Sending heaps of love and compassion to the families, the injured and all of the people of Tumbler Ridge. May you draw comfort from every corner of this country, for we are all holding you close.

What gives, Board of Peace?

Des arguments convaincants de la part de @bernardduhaime.bsky.social et Noémie Boivin pour que Canada s'engage pleinement dans le système interaméricain des droits de la personne. Il est grand temps de reconnaître que nous faisons partie de cet hémisphère!

The @uninvhrc.bsky.social's FFM on #Venezuela is watching the Amnesty Law closely. Here is our call for greater transparency & inclusivity, reiterating urgent need to release all political prisoners. Venezuela's repressive laws need to be dismantled & a comprehensive rights-based agenda instituted.

Fredericton friends. And NB friends more widely, in case you happen to be in town. So honoured and very much looking forward to delivering this year's Lodhi Lecture in Human Rights at the Atlantic Human Rights Centre at @stthomasu.bsky.social.

This calls for a reaction way beyond muted "disappointment" and appeals for a "humanitarian" release, Minister @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social. Canada should be outraged & incensed (as Canadians are), and should demand & insist that #JimmyLai be immediately & unconditionally released.

That #JimmyLai was charged & then convicted was an affront to free expression. This 20 year prison sentence is disgraceful contempt for human rights. Governments around the world must decry this flagrant injustice and call for his unconditional release.

My op-ed in the Hill Times: "If this country is serious that our way forward must and will be "principled and pragmatic" then the path we must walk is clear: close the U.S. arms export loophole." All MPs need to get behind @jennykwan.bsky.social's Bill C-233.

My article for @policyalternatives.ca on the perversity, absurdity & illegality of Donald Trump's Board of "Peace".

Powerful from Allan Rock and Lloyd Axworthy. Makes the irrefutable case for MPs to support @jennykwan.bsky.social's Bill C-233, #NoMoreLoopholes.

"The 3 January US attack on Venezuela was an unlawful use of force under the UN Charter... Meanwhile, the crimes against humanity perpetrated by the Maduro government against the Venezuelan people remain without justice or guarantees of non-repetition, warned Amnesty International today."

Hear @alexneve.bsky.social describe the need to renew universal human rights through the lens of injustice inflicted on Hassan Diab - go to justiceforhassandiab.org

Important read from @alexneve.bsky.social in the @hilltimes.com. As we witness a "live-streamed genocide" and rising global violence, Canada continues to send military technology to the U.S. w/zero human rights oversight. It’s time to close the U.S. loophole. 1/2 www.hilltimes.com/story/2026/0...

All political prisoners must be released in #Venezuela. No delays. No excuses. No exceptions.

It is terror, fascism, murder, racism & more. An unapologetic descent into full out war on the people, community, rule of law, accountability and basic notions of rights, justice and plain human decency. We are, everywhere, with Minneapolis in resistance.

Leaving the "old order" (never the vaunted edifice it is often spun to have been) behind cannot include selling universal human rights short. The "new order" must put rights at the fore. That is not altruistic idealism, it is vital and urgent necessity.

Kingston friends! And for that matter, Brockville, Gananoque, Napanee, Perth, Tyendinaga and beyond friends. I'm honoured to be delivering the Catriona Gibson Memorial Lecture at @queensulaw.bsky.social on February 3, 5:30 - 7 pm. Hope to see you there.

Deep gratitude to dear friends and treasured colleagues with the Centre for Peace at Canadian Memorial United Church in Vancouver for welcoming me to deliver one of their "Peace Talks" last night. So bolstered by the wonderful turnout and rich exchanges. Change is in our hands.

Thank you Gloria Macarenko for giving us the time we needed for this thoughtful @cbcradiocanada.bsky.social interview about human rights & peace in our world, in these agonizing times. Change is in our hands

“The world as it is, not as we wish it.” 🧵⬇️. 1/4

A ‘Board of Peace’ that has no representative of the people who crave that peace, and that is made up of human rights and international law violators from around the world? And not a single woman who knows enough about peace to be invited on ‘board’?

Looking forward to joining @jp-peacemaking.bsky.social and Penelope Simons for this timely & important webinar discussion about #Venezuela & human rights. Hope you can join us. Registration details below.

"The international community must take urgent diplomatic action to protect protesters from further massacres and confront the impunity that is driving the state policy of bloodshed." #IranProtests

Vancouver friends, do join us on Monday, January 19th at 7 pm. Needless to say, a crucial time to be coming together to talk about human rights in our world. Details here: www.canadianmemorial.org/blog/news/th...

Vancouver friends, do join us on Monday, January 19th at 7 pm. Needless to say, a crucial time to be coming together to talk about human rights in our world.

PM Carney is on his way to China today. The Canadian Coalition on Human Rights in China has urged that he put human rights at the centre of the Canada/China relationship.

"The cruel revolving door of detentions and releases must cease once and for all." #Venezuela

"Whatever the interests of other nations, the priority must be to listen to the voices of the millions of Iranians risking their lives in the streets for a democratic future..." - Shirin Ebadi and Payam Akhavan #IranProtests

Our statement re: prisoner releases in Venezuela. Release all political prisoners, full transparency about plans for further releases, dismantle country's repressive apparatus and practices. Bottom line: human rights must come first in Venezuela.

We must all add our voices to the courageous protesters out in the streets of Iran. They do not relent, no matter the cost. They grow bolder and more insistent. The terrifying, violent repression must stop. Their demands must be met. #IranProtests

#IranProtests Immense apprehension. A universe of solidarity.

US: Minneapolis Killing by ICE Unjustified www.hrw.org/news/2026/01...

"These decisions are not just cruel, racist and discriminatory, they will also no doubt prove to be devastatingly short-sighted by undermining the interests of people in the United States and around the world."

"People in #Iran daring to express their anger at decades of repression and demand fundamental change are once again being met with a deadly pattern of security forces unlawfully firing at, chasing, arresting and beating protesters, in scenes reminiscent of the Woman Life Freedom uprising of 2022."

Si les Vénézuéliens étaient la priorité.

“Amid ongoing violations against the Rohingya, the world must stand firm in the pursuit of justice and a path toward ending impunity in Myanmar and restoring our rights.” -- @waiwainu.bsky.social, Executive Director of the Women’s Peace Network

Says it all... Mr. Trump was asked... whether the two sides had discussed the release of political prisoners or the return of opposition politicians from exile. "We haven’t gotten to that yet. What we want to do now is fix up the oil."

"The world can and should stand with Iranians. But in the end, freedom is not bestowed from above, it is claimed from within: by those who risk everything to declare that they, and only they, will decide their destiny." Powerful from @smohyeddin.bsky.social.

"We cannot afford for our rights to be instrumentalised: invoked when they’re convenient, and vilified when they’re not."

Vancouver friends, hope you can join us for this event on Monday, January 21 at the Centre for Peace at Canadian Memorial United Church.

Our statement about the implications of the US attack in Venezuela. Maduro’s abysmal human rights record does not excuse breaching international law. Trump’s illegal invasion does not forgive Maduro’s grave human rights violations. What Venezuelans deserve is full respect for international law.

US Strikes Venezuela, Says it Will ‘Run’ Country www.hrw.org/news/2026/01...

There is so much in this magnificent inaugural address from Zohran Mamdani. What has stayed with me most of all, though, is this simple commitment; one that we should all make: "The only expectation I seek to reset is that of small expectations."

In 2025 #SaudiArabia set its highest record for the number of people executed in one year: 356. #AbolishTheDeathPenalty