Author: Michael Murphy

04 Jan International rights tribunal to probe ownership of native land: The case involves 300,000 hectares of land on the east coast of Vancouver Island (The Globe and Mail)

A Vancouver Island native group has won a ruling that will force the Canadian government to defend its domestic human rights record at an international tribunal later this year.  The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has approved the Hul'qumi'num Treaty Group's petition to hear the...

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21 Dec Guatemala will pay $3 million to massacre victims (Reuters)

Guatemala will pay $3 million to compensate victims of a civil war-era massacre in order to comply with an international court ruling, the nation's human rights chief said on Monday.  The Inter-American Court of Human Rights called for the payments after concluding that the Guatemalan...

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