ICLMG News Digest is here!
We are pleased to send you the first edition of the ICLMG News Digest. Every week we will publish and distribute a retrospective of major news items regarding national security, anti-terrorism and other issues related to the mandate and concerns of ICLMG and its member organizations. We hope you will find it useful and we encourage you to share it widely within your networks.
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Petition launched by Romeo Dallaire: Bring back Omar Khadr
Canada must keep its word - and Minister Toews must authorize Omar Khadr's return without delay. A deal is a deal.
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Press Release
Omar Khadr
ICLMG and Lawyers' Rights Watch Canada - The UN Committee against torture recommends transfer to Canada and redress for human rights violations.
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Reports
Briefing to the Committee against Torture, 48th Session, May 2012 on the Omar Khadr case
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ICLMG Submission of Information to the Committee Against Torture (CAT) for the Examination of Canada's 6th Report
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ICLMG in the media
Notes detail Canada-U.S. plan to track refugees, travellers
The Canadian Press 11∕07∕2012 - Canada and the U.S. have appreciably different ways of dealing with some kinds of refugees, said Roch Tasse of the Ottawa-based International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group.
Travellers faced rude officers, incorrect accusations by border employees
The Canadian Press 04/09/2012 - Roch Tasse, the national co-ordinator of ICLMG, said the complaints system should be shifted to an independent agency and more complete descriptions provided to the public.
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