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Why Europe Must List Hezbollah as a Terrorist Organization
July 20, 2013
On the first anniversary of the terrorist bombing of a tourist bus in Bulgaria, killing five Israelis and one Belgian, and wounding dozens more. Bulgarian authorities […] More »
Not Criminally Responsible? The Conservatives Are Not Interested
July 5, 2013
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/irwin-cotler/ncr-bill-canada_b_3512668.html Irwin Cotler Certain policies and pieces of legislation are inevitably divisive, and unavoidably create camps of passionate advocates and opponents. In and of itself, this […] More »
Syria and the Responsibility to Protect
June 27, 2013
The dramatic disclosure on Wednesday that over 100,000 have been killed in Syria – including as a result of crimes against humanity committed daily that, as the UN International Commission of Inquiry put it, must “shock” and “sear” the international conscience – seems neither to have shocked nor seared the international community, nor moved it to act to implement its responsibility to protect. More »
The Kind of Responsibility Canada Needs
June 20, 2013
Tuesday night the Conservatives ushered a number of fundamentally flawed pieces of legislation through the House of Commons--including Bill C-54, the Non-Criminally Responsible Reform Act -- as part of the unanimous consent motion to adjourn for the summer. More »