Human Rights and Peacebuilding

Index: Writings | Remedies for atrocity crimes | Religion, human rights & conflict | Business & human rights | Cambodia | Myanmar | Other human rights issues |

Peacebuilding is inextricable from the promotion and implementation of human rights. Peacemakers Trust adheres to international human rights norms. See a definition of "peacebuilding." Peacemakers Trust work on human rights and peacebuilding includes:

• Resources and writings on human rights issues
  • Articles, columns, reports, and papers
    
  • Links to international law and standards

• Business, human rights and conflict
  • Bibliography (in progress)
    
  • Resources on business and human rights in Canada.... see more (in progress)
• Religion, human rights and conflict
  • Religion, rights and conflict in Canada: The internationally protected freedom of religion or belief... See more
• Remedies for atrocity crimes
  • The International Crime of Enforced Disappearance: Prevention, Accountability and Remedies: Research, writing and UN submissions, 2023
• Cambodia
  • Legal Development and Human Rights in Cambodia.
• Myanmar
  • Links to country information on Myanmar
    
  • Justice for the Rohingya: The Role of Canada. An international virtual roundtable of experts, 21 May 2020.
    
  • Canada's obligation to hold Myanmar accountable for genocide. Briefing note, 13 June 2019.
    
  • Rohingya refugees from Myanmar at the “gates of hell”: International law duties of neighbouring States to refugees and asylum seekers, 9 November 2017
• Articles on human rights issues
  • "Russia’s Rule of Law(lessness) threatens advocates worldwide: A Canadian case study." Slaw: Canada's online legal magazine, with Julia Tchezganova, forthcoming 14 March 2024.
  • "Buried under the rubble: Haunted reflections at the turn of the year." Slaw: Canada's online legal magazine, 2 January 2024. Available online.
  • "Protecting Human Rights Defenders Globally: Does Canada Mean Business?" Slaw: Canada's Online Legal Magazine, 2 November 2023. Available online.
  • "Unforgotten on the Day of the Disappeared: Missing Human Rights Advocates." Slaw: Canada's Online Legal Magazine, 30 August 2023. Available online.
  • "Canada Stakes Out Its Bid for Election to the UN Human Rights Council." Slaw.: Canada's Online Legal Magazine, 20 July 2023. Available online.
  • "Giving Peace a Chance: Pushing Back on a Chilling Russian Censorship Law," with Lauren A. McCarthy, in Slaw: Canada's Online Legal Magazine, 23 May 2023, available online.
  • "The Disappeared: Indigenous Peoples and the international crime of enforced disappearances," with Rebekah Smith, in Slaw: Canada's Online Legal Magazine, 20 March 2023, available online. Also see the submission to the UN Human Rights Council.
  • "Going Grey and Facing Age Discrimination: Moving Towards an International Treaty on the Rights of Older Persons" Slaw.ca, 23 September 2022. Available online. Republished 31 December 2022 by LLRX.com
  • "The Toughest Job in the UN: The High Commissioner for Human Rights" Slaw.ca, 23 September 2022. Available online
  • "The Guns of Summer in the US and Canada: Whose Rights Count?" Slaw.ca, 22 July 2022. Available online
  • "The UN’s Achilles Heel Mires International Action to Halt Aggression and Atrocities in Ukraine." Slaw.ca, 19 May 2022. Available online
  • "The “Two Michaels” and Celil: Windows Into China’s Legal Gulag," Slaw.ca, 16 November 2021." Available online
  • "Protect Afghanistan’s truth-tellers: Human rights defenders in a world of diplomatic doublespeak,” Slaw.ca, 15 September 2021." Available online
  • "USA vs. the International Criminal Court: A Fraught History in the Quest for International Accountability for Atrocity Crimes” Slaw.ca, 19 May 2021. Available online
  • "Myanmar Coup: 'A Crisis Born of Impunity'," Slaw.ca, 25 February 2021. Available online
  • "'You… Are Your Brothers’ and Sisters’ Keepers”: Now Is the Time to Move From Words to Deeds," Slaw.ca, 23 June 2020. Available online