CRARR NO LONGER SUGGESTS MEDIATION FOR RACIAL PROFILING CASES BEFORE THE QUEBEC HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION
Montreal, September 26, 2013 --- CRARR no longer recommends that complainants and victims of racial profiling involving the police participate in mediation to settle their complaints at the Quebec Human Rights and Youth Rights Commission.
LES VICTIMES DES CRIMES HAINEUX DOIVENT PROTÉGER LEURS DROITS ET POURSUIVRE LEURS AGRESSEURS
Montréal, 16 septembre 2013 --- Le CRARR encourage les victimes d’actes discriminatoires et de crimes à caractère haineux de prendre tous les moyens légaux disponibles pour protéger leurs droits et libertés.
UN MONTRÉALAIS GAI SE VOIT REFUSER UN REMBOURSEMENT APRÈS L’ANNULATION DE SON VOYAGE EN RUSSIE
Montréal, 11 septembre 2013 --- Après avoir annulé son voyage en Russie en raison de la nouvelle loi de ce pays qui pénalise la « propagande sur les relations sexuelles non traditionnelles », un Montréalais gai pourrait se voir obligé de poursuivre sa compagnie d’assurance après que celle-ci a refusé de le rembourser.
GAY MONTREALER DENIED INSURANCE REFUND AFTER CANCELLING TOUR TO RUSSIA DUE TO HOMOPHOBIC LAW
Montreal, September 11, 2013 --- After cancelling his trip to Russia due to that country's infamous law against “propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations”, a gay Montrealer may have to sue his insurance company for denying him a reimbursement.
LE PROFILAGE RACIAL ET LES ÉLECTIONS MUNICIPALES DE 2013
Le CRARR fera une intervention publique en partenariat avec plusieurs organismes et personnes racisées dans le but de demander aux candidats à la mairie de Montréal de présenter leur plan d'action contre le profilage racial.
ROUNDTABLE ON THE CHARTER OF QUEBEC VALUES/BILL 60: EQUALITY AND FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES
CRARR will hold two round table discussions on the Charter of Quebec Values/Bill 60. The round-table community dialogues seek to provide alternative and progressive critical analysis of the proposed policy paper/Bill, to examine its impact on different minority groups, and to identify strategies for concrete actions and discourses to uphold fundamental human rights and freedoms as guaranteed by the Canadian and Quebec Charters of Human Rights and Freedoms.
BLACK MAN BEATEN, CALLED THE N-WORD IN SOUTH-WEST DISTRICT OF MONTREAL
Montreal, August 21, 2013 --- Weeks after he was violently assaulted by a group of white anglophones near Charlevoix metro station and called the N-word while being punched and kicked, a Black man in his fifties still waits for the news from the police as to whether his aggressors have been charged and whether he is considered a victim of a hate crime.
UN HOMME GAI LATINO-AMÉRICAIN ARRÊTÉ PAR LA POLICE APRÈS AVOIR DEMANDÉ DE L’AIDE
Montréal, 31 juillet 2013 --- Un homme gai d’origine latino-américaine dans la quarantaine, qui place lui-même un appel au 911 pour recevoir de l’aide, finit plutôt par être l’objet d’arrestation et d’accusation criminelle, sans même avoir commis les infractions reprochées, suite à un incident dans le quartier sud-ouest de Montréal.
LE 5e ANNIVERSAIRE DE LA MORT DE FREDY VILLANUEVA: DES RÉFORMES URGENTES À L’ORDRE DU JOUR
Montréal, 9 août 2013 --- Arrivant à l’ombre de la mort de Sammy Yatim, un jeune qui a été abattu par la police à Toronto le mois dernier, le 5e anniversaire du décès de Fredy Villanueva, survenu suite à une intervention policière le 9 août 2008 dans un parc à Montréal-Nord, constitue l’occasion de réclamer à nouveau des mesures concrètes pour mettre en place de meilleures pratiques policières et renforcer la protection des droits de la personne.
THE FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF FREDY VILLANUEVA’S DEATH: SPEEDY REFORMS ARE URGENTLY NEEDED
Montreal, August 9, 2013 --- Coming in the shadow of the fatal shooting of 18 year-old Sammy Yatim in Toronto last month, the fifth anniversary of Freddy Villanueva’s death, which resulted from a Montreal Police intervention in a park in Montreal North on August 9, 2008, is the appropriate time to renew public calls for better police practices and civil rights protections.
ANGLOPHONE EMPLOYMENT AT CITY HALL: MAKING EMPLOYMENT EQUITY MORE INCLUSIVE
Montreal, July 18, 2013
Recently, local media reported that City Councillor Marvin Rotrand addressed the under-representation of Anglophones’ employment in the City of Montreal’s public service, by taking some steps such as allowing applicants to use a dictionary during the written French language test and loosen French language proficiency requirements for some jobs.
ANGLOPHONE EMPLOYMENT IN THE CITY’S CIVIL SERVICE: FOR SUSTAINABLE ACTIONS AND RESULTS
Montreal, July 10,2013
Recently, local media reported that City Councillor Marvin Rotrand addressed the under-representation of Anglophones’ employment in the City of Montreal’s public service, by taking some steps such as allowing applicants to use a dictionary during the written French language test and loosen French language proficiency requirements for some jobs.
BROWN CONCORDIA STUDENT DETAINED & CALLED “HINDU PAKI” DURING POLICE INTERROGATION
Montreal, July 4, 2013--- For a Concordia University student of South Asian background, what was supposed to be a pleasant evening drive with two friends along the Lachine Canal ended up as nightmare in which he was detained at gunpoint, handcuffed and even called a “Hindou Paki” by a Montreal police officer.
ANOTHER FILIPINA DOMESTIC WORKER TAKES ACTION AGAINST ABUSIVE EMPLOYER
Montreal, June 28, 2013 --- CRARR has filed another civil rights complaint on behalf of a Filipina live-in caregiver who was exploited and threatened to be reported to immigration authorities by her employer when she demanded to be paid for work performed.
BLACK MAN FILES COMPLAINT OF RACIAL PROFILING AND PRIVACY VIOLATION AGAINST DOWNTOWN GYM
Montreal, June 27, 2013 --- A young black man has filed a civil rights complaint against a major downtown gym after being carded and asked to leave the premises for failing to show his membership card to a manager and seeing his confidential probation information disclosed without his consent.
