• Executive Director, The Montréal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, Concordia University
Le président chinois Xi Jinping et son homologue russe Vladimir Poutine portent un toast lors de leur dîner au Kremlin, à Moscou, en mars 2023. (Pavel Byrkin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Voici comment contenir la Chine et la Russie, superpuissances frappées d’allégations d’atrocités

Deux membres du Conseil de sécurité des Nations unies – la Chine et la Russie – sont soupçonnés d’avoir perpétré de graves atrocités. Voici comment la communauté internationale doit agir.
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin toast during their dinner at the Kremlin in Moscow in March 2023. (Pavel Byrkin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

4 ways to rein in China and Russia, alleged superpower perpetrators of atrocity crimes

The spectacle of two UN Security Council members — China and Russia — allegedly perpetrating mass atrocity crimes is deeply troubling. Here’s how the international community must step up.
The skyline of Tehran. (Shutterstock)

Why the West must challenge Iran on human rights

Iran’s ongoing legal campaign to persecute marginalized groups highlights the pressing need to include human rights in any bilateral and multilateral negotiations over the nuclear deal.
Sur cette photo de décembre 2019, on voit des personnes masquées à Hong Kong lors d'un rassemblement pour soutenir les Ouïghours et leur lutte pour les droits de la personne en Chine. AP Photo/Lee Jin-man

La Chine ne doit pas façonner l’avenir des droits de la personne à l’ONU

Dans les mois à venir, la Chine aura le pouvoir de nommer ou non des enquêteurs mondiaux de l'ONU sur la liberté d'expression, les disparitions forcées, la détention arbitraire et la santé.
In this December 2019 photo, people wearing masks in Hong Kong are seen during a rally to show support for Uighurs and their fight for human rights in China. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

China must not shape the future of human rights at the UN

In the coming months, China will have the power to appoint or nix global UN investigators on freedom of speech, enforced disappearances, arbitrary detention and health.
A U.S.-backed Syrian soldier reacts as an airstrike hits territory held by Islamic State militants outside Baghouz, Syria, in February 2019. The Islamic State group has been reduced from its self-proclaimed caliphate that once spread across much of Syria and Iraq at its height in 2014 to a speck of land on the countries’ shared border. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

The rout of ISIS gives the world an opportunity to defeat its ideology

Only by prosecuting extremists will the world be able to marginalize those who carry out violent acts and those who give credence to their ideas.
Nadia Murad, co-récipiendaire du Prix Nobel de la Paix 2018, lors de la conférence de presse du National Press Club de Washington, D.C., le 8 octobre 2018. (AP Photos)

Le Canada doit engager des poursuites judiciaires contre les combattants de l’EI qui rentrent au pays

Si le Canada prend vraiment au sérieux les règles de justice internationale, les droits de la personne et l'ordre international, il doit poursuivre en justice ses citoyens qui ont combattu pour l'EI.
Residents stand near rescued Rohingya men after they were brought ashore by local fishermen in Kuala Idi, Aceh province, Indonesia on Dec. 4, 2018. A wooden boat carrying the hungry and weak Rohingya Muslims, forced to flee Myanmar and Bangladesh, was found adrift. (AP Photo/Iskandar Ishak)

The world’s disturbing inaction as the Genocide Convention turns 70

The UN’s Genocide Convention turns 70 this month. It’s time for the world to reaffirm its commitment to the international law and show the moral courage of our convictions.
Nadia Murad, co-recipient of the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize, listens to a question at a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 8, 2018. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Why Canada must prosecute returning ISIS fighters

If Canada truly stands for multiculturalism, pluralism, the rule of law, global justice, human rights and the liberal international order, we must prosecute our citizens who have fought with ISIS.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg takes his seat to testify on Capitol Hill in Washington in April 2018 about the use of Facebook data to target American voters in the 2016 election. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Big Tech is overselling AI as the solution to online extremism

Many tech titans say they can self-regulate online hate speech and extremism with artificial intelligence, but can they?

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