Kathleen Ruff is a longtime human rights activist. She was the first director of the BC Human Rights Commission and director of the Canadian Court Challenges Program. She received the Canadian Public Health Association’s award of National Public Health Hero and the Appreciation Award from the Asian Citizens Center for Environmental Health.
It is not possible to say you support human rights and have a double standard, supporting human rights for some and denying human rights to others. Human rights are for all. Otherwise they are not human rights at all. When words contradict actions, it is the actions that speak the truth. The U.S. and Canadian governments constantly repeat that they support human rights and an international rules-based order. They do not. Their actions violate human rights and international law.
, and our European allies refuse to recognize the existence of Palestine. The CBC and virtually all the Canadian establishment media—despite being alerted and repeatedly requested to give coverage—gave no coverage of the fact that the Canadian government was lobbying the international court to deny Palestinians human rights under international law. The one exception was The Globe and Mail, which published this article.
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