Irwin Cotler
ARTICLES BY: Irwin Cotler
The Holocaust and Human Rights: Lessons Learned and Actions to Be Taken
I write at a historic moment of remembrance and reminder, of witness and warning. We are on the eve of two historic anniversaries: the 80th...
Jonathan Pollard’s Release Doesn’t Erase 30 Years of Injustice
The official announcement that Jonathan Pollard will be paroled on November 21, having served 30 years for transmitting classified American documents to the Israeli government, is...
Anti-Semitism, Old and New
This past week, I had the privilege of participating in the first-ever UN General Assembly forum on global anti-Semitism, which, as it happened, took place...
In Dark Times, Remember Wallenberg
It has been a dark January. Thus far, 2015 has brought tragic and infuriating terrorism, anti-Semitism, and assaults on liberty in France; a car bomb in...
The UN and Unequal Justice: The Case for Jewish Refugees From Arab Countries
The UN marked the 67th anniversary of the UN Partition Resolution of November 29, 1947, with an International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People....
Rouhani’s Record Reveals Nothing Has Changed in Iran
While Iranian President Rouhani pledged to usher in a new era of human rights for Iranians, the person held out as a "moderate" has presided...
Gaza – The Road Not Yet Traveled
The notion that truth is the first casualty of war has found expression in the ongoing fog of the current Israel-Hamas conflict - where truth...
Opinion: The Need for Moral Clarity on the Israel-Hamas War
The latest Israeli-Hamas war, with its evocative images of human suffering, has engaged hearts and minds the world over, particularly in this digital age of...
Rouhani is No ‘Moderate’ on Human Rights
The Canadian Parliament has just concluded its third Iran Accountability Week, which sounded the alarm on the fourfold threat posed by the Iranian regime -...
Sochi Olympics: Remembering Sergei Magnitsky
On the eve of the Sochi Olympics, over 200 writers from around the world - including Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie, and Russian novelist Lyudmila Ulitskaya -...
The Camp Ashraf Massacres: A Failure to Protect
In a recent encounter I had in Paris with families of those murdered at Camp Ashraf on September 1 the cri de coeur related not...
Irwin Cotler: Testing Iran’s Nuclear Charm Offensive
Negotiations about Iran's nuclear program are set to resume this week in Geneva between the P5 + 1 countries (USA, UK, France, Russia, China and...
Why I’m ‘Adopting’ an Iranian Prisoner
This week, parliamentarians in Canada and the United States have been focusing attention on the dangers posed by the Iranian government, sounding the...
An Urgent Plan of Action for Syria
Aleppo - Syria's second-largest city, its commercial hub and an ancient heritage site - is under relentless assault. This siege follows what has been called...
