Official Documents
This is a partial list of relevant documents. The Omar Khadr Project has a list of mostly legal documents here and the University of Toronto has one here.
International Agreements and Resolutions:
- UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, which Canada has ratified and the US is signatory to
- UN Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict, ratified by the US and Canada
- UN Security Council resolutions 1261 (1999), 1314 (2000), 1379 (2001),1460 (2003), 1539 (2004), 1612 (2005)
- Paris Principles (2007)
- 4th Geneva Convention. Article 68 rules out the death penalty on anyone whose offense was committed while they were less than 18 years old
Government Reports:
- Omar Khadr: Report of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development, Subcommittee on International Human Rights. Canadian House of Commons.
- Military Commission page for Khadr on the US Department of Defense webpage (2005-2006)
Reports by Non Governmental Organizations:
- Amnesty Canada: Open Letter to Primer Minister Harper Calling for the Repatriation of Khadr
- Amnesty International: Long Overdue, Non ‘Premature’: Canada Must Pursue Omar Khadr’s Repatriation
- Amnesty USA: Omar Khadr is ‘salvageable’, military commissions are not
- Amnesty USA: In whose best interests? Omar Khadr, child ‘enemy combatant’ facing military commission
- Human Rights Watch Special Focus on Khadr
- Human Rights Watch backgrounder: The Omar Khadr Case: A Teenager Imprisoned at Guantanamo
Other Documents:
