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Brazil | Demonstrations against a text aiming to criminalize abortion resulting from rape
(Rio de Janeiro) Thousands of people demonstrated Thursday in several cities in Brazil against a text examined in Congress which plans to criminalize abortion and apply penalties of up to…
Domestic violence | NDP MP wants to pass law to criminalize coercive conduct
(Ottawa) An NDP MP hopes the House of Commons continues to put partisanship aside to pass her bill to criminalize coercive conduct this week, after hearing hundreds of personal stories…
Manuel Bompard denounces “a desire” of the government “to criminalize opposition”
“There is a desire to silence, to muzzle, in particular the voices which denounce the massacre underway in Gaza”, estimates the coordinator of La France insoumise, Monday on franceinfo. Published…
Iran: Imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize winner urges to “criminalize gender apartheid”
Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi, incarcerated since 2021 in Tehran, urged in a letter on Friday to “criminalize gender apartheid”, denouncing “systematic and institutionalized segregation” against women in…
Quebec urges Ottawa to criminalize coercive control to protect women
The Quebec government is urging Ottawa to criminalize coercive control in order to better protect women victims of domestic violence. It is your “duty”, he even adds in a letter…
Christophe Béchu does not want to “criminalize” the protest, nor “excuse” the violence during the demonstrations
According to Christophe Béchu, we “must not excuse lip service” the violence of the demonstrators, “nor find a justification for it”. “It is not compatible with a republican or democratic…
Indonesia to criminalize sex outside marriage
Indonesia’s parliament on Tuesday approved a bill criminalizing sex outside marriage and concubinage, denounced by human rights advocates as a rollback of freedoms and a shift towards fundamentalism in the…
Senate committee wants to criminalize forced and coerced sterilization
The Senate Human Rights Committee calls for the Criminal Code to be amended to explicitly criminalize forced and coerced sterilization. Posted at 5:29 p.m. Delphine Belzile The Press The Senate…
Conservative Party Leadership | Charest would criminalize blockades targeting critical infrastructure
(OTTAWA) Conservative leadership candidate Jean Charest announced Wednesday that if elected and becomes prime minister, he would criminalize blockades that target critical infrastructure. Posted at 1:23 p.m. The proposal, a…
MPs want to criminalize the display of hate symbols
(Ottawa) Should it be a crime to fly a Nazi or Confederate flag in Canada? An NDP MP reintroduced a bill to make it so, and dozens of elected officials…
Ottawa intends to criminalize even more conversion therapy
The Trudeau government is back with its plan to criminalize so-called therapies promising to cure homosexuality. This third version of the bill in two years, tabled on Monday, however, goes…