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Source: Los Angeles Times | by Maggie Farley The secretary-general will name South African Judge Navanethem Pillay as the next U.N. human rights commissioner as early as today, diplomats and U.N. officials said Thursday. The daughter of a Tamil bus driver in Durban, she experienced human rights violations firsthand.

The illiberality of the liberal Canadian Human Rights Commission July 12th, 2008 Posted in News | Here is the letter dated July 6 that Bishop Frederick Henry sent to Premier Ed Stelmach of Alberta, in which the bishop asks for the repeal of a section of the territory’s Human Rights Act.

Silly Boys' Club: Steyn and CIC Insulting women is sport. Should I file our rights complaint?By Shannon Rupp

Human Rights Commission Drops Complaint Against Catholic Magazine July 5th, 2008 Posted in Freedom Of Speech, News, Religious Liberty | From LifeSite News TORONTO, July 4, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Canadian Human Rights Commission has dropped a complaint by a homosexual activist against Catholic Insight a Toronto-based national Catholic news magazine.

Anyone else incredulous at the story about the BC Human Rights Tribunal is going after a comedian after he rhetorically slapped down a couple of obnoxious hecklers at a Vancouver comedy show (See comedian Guy Earle’s description of the incident below)? Political correctness is clearly out of control in Canada.

Mark Steyn, the National Review reporter/commentator who was hauled before a British Columbian 'human rights' tribunal on charges of 'inciting Islamophobia' in an article he wrote for the magazine Mclean's, reports that his case has been dropped by the Canadian Human Rights Commission.

At our Thursday night Covenant Zone meeting we had a discussion of the latest thought crime: 'Anti-lesbian' remarks send comedian to human rights hearing. While some Covenanters think the public won't be receptive to the victim claims of some lesbians who apparently went to a comedy club and obnoxiously

Grab your Little Red Book the Cultural Revolution comes to Canada!!!! Posted in Politics with tags Bernie Farber, British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal, canada, Canadian Human Rights Commission, canadian politics, cultural revolution, Dean Steacy, Ed Stelmach, Ezra Levant, freedom of speech, Giacomo

The Kafkaesque Show Trial of Mark Steyn by Kathy Shaidle At a surreal tribunal last week, ancient liberties came under assault from the Canadian thought police.

By Bill Muehlenberg A case can be made that there is some sort of connection between the Judeo-Christian worldview, and basic Western goods, such as freedom of speech. And a case can also be made that there is a connection between the decline of the Judeo-Christian worldview and the decline in freedom of speech.