The Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights

05/28/2026

Aujourd’hui, les membres de la Coalition canadienne sur les droits humains en ont adressé une lettre ouverte à la ministre des Affaires étrangères Anita Anand avant sa rencontre avec le ministre chinois des Affaires étrangères Wang Yi.

Nous demandons au gouvernement canadien :
- De soulever les cas de Jimmy Lai, Huseyin Celil et du Dr Wang Bingzhang;
- De répondre à la campagne de répression transnationale menée par Pékin au Canada; et
- De rendre public le protocole d’entente policier conclu avec le ministère chinois de la Sécurité publique afin qu’il fasse l’objet d’un examen public et parlementaire complet.

À moins que Pékin ne soit tenu de démontrer du respect et de la réciprocité — notamment par la libération de Jimmy Lai, Huseyin Celil et du Dr Wang Bingzhang — les violations du droit canadien soutenues par l’État risquent seulement de s’intensifier.

Les Canadiens vivant sous la longue portée de Pékin méritent transparence, protection et leadership de principe.

Lire notre lettre complète ici :

https://www.raoulwallenbergcentre.org/fr/nouvelles/2026-05-28

Today, members of the Canadian Coalition on Human Rights in sent an open letter to Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand ahead of her meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi.

We urged the Canadian government to:
- Raise the cases of Jimmy Lai, Huseyin Celil, and Dr. Wang Bingzhang;
- Confront Beijing’s campaign of transnational repression in Canada; and
- Release the government’s policing MOU with China’s Ministry of Public Security for full public and parliamentary scrutiny.

Unless Beijing is required to demonstrate respect and reciprocity — including through the release of Jimmy Lai, Huseyin Celil, and Dr. Wang Bingzhang — we believe that its state-supported violations of Canadian law will likely only intensify.

Canadians living under Beijing’s long reach deserve transparency, protection, and principled leadership.

Read our full letter here:

https://www.raoulwallenbergcentre.org/en/news/2026-05-28

05/28/2026

Today, members of the Canadian Coalition on Human Rights in sent an open letter to Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand ahead of her meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi.

We urged the Canadian government to:
- Raise the cases of Jimmy Lai, Huseyin Celil, and Dr. Wang Bingzhang;
- Confront Beijing’s campaign of transnational repression in Canada; and
- Release the government’s policing MOU with China’s Ministry of Public Security for full public and parliamentary scrutiny.

Unless Beijing is required to demonstrate respect and reciprocity — including through the release of Jimmy Lai, Huseyin Celil, and Dr. Wang Bingzhang — we believe that its state-supported violations of Canadian law will likely only intensify.

Canadians living under Beijing’s long reach deserve transparency, protection, and principled leadership.

Read our full letter here:

https://www.raoulwallenbergcentre.org/en/news/2026-05-28

05/27/2026

Pour la première fois depuis sa libération, Vladimir Kara-Murza, leader de l'opposition russe et citoyen d'honneur canadien, sera de retour au Canada ce jeudi 28 mai pour témoigner devant la commission des affaires étrangères de la Chambre des communes au sujet du projet de .

Il sera rejoint virtuellement par Sir Bill Browder, PDG d’Hermitage Capital, responsable de la campagne Global Magnitsky Justice et auteur de Red Notice, qui s’exprimera en faveur du projet de loi.

Les dispositions les plus importantes du projet de loi C-219 comprennent :

- Faire de la répression transnationale une infraction passible de sanctions ;
- Imposer au gouvernement l’obligation de rendre compte publiquement du nombre de prisonniers d’opinion dans le monde et des juridictions qui les emprisonnent, ainsi que de la manière dont le Canada les soutient, le cas échéant ; et
- Renommer la Loi sur les mesures économiques spéciales en l’honneur de Sergueï Magnitski.

Pour en savoir plus et regarder leur témoignage, cliquez ici :

https://www.raoulwallenbergcentre.org/fr/nouvelles/2026-05-27

05/27/2026

For the first time since his release, Vladimir Kara-Murza, Russian opposition leader and Canadian Honorary Citizen, will be back in Canada this Thursday, May 28, to testify before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on .

He will be joined virtually by Sir Bill Browder, CEO Hermitage Capital, Head of Global Magnitsky Justice campaign, and Author of Red Notice, speaking in support of the Bill.

Bill C-219's most significant provisions include:

- Making transnational repression a sanctionable offence;
- Creating public reporting requirements for the Government on the numbers and imprisoning jurisdictions of prisoners of conscience around the world, and whether/how Canada is supporting them; and
- Renaming the Special Economic Measures Act after Sergei Magnitsky.

Learn more and tune in here:

https://www.raoulwallenbergcentre.org/en/news/2026-05-27

05/25/2026

La Cour suprême du Canada a rendu sa décision dans l'affaire , une affaire décisive portant sur la violence conjugale et le contrôle coercitif, dans laquelle le CRWDP était intervenu.

La Cour a reconnu un nouveau délit civil lié à la violence entre partenaires intimes.

En février 2025, Angela Marinos, avocate générale en chef du CRWDP, a comparu devant la Cour suprême du Canada dans cette affaire afin de faire valoir les multiples obligations du Canada en matière de droit international relatives aux droits des femmes, notamment le droit de vivre à l’abri de la violence familiale.

Notre mémoire analysait également la manière dont les obligations du Canada en vertu du droit international ont été prises en compte dans la jurisprudence nationale en matière de droit de la famille, et replaçait ces obligations dans le contexte plus large de l'engagement déclaré du Canada à mettre en œuvre un programme politique féministe, qui comprend la lutte contre la violence sexiste.

https://www.raoulwallenbergcentre.org/fr/nouvelles/2026-05-22

05/25/2026

The Supreme Court of Canada issued its decision in the pivotal case on domestic violence and coercive control, in which the RWCHR intervened.

The Court has recognized a new tort of intimate partner violence.

In February 2025, Angela Marinos, RWCHR Chief General Counsel, appeared before the SCC in that case to advance Canada’s multiple international law obligations on women’s rights, including the right to live free from domestic violence.

Our submission also analysed how Canada's international law obligations have been considered in domestic jurisprudence in the family law context, and situated these obligations within the broader context of Canada's stated commitment to implementing a feminist policy agenda, which includes combatting gender-based violence.

https://www.raoulwallenbergcentre.org/en/news/2026-05-22

05/22/2026

We are deeply alarmed by these reports of accelerating human rights attacks by Iranian authorities against its already severely persecuted Bahá’í population.

These latest cases - including that of a pregnant woman - are just a few of the almost 80 Bahá’ís who have faced detention, arrest, and imprisonment since the February outbreak of conflict.

Over 400 recent cases of state-sponsored human rights abuses against Bahá’ís across Iran, including arrests and detentions, violent home raids, unlawful property seizures, and obstructions to justice by judicial authorities, have been reported.

“Leadership is measured not by the power a government holds over its citizens, but by how it uses its resources to empower its people... Leadership should not be used to oppress people for their beliefs, their ethnicity, or their gender, or to use the fog of war as cover for grave human rights abuses.” — Simin Fahandej, Bahá’í International Community’s Representative to the United Nations in Geneva.

Boshra Mostafavi, a pregnant Bahá’í woman from Rafsanjan, southeast Iran, is among dozens of Bahá’ís detained and jailed in recent months, as the Islamic Republic pursues an escalating campaign of brutal persecution against the religious minority. Boshra is one of almost 80 Bahá’ís who h...

05/21/2026

En avril 2026, un tribunal au a condamné par contumace le Dr Nguyen Dinh Thang — défenseur des droits humains et dirigeant de la société civile — à onze ans de prison sur la base d’accusations de terrorisme fabriquées de toutes pièces.

Partenaire du CRWDP, Nguyen Dinh Thang est citoyen américain ainsi que directeur général et président de BPSOS, une organisation à but non lucratif vietnamo-américaine dédiée au soutien des réfugiés et demandeurs d’asile vietnamiens, des victimes de violations des droits humains au Vietnam et des survivants de la traite des êtres humains dans le monde entier.

Le 1er mai 2026, Kimberly Lenz du CRWDP s’est entretenue avec Hai Di Nguyen de BPSOS au sujet de cette condamnation absurde et de ses implications plus larges pour les droits humains et les droits des minorités au Vietnam.

https://www.raoulwallenbergcentre.org/fr/nouvelles/2026-05-10

05/21/2026

In April 2026, a court in sentenced Dr. Nguyen Dinh Thang – a human rights defender and civil society leader – in absentia to eleven years in prison on trumped up terrorism charges.

A partner to the RWCHR, Nguyen Dinh Thang is a US citizen and the CEO and President of BPSOS, a Vietnamese-American nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting Vietnamese refugees and asylum seekers, victims of human rights abuses in Vietnam, and survivors of human trafficking worldwide.

On May 1 2026, the RWCHR’s Kimberly Lenz spoke with Hai Di Nguyen of BPSOS about the absurd sentence and its wider implications for human rights and minority rights in Vietnam.

https://www.raoulwallenbergcentre.org/en/news/2026-05-10

05/15/2026

As highlighted in Neil Moss’ recent article on Parliament’s SDIR report on Sudan, Canada still lacks a meaningful response proportionate to the atrocities unfolding in .

The report made no concrete determination regarding the genocide unfolding in Sudan and, as Irwin Cotler said, “it did not even describe in full the horrific humanitarian catastrophe."

The RWCHR appeared before the SDIR and presented a comprehensive 10-point action plan urging Canada to move beyond rhetoric and take concrete action, including immigration and accountability measures, humanitarian leadership, and recognition of the genocide.

Since then, the plan has been endorsed by leading voices across the human rights, legal, humanitarian, and policy communities, reflecting a growing consensus that Canada must do more.

This was a missed opportunity. But it is not too late.

Canada still has a legal and moral responsibility to help lead the international response to the atrocities in Sudan.

The victims of Darfur and Sudan deserve the protection international law promises and the accountability justice demands.