Canadian, by chance
Canada wasn’t our first pick. But it was the hand that fate had dealt us.
Kaveh Shahrooz / @kshahrooz
Lawyer and senior fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute
Kaveh Shahrooz is a Toronto-based lawyer and human rights activist, and a senior fellow with the Macdonald-Laurier Institute's Centre for Advancing Canada's Interests Abroad. He is also a former senior policy advisor on human rights to Global Affairs Canada. A graduate of Harvard Law School and the University of Toronto, he has written widely on human rights issues and international affairs. He led a recent successful effort to convince Canada's Parliament to recognize the 1988 massacre of political prisoners in Iran as constituting crimes against humanity under international law.
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Iran’s Vulnerable Minorities
Iran recently released a draft of its new Citizens’ Rights Charter. A close reading reveals that it would further entrench discrimination against minority groups says Kaveh Shahrooz.
Human Rights and Historical Amnesia
Kaveh Shahrooz on why it is essential to revisit Iran’s painful past to get to a democratic future.