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- EVENT: Water Justice in the Americas Symposium | Simposio Justicia Hídrica en las Américas (14 June 2023)
- Eden Fine Day: her music, language and Canada’s ‘residential schools’ (19 January 2022)
- MRG joins civil society call for the UN to investigate systemic racism in the police in the US, and to monitor this phenomenon globally (10 May 2021)
- A welcome judgment but not yet justice (21 April 2021)
- MRG hails UN report on Islamophobia (3 March 2021)
- MRG condemns ongoing violence against Mi’kmaq fishermen and calls on Canadian authorities to protect their rights (22 October 2020)
- HRC45 – MRG calls for attention on how technology replicates and amplify structural racism in law enforcement (1 October 2020)
- HRC45 – MRG joins ACLU’s demands to the OHCHR for the elaboration of the report on structural racism and law enforcement (1 October 2020)
- HRC44 – MRG’s participation in the UN panel on digital technologies and human rights (8 July 2020)
- HRC43 – Urgent debate – MRG calls for independent investigations into racist police brutality in the USA and for strong UN action to eradicate systemic racism in law enforcement at the global level (18 June 2020)
- HRC43 – Urgent debate – MRG joins ACLU’s call for UN investigation into systemic racism in law enforcement in the USA (18 June 2020)
- HRC43 – “Our inability to achieve racial justice kills” (16 June 2020)
- MRG joins ACLU, families of victims and 600 NGOs to call for UN scrutiny on racism and police brutality in the USA (8 June 2020)
- In the Name of George (4 June 2020)
- Responding to Canada’s Genocide Against Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls: A Settler Roadmap (4 June 2019)
- US blocking of Gay McDougall for UN anti-racism committee is a major setback for the fight against racism, says MRG (17 April 2019)
- The Deportation of Iraqi Citizens from the US: a Legal and Moral Question (27 September 2017)
- MRG calls on President Trump to stop enabling racism and hate attacks in the US (17 August 2017)
- Trump travel ban is ‘wrong in law and wrong in fact’, MRG says (30 January 2017)
- Trump executive order on controversial oil pipeline ‘deeply disappointing’ but ‘no surprise,’ says MRG (26 January 2017)
- MRG gravely concerned that hate speech during the Trump campaign represents a ‘clear and imminent’ threat towards minorities worldwide (21 November 2016)
- #BlackLivesMatter shines a spotlight on ‘what African Americans had known all along’ (28 September 2016)
- ‘Life at the Margins’ – new story pack on multiple forms of discrimination faced by minorities and indigenous peoples (8 March 2016)
- Part 1: How to Skin a Porcupine (2 May 2012)
- What the obituaries overlooked about Gerald Ford (4 January 2007)
- Gosselin (Tutor of) v. Quebec (Attorney General, Supreme Court of Canada ) (1 March 2005)
- Doucet-Boudreau v. Nova Scotia (Minister of Education ) (6 November 2003)
- Grutter v. Bollinger (No. 02-241) (23 June 2003)
- Gratz v. Bollinger (No. 02-516) (23 June 2003)
- Campaign for Fiscal Equity v. State of New York (719 N.Y.S.2d 475) (9 January 2001)
All publications
- Canada: Oil sands and ongoing Indigenous Peoples’ health rights violations (2023)
- United States: No end in sight to the Jackson water crisis? (2023)
- Mexico: Zapotec water rights and self-governance – a positive precedent for water justice (2023)
- United States: For Black Americans, unionization continues to offer the hope of better working conditions (2022)
- Mexico: Shifting the axis – the need to ensure Indigenous concerns as the new standard of leadership in climate talks (2022)
- Canada: The exploitation of Mexican and Caribbean migrant workers in Ontario’s agricultural sector (2022)
- Minority and Indigenous Trends 2021 – Canada: Essential, but unprotected – Toronto’s racialized labour force (2021)
- Minority and Indigenous Trends 2021 – Canada: Indigenous health governance during COVID-19 (2021)
- Minority and Indigenous Trends 2021 – United States: For decades, Black Americans have been living through a public health crisis (2021)
- United States: Equitable smart city design in San Francisco (2020)
- United States: ‘If we continue to place our own individuality at the centre of our existence we will collapse on ourselves’ (2020)
- Canada: ‘Some people say it’s going to be indigenous people to stop climate change, but it will take every single person, not just indigenous people.’ (2019)
- United States: Hurricane Katrina hit minorities in New Orleans hardest – and without effective intervention the next disaster will do so again (2019)
- Canada: ‘Everything is Interconnected – if you remove one element the other topple over.’ (2019)
- United States: Against a backdrop of growing hostility, undocumented migrants in Oregon are taking a stand (2018)
- Canada and the United States: The continued struggle of indigenous communities to defend their lands (2018)
- Haitian Refugees in the U.S. (1982)
- French Canada in Crisis: A New Society in the Making? (1980)
- Canada’s Indians (1974)
- Race and Law in Britain and the United States (1970)
- Puerto Ricans in the US (1970)
- The original Americans: U.S. Indians (1970)
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Advocacy statements
- MRG joins civil society call for the UN to investigate systemic racism in the police in the US, and to monitor this phenomenon globally
- MRG hails UN report on Islamophobia
- HRC45 – MRG calls for attention on how technology replicates and amplify structural racism in law enforcement
- HRC45 – MRG joins ACLU’s demands to the OHCHR for the elaboration of the report on structural racism and law enforcement
- HRC44 – MRG’s participation in the UN panel on digital technologies and human rights
- HRC43 – Urgent debate – MRG calls for independent investigations into racist police brutality in the USA and for strong UN action to eradicate systemic racism in law enforcement at the global level
- HRC43 – Urgent debate – MRG joins ACLU’s call for UN investigation into systemic racism in law enforcement in the USA
- HRC43 – “Our inability to achieve racial justice kills”
- MRG joins ACLU, families of victims and 600 NGOs to call for UN scrutiny on racism and police brutality in the USA
Events
- EVENT: Water Justice in the Americas Symposium | Simposio Justicia Hídrica en las Américas
- Eden Fine Day: her music, language and Canada’s ‘residential schools’
Key legal cases
- Gosselin (Tutor of) v. Quebec (Attorney General, Supreme Court of Canada )
- Doucet-Boudreau v. Nova Scotia (Minister of Education )
- Grutter v. Bollinger (No. 02-241)
- Gratz v. Bollinger (No. 02-516)
- Campaign for Fiscal Equity v. State of New York (719 N.Y.S.2d 475)
News and blogs
- Responding to Canada’s Genocide Against Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls: A Settler Roadmap
- The Deportation of Iraqi Citizens from the US: a Legal and Moral Question
- #BlackLivesMatter shines a spotlight on ‘what African Americans had known all along’
- Part 1: How to Skin a Porcupine
Opinion
Press releases
- US blocking of Gay McDougall for UN anti-racism committee is a major setback for the fight against racism, says MRG
- MRG calls on President Trump to stop enabling racism and hate attacks in the US
- Trump travel ban is ‘wrong in law and wrong in fact’, MRG says
- Trump executive order on controversial oil pipeline ‘deeply disappointing’ but ‘no surprise,’ says MRG
- MRG gravely concerned that hate speech during the Trump campaign represents a ‘clear and imminent’ threat towards minorities worldwide
- ‘Life at the Margins’ – new story pack on multiple forms of discrimination faced by minorities and indigenous peoples
- What the obituaries overlooked about Gerald Ford
Statements
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Publications
- Canada: Oil sands and ongoing Indigenous Peoples’ health rights violations
- United States: No end in sight to the Jackson water crisis?
- Mexico: Zapotec water rights and self-governance – a positive precedent for water justice
- Haitian Refugees in the U.S.
- French Canada in Crisis: A New Society in the Making?
- Canada’s Indians
- Race and Law in Britain and the United States
- Puerto Ricans in the US
- The original Americans: U.S. Indians