Human rights reporting is one of my greatest passions in journalism. Here’s a collection of my reporting on various human rights issues.
Responsibility to Protect/Genocide
Are the Conservatives politicking with Responsibility to Protect?
World should have intervened in Syria a year ago: Dallaire
Responsibility to Protect: Does the world have to help Syria?
Guatemala’s genocide trial — a ‘tangled’ path to justice
Canada compares deplorable violence in South Sudan to Rwanda
Pope angers Turkey over Armenian genocide comment
Central African Republic
CAR crisis not next Rwanda but still needs response: Romeo Dallaire
Central African Republic’s forgotten human rights crisis is worsening
U.N. chief calls for end to CAR ‘bloodshed’
U.N., Europe sending more support to Central African Republic: reports
Child soldiers
Is Omar Khadr a child soldier? Explaining the murky debate
Is the world ready to deal with a generation of ISIS child soldiers?
Iraq Crisis: Why you should be concerned about ISIS recruiting children
Were Amanda Lindhout’s Somali captors a product of a failed state?
Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia has a terrible human rights record. Why are they still Canada’s ally?
Saudi King Abdullah: ‘proponent of peace’? Human rights abuser? Both?
Calls for Saudi Arabia to halt beheading of young activist Ali Mohammed al-Nimr
Mining and human rights
Romanians protest Canadian-owned gold mining operation
Protests, cyanide concerns may halt Canadian-Romania gold mine project
Canadian mining companies under fire for Latin America operations
U.S. Race Relations
From Selma to Ferguson and NYC: ‘This action is now a movement’
Analysis: Trying to understand the tensions in Ferguson
How many black people have been killed by police in the US? Depends who’s counting
What lead paint had to do with Freddie Gray’s tragic life
Why some Baltimore leaders say ‘thug’ is the wrong word to use
Who are the Baltimore cops charged in Freddie Gray’s death?
Study finds ‘no racial bias’ in US police shootings. But do the numbers add up?
Police treatment of Waco suspects ignites backlash, comparisons to Baltimore
Cleveland police release video of Tamir Rice being shot by officer
Why some people think dashcam video of Sandra Bland’s arrest was edited
Sandra Bland arrest: Comparing dashcam footage to arrest video
Sandra Bland autopsy indicates death was suicide, but family points to booking inconsistencies
Sexual Violence
Female refugees endure sexual violence, exploitation as they escape war-torn Syria, Iraq: Amnesty
Analysis: Mumbai gang rape case highlights lingering gender issues in progressive Indian city
Will Indians get to see the gang rape documentary ‘India’s Daughter’?
Why are women in Pakistan and India at risk of brutal violence?
Pakistan stoning: Farzana Parveen’s husband says he killed first wife
Over 1 million call for justice following alleged gang rape in Kenya
Kenya’s chief justice calls for action on high profile gang rape case
Brazilian teen speaks out after gang rape video posted online
This man saved 40,000 women. Will he win the Nobel Peace Prize?
Nick Logan 