- 08.12.2024 - Read Professor Isaac Nahon-Serfaty's piece in Latinoamérica21 about the third conference on academic freedom in the Americas, held November 20-21, which raised concerns about the growing threats to academic freedom in the region, fueled by rising authoritarianism in the U.S., Argentina, Brazil, and Latin America
- 08.12.2024 - Comment | In Le Devoir, Professor Jabeur Fathally comments on the era of cautious hope for peace and fears about the future after the fall of Bashar al-Assad in Syria (in French)
- 04.12.2024 - Blog | Agenda Estado de Derecho, Latin America’s top legal blog site, asked HRREC members Jordi Feo and Salvador Herencia-Carrasco to write a piece on a case focusing on the rights of Indigenous Peoples, environmental due diligence and Business & Human Rights. This focuses on a case that the Constitutional Court should decide soon. (in Spanish)
- 01.12.2024 - Comment | Professor Jabeur Fathally comments on the resurgence of hotilities in Syria in Le Devoir (in French)
- 28.11.2024 - The Canadian Bar Association releases an AI ethics toolkit led by Karen Eltis
- 26.11.2024 - Interview | Read the interview given by Céline Castets-Renard to the magazine Techniques de l'ingénieur about the European AI Regulation (in French)
- 22.11.2024 - Article | The International Council of Science asked HRREC member Salvador Herencia‑Carrasco and CAFA Executive Director Camilla Croso to write a short piece on the right to science and its implication on academic freedom
- 21.11.2024 - Julie Ynès Ada recently published an open access paper in the Journal of Human Rights Practice examining the relationship between gender equality and legal pluralism in postcolonial contexts: Regulating Gender Violence in Postcolonial Societies: Is Legal Pluralism a Problem for Human Rights?
- 20.11.2024 - Christiana Sagay at the ASIL Mid-Year Conference 2024
- 20.11.2024 - Céline Castets-Renard awarded Canada Research Chair in International and Comparative Law of AI
- 18.11.2024 - The University of Ottawa has extended its collaboration with the Ministry of Education (Taiwan) through the renewal of the Research Chair in Taiwan Studies
- 14.11.2024 - Where AI meets law: A new Canada Research Chair for Professor Céline Castets-Renard
HRREC Newsletter | 18.12.2024
We are pleased to bring you news and upcoming events from the Human Rights Research and Education Centre (HRREC).
Until the new year!
The HRREC team wishes you Happy Holidays!
The Centre will be closed for the holidays from December 21 to January 5 inclusive. We look forward to reconnecting with you after the break and wish you a wonderful holiday season!
SUMMER SCHOOL
SUMMER SCHOOL
May 25
to
May 30
Summer school on international humanitarian law 2025
HRREC and the Canadian Red Cross are preparing the 17th edition of the Summer Course in IHL! Registration opens March 1, 2025.
HRREC news
UPCOMING PUBLICATION
UPCOMING PUBLICATION
Call for papers for the Canadian Yearbook of Human Rights 2024
The Canadian Yearbook of Human Rights (CYHR) invites submissions for its next issue, Volume 5 (2024), to be published in 2025.
NEW GRADUATE
NEW GRADUATE
Congratulations to Gloria Song on successfully defending her doctoral thesis!
HRREC student member Gloria Song successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis on 5 December 2024.
