Then there is the inspiring sight of white farmers, who have been contesting the legality of the land expropriations in a regional human rights tribunal, marching into court arm in arm with their black lawyers, often dynamic women who know the laws and Constitution of the land better than those sitting in judgment.
The court, the first global human rights tribunal with a permanent mandate, has been working in The Hague since 2002 despite resistance and a continuing boycott by the United States.
"The E-Commerce chapter does not prohibit recourse to this option altogether, but imposes a strict test that such measures must not amount to 'arbitrary or unjustifiable discrimination or a disguised restriction on trade' — a test that would be applied by an investment court, not by a data protection authority or human rights tribunal," it adds.
The British Columbia supreme court in Vancouver recently overturned an earlier decision of the human rights tribunal that Vancouver Rape Relief had breached the human rights code when it refused to allow Kimberley Nixon, a male to female transsexual, to train as a counsellor of female rape victims.
"The defendant did not kill anyone, but he failed to prevent and stop the attacks," Justice Adriani Nurdin told a human rights tribunal in Jakarta.
"If he's going to take it to the human rights tribunal I'm more than happy to state our case".
A discussion about the future of the most important human rights tribunal in the world will thus be confined primarily to government officials.
The women eventually withdrew their lawsuit from the Ontario Human Right Tribunal because FIFA wouldn't budge, although the world soccer governing body did promise never to use artificial turf at the women's World Cup again.
Instead, the Liberal government has repeatedly ignored a ruling by the Canadian human rights tribunal that found the government was racially discriminating against aboriginal youth by underfunding the welfare system.
Cardinal, a recipient of the Officer of the Order of Canada, one of Canada's highest honours, has also lodged complaints over the team's name and logo with the Ontario human rights tribunal and the Canadian Human Rights Commission.
