Guarantees Crucial Rights, but Gaps Remain Human Rights Watch Kuwaiti legislators’ adoption on June 24, 2015, of a new law giving domestic workers enforceable labor rights is a major breakthrough that should lead other Gulf states to take similar action. Kuwaiti authorities should rigorously carry out the new law and address remaining legal and policy gaps that discriminate against domestic …

Liberal support for bill moves some votes to NDP In a random sampling of public opinion taken by the Forum Poll™ among 1268 Canadian voters, almost equal proportions support (39%) and oppose (41%) Bill C-51, the new anti-terrorism legislation. It must be noted that fully one fifth of voters have no opinion on this hotly contested issue (20%). Support for …

A mosque in Mississauga, Canada, donated thousands of dollars to help a  Catholic church in the area needed a clean up after an acts of vandalism. imam of the Sayeda Khadija Centre in Mississauga  Hamid Slimi  visited St. Catherine of Siena Roman Catholic Church after the incident. The church’s Father Camillo Lando showed him the acts of  vandalism that had …

the Kuwaiti Ambassador  to Canada Hussein Al-Sammak announced that Kuwaiti Government   has donated  a one million Canadian dollars (807000 $) to constructs a new Islamic centre in Toronto, Canada.   the ambassador  said that the Kuwaiti diplomatic mission handed over the donation to “Alfajr Institute of Islamic Sciences in Toronto” to build a new  centre will be named “the State …

Your Voice is a non-partisan voter education and motivation campaign aiming to inform Canadian Arabs across the country about their right and responsibility to vote, and encourage them to engage in the country’s democratic process. WHY THIS CAMPAIGN?  AN EMERGING COMMUNITY In 2010, Arab immigration to Canada reached an all-time high, with the arrival of 34,657 citizens of Arab countries, Arab immigrants …

As the country prepares to celebrate Canada Day, the Canadian Arab Institute today shares with Canadians an Arabic and a trilingual (English, French, Arabic) version of the Canadian national anthem. Sung by soprano Miriam Khalil, Ya Canada is an expression of pride in our citizenship, and a commitment to our vision for an empowered and engaged community in an inclusive …

 By: Samer Muscati  Human Rights Watch  The nightmare of 12-year-old “Jalila” began when Islamic State fighters abducted her, along with her family, in northern Iraq. They separated her from her family and imprisoned her in a house in north-eastern Syria with other abducted Yezidi women and girls. Then the jihadist fighters came, one after another, to inspect them. One singled …

By: Jonathan Cook  Experience should have proved that one has to be credulous in the extreme – or brainwashed by Zionism – to take seriously “rebuttals” by the Israeli army of evidence of its abuses and war crimes. But for any who still harbour suspicions that claims by the Israeli army aren’t simply self-serving deceptions, take a look at its latest report into last year’s …

On Thursday, the UNHCR released its latest report ” The UNHCR’s annual Global Trends Report: World at War”.  it said that worldwide displacement was at the highest level ever recorded. And the number of people who forced to displaced at 2014 rose to 59.5 million compared to 51.2 million a year earlier. It also showed that over half the world’s …

The federal government says it will table a new legislation requiring members of the public to show their faces at citizenship ceremonies. The bill will ban face coverings, like niqab. Conservative Ministers Denis Lebel and Tim Uppal announced lately the law, after the Liberal government in Quebec introduced the “Bill 62” which would ban face covering veils among civil servants …