The broad themes of this brief include concern about torture or ill-treatment within Canada, complicity in torture and other ill-treatment abroad, access to remedies and redress for survivors of torture, and continuing failure to accede to the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture. It sets out the organization’s concerns regarding violence against Indigenous women and girls, policing of Indigenous protests, redress for survivors of torture, refoulement and other forcible transfers to a risk of torture, access to refugee protection, immigration detention, solitary confinement, accession to the Optional Protocol and Canada’s ineffective approach to implementing international human rights obligations.
