawyer whose tenure as head of the Canadian Human Rights Commission ended before it really began is suing a Conservative politician, a media personality and the Centre for ...

Washington | Reuters — Jamieson Greer, President Donald Trump’s nominee for U.S. trade representative, said on Thursday that a universal tariff ... report by April 1. The Canadian government has ...

The declaration that will set out guiding principles for Asean member states to respect, promote, protect and fulfill both substantive and procedural environmental human rights was mooted by the ...

The advisory board will provide strategic guidance to Cleantech Adoption Platform, which is set to launch later this year, ensuring that Canadian innovators, and public and private sector leaders, can ...

The document also continued a stop to funding for the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). "The US funding to the UN is excessive and unfair," the US President said while signing ...

Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations Bob Rae criticized President Trump over his recent comments and actions regarding Canada, saying the country deserves to be “treated with respect.” Rae joined ...

Canadian ambassador to the United Nations Bob Rae criticized President Trump over his recent comments and actions regarding Canada, saying the country deserves to be “treated with respect.” ...

ISRAEL VS UNRWA Israel's UN ambassador, Danny Danon, on Monday praised the expected moves by Trump, accusing the Human Rights Council of "aggressively promoting extreme anti-Semitism". "At the ...

Two successive terms of U.S. membership on the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), before the mandatory one-year hiatus, have improved the body’s performance in several ways. These improvements ...