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  1. Sep 21, 2024 · Irwin Cotler, the 83-year-old human-rights advocate and former Canadian parliamentarian, received the lifetime achievement award of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs last month at a conference in Ottawa.

  2. Sep 9, 2024 · Cotler-Wunsh said that she is inspired in her work by her father, Irwin Cotler, a former Canadian justice minister and member of parliament who was appointed Canada’s first special envoy for preserving Holocaust remembrance and combating antisemitism in 2020.

  3. Sep 9, 2024 · Irwin Cotler has assembled this volume of papers given at the International Human Rights Conference, which was held in Montreal in 1987 to mark the 40th anniversary of the Nuremberg war-crimes trials.

  4. Sep 16, 2024 · 16 September 2024. Two years ago, Iran’s “morality police” detained and brutally attacked a 22-year old Kurdish woman — Mahsa (Jina) Amini — for allegedly revealing too much hair beneath her compulsory hijab. Her death in state custody on 16 September 2022 sparked mass protests across Iran under the rallying cry Woman, Life, Freedom.

  5. Sep 16, 2024 · First, Iran is a nuclear threat. Second, it is a genocidal one.” Irwin Cotler, former minister of justice and attorney general of Canada, sat down with JNS at his home in Montreal on Wednesday to discuss Canada’s approach to Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza.

  6. Sep 25, 2024 · Irwin Cotler, former minister of justice and attorney general of Canada, sat down with JNS at his home in Montreal on Wednesday to discuss Canada’s approach to Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza. Cotler discussed Ottawa’s recent arm embargo on Jerusalem and its resumption of funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA).

  7. Sep 5, 2024 · He appointed the first-ever aboriginal and visible minority justices to the Ontario Court of Appeal; initiated the first-ever law on human trafficking; crafted the Civil Marriage Act, the first-ever legislation to grant marriage equality to gays and lesbians; and issued Canada’s first National Justice Initiative Against Racism and Hate.