We ‘REACH’
Research, Educate, Advocate and Convene for Human rights

The work of the HRREC is essential to better understand, advance, and support human rights in Canada and beyond. By promoting human rights through a dynamic and rigorous action-research approach, we add value to global and national progress on human rights through the original research and outreach activities of our members, and our partners. By building on links with relevant actors in government, civil society, Indigenous Communities and academia for events, knowledge exchanges, research projects and other initiatives, the HRREC also offers training opportunities for students and civil society organizations on cutting edge concepts and methodologies. Based on this work, we have composed an exciting program of activities and events over the coming months and we want to invite you to join us!

Support the HRREC

Our ambition is to reach further in order to serve and support the needs of tomorrow’s students and community partners—with increased and enhanced program offerings, advocacy with global impact, and more intensive training reaching more communities. Help sustain the important work of the HRREC in the future by considering these flagship initiatives to support.

Canadian Journal of Human Rights (CJHR)

This special volume of the Canadian Journal of Human Rights (Vol. 12(2): 2025) stems from a dual milestone: the 40th anniversaries of the establishment of the Human Rights Research and Education Centre (HRREC) at the University of Ottawa and the drafting and adoption of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

• JUNE 16 & 17, 2022 - Our CHARTER — Our RIGHTS
• JUNE 8, 2022 - Human Rights Due Diligence Legislation: Insights from Europe and Latin America, Lessons for Canada
• JUNE 2 & 3, 2022 - The Challenge of China
• MAY 31, 2022 - Case Study: Canadians Arbitrarily Detained in Northeast Syria for Suspected Islamic State Ties
• MAY 29 to JUNE 3, 2022 - Summer School in International Humanitarian Law 2022
• MAY 26 to JUNE 2, 2022 - 19th Annual Human Rights Watch Canada Film Festival
• MAY 26, 2022 - Violations Committed in the War in Ukraine: A Clear Case?
• MAY 25, 2022 - Indigenous Peoples, Environmental Inclusion and Climate Change: Challenges and Opportunities in the Americas
• MAY 12 & 13, 2022 - CONFERENCE | The Honourable Rosalie Silberman Abella - A Life of Firsts
• APRIL 29 & 30, 2022 - International Conference on Burundi | The Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Mass Atrocities of 1972: A preliminary Assessment
• APRIL 28, 2022 - The Neuberger-Jesin Lecture 2022 | Mediation & the Middle East Peace Process
• APRIL 22, 2022 - The African Union at 20: Challenges and Opportunities
• APRIL 12, 2022 - The Least Fair Law in Canada: Why the Extradition Act Must Be Reformed
• MARCH 28, 2022 - Movement Lawyering in the Caring Society Case
• MARCH 23, 2022 - Strategies to Protect Adademic Freedom
• MARCH 23, 2022 - Russia's War on Ukraine: Implication for International Law and the United Nations
• MARCH 21, 2022 - International Solidarity between Indigenous Peoples
• MARCH 16, 2022 - Responding to Forced Displacement Due to Climate Change
• MARCH 11, 2022 - Perspectives for Human Rights Based Approach in Canada
• FEBRUARY 22, 2022 - Democracy: Freedom, Human Rights, Rule of Law — Should Canadians Care?
• FEBRUARY 22, 2022 - #tresdancing: A Virtual Film Launch
• FEBRUARY 17, 2022 - Book Launch | What Lies Ahead?
• FEBRUARY 15, 2022 - Working for Human Rights Series with Alex Neve
• FEBRUARY 7, 2022 - Climate Change and Environmental Human Rights on the Tibetan Plateau
• FEBRUARY 7, 2022 - Brazil-Canada Dialogues (in Portuguese)
• JANUARY 18, 2022 - Economic Sanctions: Legal and Policy Implications
• DECEMBER 10, 2021 - Virtual Exhibition | IMAGES OF JUSTICE: Right to Housing
• DECEMBER 10, 2021 - Advancing Human Rights as a UN Special Rapporteur: Reflections from Three Canadians
• DECEMBER 9, 2021 - VOICES: Addressing the Ongoing Genocides against the Rohingya and Uyghurs
• DECEMBER 3, 2021 - Why Reconciliation Fails Indigenous Peoples and How to Fix It: A Conversation around Bruce McIvor’s Standoff
• NOVEMBER 30, 2021 - David Petrasek Memorial Forum 2021 | Climate Change, Migration, Human Rights & Conflict: Vital Interdependence
• NOVEMBER 26, 2021 - Participation of Women in the Judiciary and Prosecutorial Offices
• NOVEMBER 24, 2021 - Coming In from the Cold: Canada's National Housing Strategy, Homelessness, and the Right to Housing in a Transnational Perspective
• NOVEMBER 18, 2021 - Canada Behind Bars: A Conversation on Immigration Detention
• NOVEMBER 16, 2021 - Nonreligion, Social Changes and Human Rights
• NOVEMBER 1st, 2021 - CALL for ARTISTS | IMAGES of JUSTICE 2021: Right to Housing
• OCTOBER 21, 2021 - Working for Human Rights Series with Marie-Claude Landry
• OCTOBER 14, 2021 - TAIPEILOVE* -- Film & Discussion on Marriage Equality and LGBTQ+ Rights in Taiwan
• OCTOBER 6, 2021 - VOICES: Activists in Exile. Agents of Change.
• SEPTEMBER 22, 2021 - The Impacts of the Pandemic on the Administration of Justice

The Human Rights Research and Education Centre (HRREC) was pleased to participate, in partnership with CONTEKST, THE SHIFT, the Faculty of Law, Common Law Section, the Ryerson Lincoln Alexander School of Law, and The Law Foundation of Ontario, in the third edition of IMAGES of JUSTICE: The Right to Housing! 

• A Call for Artists was launched until November 1st, 2021