Canadian Lawyers for International Human Rights (CLAIHR) has been promoting international human rights from a uniquely Canadian perspective since 1992.  We host events, advocate for policy reform, and serve as a Friend of the Court when matters of international human rights arise.

What’s New

• CLAIHR appeals to UN, IACHR Rapporteurs on repression of pro-Palestinian speech – for more see here.

• Read our shadow report to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women for Canada’s periodic review in October 2024

• We’re suing the federal government over illegal arms exports to Israel. Read more about the case here.

• CLAIHR, Al-Haq – Law in the Service of Man, Ayman Oweida and a confidential Palestinian asylum seeker joint letter to Federal Government on Arms Exports to Israel Violating Canadian and International Law 

Climate Change Litigation in Canada

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Corporations as Good Citizens: Can respect for human rights and the environment be good business?

Wednesday April 20, […]

804, 2024

Coalition of Canadian Human Rights Lawyers Urges Canada to Suspend Existing Permits and Close All Loopholes in Arms Trade with Israel

On March 5, 2024, CLAIHR initiated legal proceedings together with Al-Haq – Law in the […]

1701, 2024

Why Working to Uphold International Human Rights in Israel and Occupied Palestine is Important to Me

by Karen Segal

Today, CLAIHR has announced the formation of an ad hoc Working Group on […]

305, 2021

THE COVID-19 CRISIS: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS SHOULD NOT SUPERSEDE THE RIGHT TO HEALTH

Could you patent the sun? – Polio vaccine inventor, Jonas Saulk 

By Harmit Sarai and Karen […]