Multinational oil companies operating in Nigeria are complicit in human rights violations according to a recent report released by Human Rights Watch.
Human rights
John Rumbiak is a supervisor for West Papua Institute for Human Rights Study and Advocacy (ELSHAM) based in Jayapura, the capital of West Papua province in Indonesia. He toured Canada in November 2002 to promote awareness of the oppression and exploitation of the Papuan people by the U.S. multinational, Freeport McMoran, and the Indonesian military. His visit was sponsored by Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives (KAIROS).
In the December 2000/January 2001 Monitor, I reported that Enbridge Inc., one of Canada's leading energy corporations, was linked to death squads in Colombia according to information provided by Amnesty International. Below, I examine the impact of this revelation in Canada as well as detail the further damage caused in Colombia by the consortium of which Enbridge is a part.
Does the Canadian-promoted "Responsibility to Protect" doctrine in Haiti include murder, rape, and threats of violence?
That's the question we should be asking Canadian officials after a study in the prestigious Lancet medical journal released at the end of August revealed there were 8,000 murders, 35,000 rapes and thousands of incidents of armed threats in the 22 months after the overthrow of the elected government in Haiti.
Almost everyone in Canada now understands, and more or less accepts, the notion of human rights. It wasn't always so. The idea has a relatively short history in Canada, given that the UN Charter dates from just after the Second World War. Human rights first gained a foothold in our political culture in the early 1970s when provinces passed bills of rights and set up human rights commissions--agencies that accept complaints about rights violations and do their best to educate people about what their rights are.
Recent CCPA Monitor articles described how our privacy as citizens and consumers is under world-wide siege by governments and transnational corporations. Employee privacy isn’t faring very well, either. Understand the forces at work. Know the stakes and what to look for--and how you can protect yourself, your family, your co-workers and friends.
Five million people die unnecessarily every year from lack of clean water. Each day, 6,000 children die from water-borne diseases. The United Nations estimates that, if current trends continue, more than two-thirds of the world’s population by 2025 will not have enough access to water.
In Labour Left Out, Roy Adams reports on his research into the failure of Canadian governments to protect and promote the collective bargaining rights of both unionized and non-unionized workers in this country.
Privacy is an extremely complex human value, but it boils down to the need and “right to be let alone”--to be free of unwarranted intrusions into our daily lives, 24/7. Think of privacy as a cultural and legal shield protecting our bodies, minds, homes, and other private spaces, as well as our personal activities, communications, possessions, and information. Especially our personal information when, without our knowledge or consent, it is collected, used, and “shared” by governments, businesses, friends and foes in ways we might find invasive or unfair.