The hereditary chiefs of the Wet’suwet’en Clans of British Columbia are protesting the British Columbia pipeline that is being built by the TransCanada subsidiary company Coastal GasLink. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) in British Columbia are carrying out an…
Commissioners: Margarette May Macaulay, Joel Hernández García, Esmeralda Arosemena de Troitiño, Antonia Urrejola Noguera Petitioners: Consejo Cívico de Organizaciones Populares e Indígenas de Honduras (COPINH); Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL) State: Honduras Topic: Honduras’ Implementation of Precautionary Measures…
The execution of a Filipina domestic worker in January is the latest in a long line of executions carried out by the Saudi Arabian government against domestic migrant workers mostly from the Philippines and Indonesia. The execution of the thirty-nine…
In Syria, there are no clear “winners” of the nearly eight-year war. As information makes its way out of the region from survivors, smugglers, activists, medical personnel, and journalists, it is evident that the atrocities are immeasurable. There is no…
Commissioners: Margarette May Macaulay; Esmeralda Arosemena de Troitiño (not present); Luis Ernesto Vargas Silva (not present); Francisco José Eguiguren Praeli (Rapporteur for State of Colombia); Joel Hernández García; Antonia Urrejola Noguera; and Flávia Piovesan (not present) Other: Soledad García Muñoz (Special Rapporteur…