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The Human Rights Research and Education Centre (HRREC) is pleased to welcome Ümmühan Elçin Ertuğrul, Associate Professor of International Public Law field at Kırıkkale University since 2018. She also is a lawyer registered at the Ankara Bar, Turkey. She will spend a year with us in Ottawa.

Groups seeking equity in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) remain significantly underrepresented despite the numerous advantages that a diverse community can bring to these disciplines. In the spirit of supporting diversity at the University of Ottawa, Leah McMunn and Myriam Carle, both PhD candidates in chemistry, have helped form a local chapter of Canadians Working Towards...

On February 28th 2022, Faculty member Dr. Michael Geist appeared before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics (ETHI). The Committee is reviewing the collection and use of mobility data by the Public Health Agency of Canada to support the response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Office of the Vice-President, Research and Innovation (OVPRI) has released its Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Action Plan for Research, which aims to diversify and strengthen the research community. The plan addresses systemic barriers to the full participation of underrepresented groups in research, including women, Indigenous peoples, visible minorities and racialized persons, the LGB...

In Winter 2022, Kelsea Gillespie, a fourth-year student in the joint Juris Doctor/Master of Arts (JD-MA) program completed a Student Proposed Internship (for credit in the Common Law section) at the Human Rights Research and Education Centre (HRREC)’s Human Rights Clinic.

Statement of the Canadian Association of Human Rights Institutes* on the Russian Aggression against Ukraine 01.03.2022

In the last federal election, every major party embraced the language of net-zero by 2050. Given how effectively energy and climate have worked as political wedges, it was a promising shift in rhetoric. Canadian politicians have built entire campaigns around promises to fight energy infrastructure and climate policies. In recent years, incoming governments have largely delivered on those promises.

The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is delighted to announce that Dr. Céline Castets-Renard was recently awarded a SSHRC Parternship Engage Grant for a project entitled “Profilage racial et impact des technologies utilisées par la police à Montréal-Saint Michel”.

More than a year after she was interviewed by the University of Ottawa’s Gazette, Karine Coen-Sanchez, a PhD candidate in sociology, continues to lead efforts to counter systemic racism in academia.

On February 9th 2022, Faculty member Dr. Michael Geist appeared before the Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs to discuss the Bill S-210 that purports to restrict underage access to sexually explicit material.