http://www.tolerance.ca/Rubrique.aspx?ID=43&L=en Your Reaction Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:00:14 -0500 2010 Tolerance.ca en-ca http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=74446&L=en The International Campaign to close down Iranian Embassies would like to emphasize that the violation of human rights in Iran predates the election last June of Ahmadinejad. The report presented by the Britain, France, and the United States on February 15, 2010 is misleading by stressing the abuses only occurred after the election. Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 Your Reaction Homa Arjomand http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=74393&L=en By EveryOne Group URGENT CALL TO ACTION. TWO HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS FROM EVERYONE GROUP RECEIVE A PENAL ORDER(A CRIMINAL CONVICTION WITHOUT GOING TO TRIAL) FOR THEIR HUMANITARIAN WORK: "IT IS THE FIRST TIME IN THE WORLD"   Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 Your Reaction http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=74007&L=en On 11 February, Iran's regime came out en masse and brutally attacked protestors and arrested around 1,000 people in Tehran alone.   Sun, 14 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 Your Reaction Maryam Namazie http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=73457&L=en February 11 or 22 Bahman is the anniversary of the 1979 Iranian revolution – a left-leaning revolution against the Shah and for freedom and prosperity, which was crushed by the Islamic movement.   Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 Your Reaction Maryam Namazie http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=73204&L=en Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Al Haq, Al Mezan and B'Tselem have gained a reputation for their method of operation - develop a theory first, in their case "Israel is to blame" and then twist or invent the facts to fit the theory. The current round of polemicist attacks on the Tories seems inspired by this method of operation. If the facts cannot sustain their theory - a Conservative party hostile takeover of Rights and Democracy to pursue a right wing ideological agenda - then the facts must be changed to fit the theory.   Sun, 07 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 Your Reaction David Matas http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=72869&L=en The Board of Directors of Rights & Democracy, a not-for-profit organization created by Canada's parliament in 1988 to encourage and support human rights around the world, recently voted, with substantial objection, to repudiate grants given to Al-Haq and the Al-Mezan Centre for Human Rights, two well-known Palestinian human rights organizations located respectively in the West Bank and in Gaza.   Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 Your Reaction http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=72781&L=en I want everyone to remember two names - Mohammad Reza Ali Zamani and Arash Rahmanipour. They were two young men who were executed by the Islamic regime of Iran at dawn this past Thursday, January 28 for the ‘crime’ of ‘enmity against god’.   Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 Your Reaction Maryam Namazie http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=71414&L=en By Rabbi Michael Lerner The defeat of the Democrats choice to succeed Ted Kennedy in the U.S. Senate is being treated as though there is a decided shift of mass opinion to the Right in the U.S. But it is the Obama Administration, not the people who supported him in 2008, which moved to the Right--in the name of being pragmatists or realists-- in the process emptying their own agenda in regard to health care, environment, human rights, social and economic justice, and global peace of the critical elements that made those programs sound hopeful, and leaving many of their supporters feeling confused, disillusioned, and unable to rally around the politics that seemed so very far from "the change you can believe in" that we had been promised.   Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500 Your Reaction http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=70475&L=en by Maryam Namazie, Coordinator, Iran Solidarity   The escalation and radicalisation of protests in Iran against the Islamic Republic bring with it the hope for a very different world to the one we live in. Don’t forget, the suppression of the 1979 Iranian revolution by the Islamists changed the world we knew for the worse. This time round, the fall of the Islamists via a people’s revolution will change things for the better.   Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500 Your Reaction http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=69315&L=en by David Kilgour Based on the news emerging from Tehran, a second revolution could be in the making. While Iranians mourned their beloved Iman Hosein, the regime's response was to order its security forces to beat and kill fellow citizens. Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0500 Your Reaction http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=66891&L=en Canadians are asking Conservative Industry Minister Tony Clement to give the gift of the Open Internet this holiday season. A title wave of citizens have already signed an online Christmas card through SaveOurNet.ca and social media services like Twitter. Sun, 06 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0500 Your Reaction http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=63625&L=en By Rev. Pat Felske, Church of Scientology of Toronto I would like to respond to Dorothee Moisan's article entitled "Scientologists convicted of organized fraud in France" (27 October 2009). We are blessed to live in a country that embraces the multifaith nature of our rich Canadian society. We pride ourselves on building a pluralistic world of peace, understanding and acceptance of different religions, all united in a common goal of freedom and peace. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 Your Reaction http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=59824&L=en Da’ud Mohamed Ali, governor of the Ogaden region of eastern Ethiopia, is heading up a delegation that is expected to tour North America, which includes a planned visit to Minnesota this weekend and on to Canada next week. Why Minnesota? Minnesota is now home to more Somali Ogadens than anywhere else outside of Ethiopia. Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500 Your Reaction http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=59604&L=en By Matthew Russell Lee UNITED NATIONS, October 2 -- Despite a vote in the UN last December supporting the decriminalization of homosexuality, not only the Libyan President of the General Assembly Ali Treki, but now also Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, refuse to follow through on that vote. Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500 Your Reaction http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=58644&L=en On Wednesday September 23, 2009, the President of the General Assembly of the United Nations, the Libyan Ali Abdussalam Treki, opened the 64th Assembly session of the UN by holding a press conference. Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500 Your Reaction Roberto Malini http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=57588&L=en Rome - Anwar Basim Saleh, the 21-year old Iraqi gay activist from Baghdad, is at present in Holland, where he has applied for asylum. Anwar, before leaving his country of origin, was the coordinator of a “safe house” for homosexuals working alongside the Iraqi LGBT organization. Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500 Your Reaction http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=41054&L=en By Jan Niechwiadowicz It is with regret that I notice in your article “US court stays deportation of ex-Nazi guard”; you refer to the German concentration camp in Poland as "Polish". I trust that this is an inadvertent mistake rather than a deliberate distortion. Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0500 Your Reaction http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=40951&L=en By EveryOne Group, Italy Sergio Cofferati, the Mayor of Bologna, and Leonardo Domenici, Mayor of Florence and President of A.N.C.I, have been among the forerunners of the racist and xenophobic policies for which Italy now finds itself at the centre of international criticism. His anti-immigrant laws and persecutory measures against the Roma people earned Cofferati praise from the Lega Nord back in 2005, when the Lega leaders described him as “Better than Guazzaloca” (Guazzaloca was Bologna’s first right-wing mayor). Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0500 Your Reaction http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=38655&L=en We are Jewish Canadians concerned about all expressions of racism, anti-Semitism, and social injustice. We believe that the Holocaust legacy "Never again" means never again for all peoples. Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500 Your Reaction http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=34963&L=en Regarding your article Environmental Issues Influence Consumer Habits, I have been living in a condominium townhome in Ottawa (Canada) since 1984. From the beginning I have had a low-flow shower-head and two low-volume toilets. Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0500 Your Reaction J. (Jean) Kazimiera Cottam http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=31126&L=en At the present time, in spite of all the EU directives, resolutions, warnings, conferences and the inspection carried out by a delegation from the European Commission, no measures, no projects, no real social integration programmes have been undertaken to help the Roma people. Unfortunately the right-wing and far-right wing Italian Government is finding no opposition in this critical field from their political opponents – opponents who in their turn are conducting (these days on a local level, but during the Prodi Government on a national level) racial policies aimed at driving EU citizens of Roma origin off Italian territory. Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0500 Your Reaction http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=25622&L=en By Mony  Ever heard of Chuck ? Young Chuck moved to Texas and bought a donkey from a farmer for $100. The farmer agreed to deliver the donkey the next day. The next day the farmer drove up and said, ʽSorry son, but I have some bad news, the donkey died.ʼ Chuck replied, ... Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 Your Reaction http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=23311&L=en In April 2007, in the case entitled Church of Scientology Moscow v. Russia, the European Court of Human Rights upheld the rights of all Scientologists to practice their religion free from government interference or harassment. This ruling applies to all 47 Member States of the Council of Europe, including France. Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500 Your Reaction http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=17804&L=en BY Laszlo Krompecher Re - Pope Benedict Apologizes WHY ALL THE BASHING OF CATHOLICS. JUST RECENTLY A LOCAL PASTOR - NOT CATHOLIC CLERGY - WAS ACCUSED OF RAPE AND PEDOPHILIA OVER PAST SIX YEARS. THE NEWS WILL GO AWAY IN A FEW DAYS. (Pastor Faces Rape Charge, Wheeling News Register, July 18, 2008). Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500 Your Reaction