Pandemic used as a cover for increased persecution of women human rights defenders globally

Canada must live up to promise of feminist foreign policy by putting women at centre of its global COVID-19 responses.

Foreign Affairs Minister François-Philippe Champagne recently highlighted this vulnerability and has expressed concern about 'excessive use of force and violations of fundamental rights and freedoms that have already occurred in some countries during the implementation of lockdowns.'The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY Rachel Vincent

May 11, 2020

Reem Al-Ksiri is a Syrian-born lawyer who now lives in Vienna, Austria. Like millions of other Syrians, she was forced from her home by war and the brutality of a regime that instead of protecting its citizens has bombed, imprisoned and tortured them. Reem works to release women currently imprisoned...

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