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National security legislation
Législation sur la sécurité nationale
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Abuses by national security agencies
Abus causés par les agences de sécurité
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"War on terror"
"Guerre au terrorisme"
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Attacks on workers and dissenters
Attaques contre des travailleurs & activistes
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Criminalization of dissent
Criminalisation de la dissidence
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Criminalization and colonialism
Criminalisation et colonialisme
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No-fly list
Liste d'interdiction de vol
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Canadians detained abroad
Canadien.nes détenu.es à l'étranger
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Secret trials
Procès secrets
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Migrant and refugee rights
Droits des migrant.es et réfugié.es
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Islamophobia
Islamophobie
Amnesty International 20/11/2017 -
The Rohingya people in Myanmar are trapped in a vicious system of state-sponsored, institutionalised discrimination that amounts to apartheid, said Amnesty International today as it publishes a major new analysis into the root causes of the current crisis in Rakhine State. "Caged without a roof" puts into context the recent wave of violence in Myanmar, when the security forces killed Rohingya people, torched  whole villages to the ground, and drove more than 600,000 to flee across the border into Bangladesh. The two-year investigation reveals how authorities severely restrict virtually all aspects of Rohingyas' lives in Rakhine State and have confined them to what amounts to a ghetto-like existence where they struggle to access healthcare, education or in some areas even to leave their villages. The current situation meets every requirement of the legal definition of the crime against humanity of apartheid.
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Autres nouvelles - More news
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Action
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Tell Trudeau: Pick up the Phone, Call Macron, Bring Hassan Diab Home
Change.org - Prime Minister Trudeau,
We are calling on you to pick up the phone, call French President Macron, and work to bring home to Ottawa the wrongfully jailed Canadian citizen Hassan Diab. Dr. Diab is an Ottawa University professor and father of two young Canadian children who has been jailed for over three years in France as a result of a controversial and legally
 questionable extradition proceeding commenced by the previous Conservative government. Of critical concern is the fact that Dr. Diab has been
ordered released
on bail eight times by investigating judges in charge of his case, but on each occasion - most recently on November 14, 2017 - the Court of Appeal overturned all release orders at the prosecutor's behest. French lawyers have called this situation unprecedented, a political manoeuvre to look tough on terror even though a vast body of evidence shows Dr. Diab
did not commit any crime.
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Want to know what's in Bill C-59, the new National Security Act, but don't have time to read 150 pages of complicated legalese?? WE'VE GOT YOU COVERED!
Watch our 2nd video on Bill C-59, the National Security Act, and what changes it would bring to oversight and review
of national security activities in Canada.
Over the next few weeks, ICLMG will be releasing 2 more videos on everything you need to know about Bill C-59.
Subscribe to our channel to be notified when our next videos come out.
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Micheal Vonn (BCCLA), Tamir Israel (CIPPIC, OttawaU) and Paul Champ (Champ and Associates) discussed the different aspects of the bill - oversight & review, information sharing, new powers for CSIS and CSE, the no-fly list - what's good, what's bad, and what's ugly.
Dr. Monia Mazigh and lawyer Yavar Hameed are discussing the double standard and the polical use of the word terrorism; the impact of islamophobia, anti-terrorism laws and national security agencies' actions on Canadian Muslims; and how Islamophobia is both a cause and a consequence of Canada's national security apparatus.
Freddy Stoneypoint talked about the use of national security discourse, laws and agencies to silence, discredit and criminalize Indigenous struggles for land, water, rights and sovereignty in Canada. Jen Moore talked about the use of anti-terrorism and national security laws to quash dissent from Indigenous and environmental activists in Latin America, specifically around Canadian extraction projects. Both have spoken of their personal experience with criminalization of dissent in Canada and in Peru. Last but not least, Paul Champ talked about the failure of Canadian oversight mechanisms to protect environmental activists from national security agencies' surveillance.
Our Speaker Series is sponsored by CUPE, the Canadian Union for Public Employees. We will be hosting one panel per month for 5 months on an important and timely issue related to national security and human rights in Canada. Stay tuned for the next dates and topics.
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Citizen Lab - If you knew that every piece of mail you sent was opened at the post office, read, and resealed before it was delivered, would you still feel comfortable divulging personal information in those letters? Unfortunately, SMS text messages that we send and receive may be subject to this exact type of inspection. This is why the Citizen Lab, in partnership with Open Effect and the University of New Mexico, has released
Secure Your Chats
: a
Net Alert
resource that outlines how to safely  use end-to-end encryption. End-to-end encrypted messaging is effective at protecting the content of your messages from being read as they travel across the Internet to your friends and family. Essentially, each message is scrambled and can only be unscrambled by the sender and recipient of the message. This is a powerful method to ensure that third party actors can't access your communiques and that service providers can't read or give up any information that you send or receive. Many chat apps enable end-to-end encryption by default, including: WhatsApp, Wire, Signal, and LINE.
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EFF's "Street-Level Surveillance" project shines light on the advanced surveillance technologies that law enforcement agencies routinely deploy in our communities. These resources are  designed for members of the public, advocacy organizations, journalists, defense attorneys, and policymakers who often are not getting the straight story from police representatives or the vendors marketing this equipment.
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Action
Tell the Senate: Don't pass Bill C-23!
LeadNow & BCCLA -
Our rights while travelling to the United States could be at risk. The Senate is currently debating a bill that would give US border officials unprecedented rights to search and detain Canadian citizens, on Canadian soil.
Bill C-23 would grant US border guards new powers to question, detain and even strip search Canadian citizens going through  US customs in Canadian airports.
The bill has already passed the House of Commons and could become law with little fuss in just a few weeks, unless we speak up now.
We've partnered with the BCCLA to stop this bill in its tracks - but we need to act fast. Will you send an email to members of the Senate Transportation Committee and Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale asking them to refuse to pass Bill C-23?
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BCCLA - The Canadian government's security agencies have been spying on law-abiding Canadians engaged in peaceful activities related to the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline project. It's time to hold our spy agencies accountable.
 I call on the government to respect democratic participation, freedom of association, and the rule of law.
I have the right to participate in public debate without fear of being spied on or intimidated by my government. Respect my rights and stop spying on me!
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Tell Trudeau: Time to spill secrets
CJFE -
Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) is calling on the Canadian Government to launch an inquiry into allegations of the suspicionless surveillance of  environmental activists. We further want the government to voluntarily disclose all documentation about the extent and specifics of this practice, and to ensure that Canadians are never again targeted by state intelligence for environmental advocacy.
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Adherence Form in favor of repeal of the Anti-terrorist law in Chile
Instituto nacional de derechos humanos -
The undersigned human rights organizations, social movements, and other civil society organizations from numerous countries in the international community raise our voices to express our profound concern, repudiation, and  solidarity regarding the ongoing grave human rights violations against indigenous peoples in Chile. We are especially concerned about the situation of the Mapuche people, who have been repressed and persecuted under the Anti-Terrorism Act and whose leaders and members have been imprisoned.
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Call for increased levels for refugees
Canadian Council for Refugees - In the next few weeks, the federal government will make crucial decisions about immigration levels for 2018. These decisions will affect how many refugees can find a permanent home in Canada. If you support Canada opening the door to refugees, now is the time to write to your Member of Parliament, copying the
 Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship (
[email protected]), and to submit
comments to the Prime Minister, asking the Government of Canada, in setting the immigration levels, to:
- Increase Government-Assisted Refugee numbers to 20,000 per year;
- Ensure the numbers for privately sponsored refugees are sufficient to clear the backlog of cases by the end of 2018;
- Ensure the levels for "Protected Persons in Canada and Dependants Abroad" are high enough so that the increased numbers of refugee claimants can be quickly landed and reunited with family, if their claim is accepted.
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CJPME - The "Peace in Palestine" campaign is an effort to get Canada's politicians to have an honest public discussion about Israel's illegal "settlements," and how Canada must respond. A core component of the campaign is a Parliamentary ePetition, calling on the government to "demand
 that Israel immediately and completely cease all settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territories." Please
sign the Parliamentary ePetitionnow! Through the grassroots support for this campaign, we want to force a public debate and spur the introduction of a parliamentary motion on Israel's illegal settlement activities.
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CJFE -
A strong access to information system is vital to maintaining a healthy democracy. Yet Canada's system is in shambles, plagued by long delays and a huge list of exceptions and exclusions. Shockingly, the Information Commissioner has called the Access to Information Act "a shield against transparency." The Liberal government said they'd fix Canada's access to information system, then broke a key  promise to open up the Offices of the Prime Minister and Ministers to public requests. The current system isfailingCanadians and the government's weak reform bill, Bill C-58, won't fix it. It's on us to keep the government accountable. If Canadians speak with one voice to demand transparency, we can start to build the open democracy we deserve. Tell President of the Treasury Board Scott Brison: scrap Bill C-58 and write a new bill that gives Canadians the open and accountable government we deserve!
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Open Media -
Ministers from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the U.S. have gone public with their plans for a huge attack on our personal security.
They want to force companies to crush the encryption that protects our
private data and messages. But ordinary people need and use encryption every day, in everything from online banking to personal messaging in apps like WhatsApp.
Tell ministers to stop their attacks, and commit to protecting our privacy and security.
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Action
Petition: Stop Stingray Surveillance
OpenMedia - Stingrays (also known as "IMSI-catchers") are surveillance devices that can suck up sensitive, personal info in our cell phones. Calls, emails, and texts - our most intimate moments. You don't have to do anything wrong to be a victim. Stingrays CAN'T target one person. They CAN vacuum
 up an entire neighbourhood, or the private data of up to 10,000 people at once. We know they're being used in countries including the U.S. and Australia, and other governments are fighting to keep their use a secret. We must rein this in. Tell law-makers: It's time to put a stop to invasive Stingray cellphone surveillance.
Resource: IMSI catchers in Canada
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Ceasefire -
Canada's new defence policy includes a commitment to acquire armed drones
"for precision targeting" despite widespread concerns about their misuse both in situations of armed conflict and in the dreadful context of "extrajudicial killings".
Armed drones have been implicated in the killing of untold numbers of innocent
civilians, most recently in a shocking U.S. drone strike on a mosque in a Syrian village, reflecting a systematic U.S. effort, since the advent of Trump, to loosen targeting practices and reduce public accountability for strikes that kill civilians.
The new defence policy contains no rationale for why Canada needs armed drones nor any policy framework to guard against their misuse. Astonishingly our Prime Minister has stated we will develop a policy only once we are ready to use them.
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Les opinions exprimées ne reflètent pas nécessairement les positions de la CSILC - The views expressed do not necessarily reflect the positions of ICLMG
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The News Digest is ICLMG's weekly publication of news articles, events, calls to action and much more regarding national security, anti-terrorism, and civil liberties. The ICLMG is a national coalition of
45 Canadian civil society organizations that was established in the aftermath of the September, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States.
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La revue de l'actualité est notre publication hebdomadaire de nouvelles, d'évènements, d'appels à l'action, et beaucoup plus, entourant la sécurité nationale, la lutte au terrorisme, et les libertés civiles. La CSILC est une coalition nationale de
45 organisations de la société civile canadienne qui a été créée suite aux attentats terroristes de septembre 2001 aux États-Unis.
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We would like to thank all our member organizations, and our patrons who are supporting
ICLMG on Patreon! As a reward, we are listing our patrons who give $10 or more per month (and wanted to be listed) directly in the News Digest. Without you, our work wouldn't be possible!
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Nous tenons à remercier nos organisations membres et toutes les personnes qui soutiennent la CSILC sur Patreon! En récompense, nous nommons ci-dessus nos mécènes qui donnent 10$ ou plus par mois directement dans le News Digest. Sans vous, notre travail ne serait pas possible!
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