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Open Letter: Human Rights NGOs Deplore Politically-Motivated Claims Aimed at Discrediting Human Rights Defenders

1 February 2010

The Board of Directors of Rights & Democracy, a not-for-profit organization created by Canada’s parliament in 1988 to encourage and support human rights around the world, recently voted, with substantial objection, to repudiate grants given to Al Haq and Al Mezan Centre for Human Rights, two …Continue reading


Feb 1st, repeated Feb 3rd - Palestine and Israel: A hard look at the facts on the ground

An NCCAR Webinar:   February 1st or 3rd, 2010

Palestine and Israel:
A hard look at the facts on the ground

 

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NCCAR Warns of Discrimination and Damage From New Screening Procedures

News Release

NCCAR Warns of Discrimination and Damage From New Screening Procedures

Ottawa, ON, 8 January, 2010 – The National Council on Canada-Arab Relations (NCCAR) is concerned about new ”country-of-origin”  screening measures by the United States that will negatively impact Canadians. These measures will likely mean …Continue reading


NCCAR's Rula Odeh Wins Changes in CBC Policy

Win to provide better reporting of the Israeli-Palestinian issue on CBC

NCCAR’s President, Rula Odeh, recently challenged the CBC through its ombudsman on a report about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that contained a number of flaws. Through a methodical, researched and persistent effort, Ms. Odeh …Continue reading


UN Struggles to Meet Needs of Refugees, published, Bahija Réghaï

UN struggles to meet needs of refugees

By Bahija Réghaï

December 17, 2009

Published on Rabble.ca

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Established 60 years ago, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) is now more relevant than ever, both as the purveyor of essential education, health and relief services and as a reminder to the international community of unfulfilled …Continue reading


NCCAR Commemorates International Human Rights Day

Statement

NCCAR Commemorates the

proclamation of the Universal

Declaration of Human Rights

Today, December 10th, is International Human Rights Day. Sixty-one years go, on December 10th, 1948, the peoples of the world, …Continue reading


NCCAR Applauds Canadian Parliamentarians For Their Recommendations on Palestine

NCCAR applauds Canadian parliamentarians who traveled to the West Bank and Gaza in August on a humanitarian fact-finding mission in order to assess the humanitarian situation there and gain first hand knowledge and understanding to bring back to Parliament and Canadians. NCCAR welcomes their report and recommendations.

NCCAR had actively …Continue reading


Al-Jazeera English Approved; NCCAR Recognized

National Council on Canada-Arab Relations | Conseil National des Relations Canado-Arabes

News Release

NCCAR Recognized For Its Role In Helping Bring Al-Jazeera English to Canada

Ottawa, ON, 26 November, …Continue reading

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