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Alicia-Marie LeJour is co-chair of the Black Diaspora Coalition in Ottawa. She says support for BIPOC communities in the wake of George Floyd s death has to be more than performative. (Submitted by Alicia-Marie LeJour)
One year after the killing of George Floyd, Black activists in Ottawa are toiling to remind Canadians to do more to fight racial injustice and police abuse of power not just in the capital, but across the country. George Floyd s death is just one anniversary that we cross, said Alicia-Marie Le Jour of the Black Diaspora Coalition in Ottawa. One officer has been convicted . this is merely accountability. Justice for us [as Black people] is not to have to experience [police brutality] again.
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Botched no-knock raids prompt calls to limit police tactic
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Police forces across Canada are conducting hundreds of no-knock raids each year to execute search warrants.2:01
Police forces across Canada are conducting hundreds of no-knock raids each year to execute search warrants despite growing concern about the trampling of charter rights, an investigation by CBC s
The Fifth Estate has found.
These raids, also called dynamic entries, involve heavily armed police barging into a home unannounced. Stun grenades that explode at ear-splitting decibels are often used.
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Implementation of the Geneva Resolution is an onerous task. It will encounter various challenges and dilemmas. It requires the establishment of institutional structures and national legislation to give effect to operative part of the Geneva Resolutions. Implementing legislation must not offend the 1978 Constitution and the 1976 Vienna Convention of the Law of Treaties (VCLT 1976)
The Geneva Resolutions
The Geneva Resolution can be classified as a non-treaty instrument. It is different from a treaty in many respects (Anthony Aust – Modern Treaty Practice). It does not require the consent of the State to be bound by such Resolutions. It has a preambular and operative part. It is likely to be interpreted in the same way as a treaty by reference to articles 31 and 32 of the VCLT 1969. It resembles the Resolutions of other UN Specialized Agencies such as IMO or ICAO which are of a binding nature.