Human rights

More female peacekeepers essential to protect children in conflict zones

Bikini-clad girl on the beach is holding a smartphone with the OnlyFans app on the screen. Everything but the phone is in soft focus.

Canada must end financial discrimination against sex workers

The growing burden of sustainability standards

Illustration of a woman lying in a hospital bed. She’s on a ventilator, and her eyes are closed.

Reality, not religion, is the reason people need MAiD-free health care

Failure to protect: the criminalization of survivors of intimate-partner violence

Silhouette of a young woman in a sleeveless shirt, her hair tied in a bun.

Policing women’s sexuality in the name of protection

Au bout d'un court couloir se trouvent deux salles, chacune dotée d'une porte métallique gris foncé portant la mention " examen ". L'une est marquée d'un gros "4", l'autre d'un gros "5". Dans les deux cas, de petits paniers métalliques sont fixés pour contenir des dossiers.

Health care needs to extend to undocumented migrants

Environ 35 personnes se tiennent derrière une longue pancarte qu'elles tiennent à la main. La plupart d'entre elles ont le poing levé et toutes sourient. Derrière eux se trouve une collection de mâts de drapeaux étroitement espacés, portant les drapeaux colorés de nombreux pays. Tous pendent mollement. Derrière les drapeaux se trouve une rangée de palmiers.

Without fairness and finance, the energy transition won’t be fast

What’s at stake in supporting sex workers’ right to health

Several wings of the brick building are lined with evergreen hedges and small trees. At the top of one three-storey building, a white cross lets people know the hospital is faith-based.

Access to MAiD should not cater to faith-based interests

Boxing week sales should remind us of garment workers’ fight for a living wage

Dozens of partially built single-family two-storey homes sit tightly packed. Two of them have partial roofs built. Lumber is scattered around three of the houses, which are all clad in wood panels in the beginning stage of construction. A dirt road separates the homes in the foreground from seven homes on the other side of the street-to-be. In the distance is a green space.

The Liberal government’s unshakable support for private housing markets

Canada needs to stop doing more of the same in Haiti

The building is six storeys high and is covered in a white Tyvek-branded membrane. A metal pole is attached to one wall. A crane lift sits idle next to it. The building has corner balconies and inset balconies. The window frames are black. Tall trees stand nearby.

The double housing crisis needs a potluck approach

In a lab, a pair of hands in blue latex gloves holds an instrument that drops liquid into a clear shallow, round piece of plastic. Above the specimen is a machine with a tube aiming down. A rack holding several small tubes sits nearby.

Dismantling systemic ableism in health research

History isn’t repeating itself on LGBTQ rights. That is concerning.

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