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Abortion Stays Legal - Bill C-43 was defeated in 1991, keeping abortion legal in Canada. (CX5076).
Amnesty: The Inside Story - How does Amnesty International obtain its information? (CX4720).
Ask yourself...Do You Really Want More Censorship? - Censorship is dangerous and feminists who support it are wrong-headed. (CX4352).
The Capital Punishment Debate - Capital punishment make us all complicit in killing, and degrades us as a society. (CX5284). Also available in French and Spanish.
Countering Zionist propaganda about Hizbullah and Lebanon - By Henry Lowi. Nothing will change until the people of Palestine, Arabs and Jews, rise up to change the rules of the game, and rebuild the country on a new basis that respects democracy and human rights and good-neighbourly relations. July 18, 2006. (CX5268)
Do I Divest? - By Archbishop Desmond Tutu. If apartheid ended, so can this occupation, but the moral force and international pressure will have to be just as determined. November 2002. (CX5280).
Does The US Military Want To Kill Journalists? - Are the killings of journalists by the U.S. merely accidents, or are they deliberate? (CX5329).
Execution Day in Zhengzhou - A first-hand account of an execution day. (CX5051).
Freedom
of Speech Under Siege - Censorship is the
handmaiden of a police state. (CX5323).
Introduction
to the Human Rights, Civil Liberties section of the Connexions Annual
Israeli violations of human rights and international humanitarian law in the occupied Palestinian territories - Speech by Professor Jeff Halper, Coordinator Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions. Halper focuses on the fact that "virtually all of Israel's occupation of Palestinian lands violates human rights conventions and especially the Fourth Geneva Convention that forbids an occupying power from making its presence a permanent one." June 20, 2002. (CX5255).
Libel law is dangerous - Libel laws threaten freedom of speech. (CX4353).
New Approach to Crime: Blame The Victim Instead - Blaming the victims of sexual assault. (CX5033).
No Action on Human Rights - The Mulroney Tories are doing nothing at all about human rights. (CX4171).
Quest for Justice - Judith Stone, an American Jew, argues that Jews of conscience must support the right of return of the Palestinian people. November 2002. (CX5256).
Radio Frequency ID Removes Freedom - Radio Frequency ID violates the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and is part of the stealthy forging of a police state. (CX5361).
Rejected for Jury Duty - Discussing the effectiveness of the policies of the "war on drugs" -- in the courtroom. (CX5045).
A reply to B'nai Brith's "Manifesto Denouncing CUPE-Ontario's Boycott of Israel" - By the Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid. June 3, 2006. (CX5278).
Responsible Speech and Acceptable Truths
April 1, 2008. A statement on responsible free speech and the debate about Israel Apartheid Week on university campuses.
Right to Life? Ghouls and the Schiavo Case - Exploiting the Terri Schiavo tragedy. (CX5347).
The Right to Offend - Humans have a right to offend other humans, especially in presenting dissent from the views with which many people seem to be very content. This includes those views called religious.. (CX4174).
Right-Wing Thought Police Assault Free Speech on Campus - The Orwellian campaign to portray the expression of views in the university that run contrary to those ruling the country as a lack of "academic freedom." (CX5348).
Rights & Liberties - Introduction to the Connexions Digest #41 (Volume 9, No. 2) Also available in Spanish.
Sanctions Against the Israeli Occupation: It's Time - A call from the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) for sanctions as the next logical step in the global campaign to end the Occupation. January 29, 2005. (CX5281).
South African trade union congress supports CUPE boycott of Israel - South African workers will never forget the support given by the Israeli state to the apartheid South African regime. In the same way we will never forget the thousands of acts of solidarity of ordinary citizens around the world who sustained our struggle through the boycott weapon. June 6, 2006. (CX5270).
A Story About Making a Sex Movie - Politicians try to impose censorship by the back door, by imposing record-keeping obligations that are impossible to comply with. (CX5359).
Telling it Like It Isn't - By Robert Fisk. Let's call a colony a colony, let's call occupation what it is, let's call a wall a wall. December 28, 2005. (CX5273).
The Threat of The Tag - Tracking anklets for convicts are not a good way to alleviate prison overcrowding. (CX5038).
Throw it in the garbage myself - Let us decide for ourselves which books are trash. (CX4350).
With a little help from outside - By Gideon Levy. The world sees a great and ongoing injustice. They want a just Israel. They see an Israel that occupies and is clearly unjust, and they believe they should do something. We should thank them for this from the bottom of our hearts. June 12, 2006. (CX5271).
Women and Censorship - Pornography, its impact on women and arguments for and against censorship. (CX5056).
Words Have Failed - By Amira Hass. The written word is a failure at making tangible to Israeli readers the true horror of the Occupation. March 3, 2004. (CX5272)
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