D. NASHID, Barrister & Solicitor

11/04/2025

Of the thousands of bombs that have fallen – and fall still – on Gaza, there is one to which Navi Pillay returns: a lone shell, fired by the Israel Defense Forces at the Al-Basma fertility clinic in December 2023. A single strike that wiped out 4,000 embryos in a moment.

The strike was “intended to prevent births” among Palestinians in Gaza, says Pillay, the former chair of the UN’s Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Territory of Palestine and Israel.

“That clinic stands alone in the grounds, separate from the rest of the hospital buildings. They didn’t fire on the hospital – if the excuse is that Hamas is hiding in the hospitals, they didn’t touch the hospital. They came straight to this building and targeted and hit the nitrogen tanks that kept the embryos alive.”

— Ben Doherty, The Guardian

Mon 3 Nov 2025 14.00 GMT

Al Basma IVF Centre, Gaza’s largest fertility clinic which was struck by an Israeli shell. Composite: Guardian Design

10/08/2023

07/19/2022

Stop the Apartheid. Stop the Genocide.

06/24/2022

As the evidence demonstrates, human
rights and Indigenous rights abuses and
violations committed and condoned by the
Canadian state represent genocide against
Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA
people. These abuses and violations have
resulted in the denial of safety, security, and
human dignity. They are the root causes of the
violence against Indigenous women, girls, and
2SLGBTQQIA people that generate and maintain
a world within which Indigenous women, girls,
and 2SLGBTQQIA people are forced to confront
violence on a daily basis, and where perpetrators
act with impunity.
The steps to end and redress this genocide must
be no less monumental than the combination of
systems and actions that has worked to maintain
colonial violence for generations. A permanent
commitment to ending the genocide requires
addressing the four pathways explored within this
report, namely:

• historical, multigenerational, and
intergenerational trauma;
• social and economic marginalization;
maintaining the status quo and institutional lack
of will; and
• ignoring the agency and expertise of Indigenous
women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA people.

Reclaiming Power and Place: The Final Report of
the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered
Indigenous Women and Girls

09/06/2018

https://nashid.ca/proposed-brand-name-registrable-trademarks-act/

Many business people and brand owners are unaware of the constraints relating to the types of trademarks that cannot be registered under the Trademarks Act. Brand owners must be aware of these restrictions when developing their brands since registration will not be possible if the mark contravenes t...