- 29.04.2024 - Award | Professor Karen Eltis wins prestigious Mundell Medal for excellence in legal writing
- 23.04.2024 - Opinion | Read student member Justine Monette-Tremblay's touching and critical opinion piece in La Presse: The inhuman banality of miscarriage (in French)
- 15.04.2024 - Jamie Liew — Ghost Citizens: Researching the Legal Limbo of Stateless Persons
- 15.04.2024 - Interview | Listen to our academic member Professor Jabeur Fathally's interview with Marie Villeneuve, host of Radio-Canada's Phare Ouest, on a year of war in Sudan and the Iranian response (in French)
- 11.04.2024 - Interview | Academic member Christina Clark-Kazak was interviewed for Don't Call Me Resilient Podcast - read about it in The Conversation: Asylum seekers from Gaza and Sudan face prejudiced policies and bureaucratic hurdles
- 05.04.2024 - Marie-Christine Doran, Professor at the School of Political Studies, gives her analysis on El Salvador's approach to gang violence in The Conversation
- 24.03.2024 - Dean Marie-Ève Sylvestre's term renewed for five years (in French)
- 27.03.2024 - Interview | Read Professor Jabeur Fathally and other experts interviewed in Le Devoir : What has become of the Islamic State group? (in French)
- 18.03.2024 - Exploring legal innovations in Latin America with Pierre-Gilles Bélanger (in French)
- 17.03.2024 - Interview | Neuberger-Jesin Professor John Packer contributed to Aljazeera news programme Inside Story on the crisis in Haiti
- 08.03.2024 - Jane Bailey — Behind the screens: Youth insights shaping approaches to technology-facilitated violence
- 07.03.2024 - HRREC members present at the first Day of Advocacy on the Hill Against Gender Apartheid
- 05.03.2024 - Interview | Tarik Saglam, Program Development Director of Northern Justice Watch, conducted an interview with Neuberger-Jesin Professor John Packer for the Justice & Human Rights Talk Series
HRREC Newsletter - 03.05.2024
We are pleased to bring you news and upcoming events from the Human Rights Research and Education Centre (HRREC).
HRREC upcoming events
WEBINAR
WEBINAR
May 8
Beyond Borders: Navigating the nexus of poverty, vulnerability & migration
The HRREC is pleased to be a partner in the presentation of this webinar. Registration required!
ACFAS 2024
ACFAS 2024
May 14
Droit des enfants : Défis actuels & objectifs de développement durable
The Interdisciplinary Research Laboratory on the Rights of the Child (IRLRC) is pleased to present Colloque 606 at the 91st ACFAS 2024 Congress.
ACFAS 2024
ACFAS 2024
May 17
Services enfance-famille autochtones
The IRLRC is also pleased to be a partner of Colloque 18 at the 91st ACFAS 2024 Congress.
Upcoming deadlines
DEADLINE MAY 6
DEADLINE MAY 6
Summer school on international humanitarian law 2024
Registration to our Summer School on IHL 2024 will close on Monday! Last chance for professionals and students (without credits) to apply!
HRREC news
ANNUAL REPORT
ANNUAL REPORT
Read the HRREC Annual Report 2023
Check out our activities, projects and initiatives for 2023!
STATEMENT
STATEMENT
HRREC supports the AHRI Statement on the war in Gaza
The AHRI Executive Committee/Board adopted the statement in April 2024. HRREC is a member of the Association of Human Rights Institutes since 2015.
ADVOCACY
ADVOCACY
The ongoing crises facing the Rohingya people and Canada’s response
HRREC was a partner in the organization of an event in Winnipeg on the ongoing crises facing the Rohingya people and Canada’s response.
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