JHR Concordia : Scholarship announcement

JHR Concordia : Scholarship announcement

Damiano Raveenthiran | JHR President JHR Concordia’s president: Damiano Raveenthiran announced a Human RIghts Documentary scholarship to the Concordia community during an event to commemorate Malcolm X’s legacy on February 15th, 2013. The scholarship was made possible thanks to a collaboration between JHR Concordia, CODOC and ASFA. In March 2012, Damiano Raveenthiran, at the time … Continue reading »

RIGHTS WATCH COLUMN: The symbolic trial of Efrain Rios Montt

RIGHTS WATCH COLUMN: The symbolic trial of Efrain Rios Montt

Brendan Adams | Contributor Originally published in The Concordian : http://theconcordian.com/2013/02/jhr-the-symbolic-trial-of-efrain-rios-montt/ The trial of former Guatemalan President, Efrain Rios Montt, for murder and crimes against humanity has people talking. As Amy Ross pointed out in her opinion piece for Al-Jazeera, this is the first time that any former head of state has been prosecuted by their own … Continue reading »

FEATURE: Syrian hearts in Montreal

FEATURE: Syrian hearts in Montreal

Shereen Ahmed Rafea | VP Communications Three Syrian Canadians are facing everyday life, with a war in the background.  Each of them have day jobs, families and friends. Along with several other people, they began collecting money, selling art and gathering funds to send abroad to stranded Syrians. However, the situation in Syria kept escalating … Continue reading »

POETRY: Child Soldiers – Human Rights Lit.

POETRY: Child Soldiers – Human Rights Lit.

Written by: Lee-Ann Mudaly Dum-taka-tak, off in the distance Dum-dum-taka-tak Doom! Ominously growing louder, We hear that sound bellow (within) the core of reddened African earth Doom! Thunderous roaring beat from the depths, Da-dum. Da-dum. From one to all Resonating deep within the soul of a world no longer united. Da-dum. Da-Dum. Life. Breath. Exhale. … Continue reading »

GRAPH: College Isn’t cheap

GRAPH: College Isn’t cheap

Featured Infographic by: FrugalDad There are dozens of benefits that justify earning a higher education, including–but by no means limited to–better employment prospects, access to jobs with higher pay and the broadening of a college student’s social and mental horizons. Even so, approximately one in two high school graduates choose to forgo these potential benefits … Continue reading »

GRAPH : Enemies of the Internet

GRAPH : Enemies of the Internet

Featured infographic by OpenSite -If you think that identity theft is the worst-case-scenario of Internet use, you clearly don’t live in any of the nations that make the list of top “Enemies of the Internet.” Not only do these governments monitor their citizens’ web activity, but they also make it nearly impossible for them to … Continue reading »

OpEd: Why Canada should stay out of Mali

OpEd: Why Canada should stay out of Mali

Athena Tacet | Print Coordinator Mali is in the middle of a civil war. But, it isn’t Canada’s war. For more than a year, conflicts between the central government and Islamist factions in Northern Mali including al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (Aqmi) and the Touareg-led Ansari Dine, have threatened the country’s stability. Last January 10, … Continue reading »

OPINIONS: The 2012 Record

OPINIONS: The 2012 Record

Athena Tacet | Print Coordinator Human Rights in Greece: 2012 Review “The Athens I love is not the one which is wronging me now, but that one in which I used to have secure enjoyment of my rights as a citizen,” Alcibiades, Thucydides, Peloponnesian War. The word “Europe” takes its roots back to the Ancient … Continue reading »