Exploring Theme: "Legislative and Institutional Issues"

APTN News: A Mi’kmaw mother in Eskasoni is demanding answers about why her daughter died in a Nova Scotia jail. Sarah Denny, 36, a mother of two, was serving a sentence for violating her house arrest. On March 26, she died at the Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility, a jail for women in Dartmouth, NS,...

NationTalk – 24 civil society groups attending the third ever meeting of Federal, Provincial, Territory Ministers responsible for human rights “condemned the obstructive attitude of some governments” in advancing international human rights obligations. Groups had pressed governments to commit to nation-wide law reform that will legally require governments to adopt a collaborative, accountable, consistent, transparent,...