With a ninth province now indicating it will stop housing immigration detainees in its jails, advocates and lawyers say there needs to be a focus on community-based alternatives that respect the human rights and dignity of those individuals.
Amnesty International cuts ties with U of T due to ongoing scandal
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Renowned international human rights advocacy organization Amnesty International has dramatically ended a four-year-long relationship with the University of Toronto over an ongoing controversy in which the institution is accused of not hiring a certain candidate due to her views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Scholar Valentina Azarova was up for the job of director of U of T s International Human Rights Program (IHRP), and was apparently the strong, unanimous and enthusiastic first choice of the hiring team, said a Supreme Court justice who was probing the incident.