• Common Law Student Gains Invaluable First-Hand Experience in Peace Negotiations

• Article | Amira Maameri in Revue Juriste International: The child and the lawyer in child protection - French-Quebec comparative law (in French)

• Blog | Director John Packer & Alex Trebek Postdoc Ghuna Bdiwi in the CIPS Blog: Canada Must Protect Activists-in-Exile Against Transnational Repression

• Blog | Our member Scott Simon in the CIPS Blog: What the Indo-Pacific Strategy Means for Indigenous Peoples

• Blog | Our member Scott Simon in the CIPS Blog: What’s Behind Taiwan’s “Blue Wave”?

• HRREC members contribute to international conference on children in armed conflict

• HRREC is a partner of the CPIJ, recipient of the SSHRC 2022 Partnership Award

• Opinion | Isaac Nahón-Serfaty in the Ottawa Citizen: Canada should end its tolerant stance toward Cuba's dictatorship

• HRREC members met with Pramila Patten

• Everyone’s Rights & Freedoms, a political cartoon bulletin

• First conference of the Coalition for Academic Freedom in the Americas (CAFA)

• HRREC member Jennifer Bond and long-time collaborator of the centre, Professor Alan Rock, participated in the final uOttawa Chancellor’s Debate on the need to find solutions for refugees

• Artificial intelligence in schools: Open dialogue between youth and policymakers

• Crisis as catalyst for change: Professor Karen Eltis discusses how technology is transforming our courts

• Visiting researcher Shabnam Salehi received a DVF award

• Interview | Listen to John Packer's radio interview on CFRA Live with Andrew Pinsent about the unfolding situation in Haiti

• Article | Professor Scott Simons in the Macdonald-Laurier Institute Papers: Navigating Canada-Taiwan relations: Why Canada needs a renewed strategy to help safeguard peace in the Taiwan Strait

• Germain-Brière Conference 2022 (in French)

• Dean Sylvestre receives the distinction of Emeritus Lawyer (in French)

• HRREC supports the InterConectados Network through CAFA

• Activists-in-Exile: Professor John Packer leads a workshop to give voice to the politically persecuted

• Viviana Fernandez at the 2022 conference of AHRI in South Africa

• Opinion | Mona Paré in the CBA/ABC National: Courts are not substitutes for human rights tribunals

• From Kyiv to Ottawa: Olha Chernovol finds a new academic home at Fauteux Hall

• Congratulations to our member Adam R. Houston!

• HRREC welcomes Ashley Barnes
• Opinion | Professor John Packer and colleagues in The Hill Times: Five years since 2017 exodus, concrete action is needed on Rohingya refugees
• Opinion | HRREC Member Ravi Malhotra and his colleague Jacqueline Moizer in the Ottawa Citizen: Let's build an accessible post-pandemic Canada
• Comment | Our academic member Meredith Terretta on Canada's visa denials to African researchers in the Globe and Mail

• Blog | Our member Scott Simon in the CIPS Blog: The Legacy of Abe Shinzō

• John Packer in Barcelona

• CAFA's Call for Paper for the 1st Regional Conference on Academic Freedom in the Americas
• Jabeur Fathally appointed Director of HRREC for one year
• 2019 Embassy of Canada in Venezuela Human Rights Award Winner Visited HRREC
• HRREC and CONTEKST Bring Arts & Human Rights to the Senate
• HRREC Hosts Session with the Netherlands Ambassador for Human Rights

• Andrea Khan presented at the 8th Conference ISCI in Brazil

• HRREC member professor Jane Bailey appointed to the Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner’s Strategic Advisory Council

• New Website for the Coalition for Academic Freedom in the Americas
• The University of Ottawa Welcomes Two Scholars at Risk
• Professor João Velloso Creates New Forum to Study Legal Responses to Social Problems
• Viviana Fernandez Commented on the Impact of the War in Ukraine in Canadian Academia in an Article by University Affairs
• Blog | Graduate Student Sukhchain Singh and Professor John Packer in the CIPS Blogs : What Was Behind the Indian Farmer's Protests?
• Call for Cartoonists | Everyone's Rights & Freedom — A Political Cartoon Bulletin by Contekst and the HRREC (Deadline: August 31)
• Interview | Neuberger-Jesin Professor John Packer on CBC News, on Investigating Human Rights Abuses and Alleged War Crimes in Russia's War on Ukraine
• Interview | John Packer on the CBC Ottawa Morning with Robyn Bresnahan on Russia's War Crimes in Ukraine: Proving War Crimes in Court Is Not So Simple
• Blog | John Packer and HRREC Members Nadia Abu-Zhara and Philip Leech-Ngo in the CIPS Blogs : Expedience over Justice — Implications of the Fate of the Khashoggi Trial for Activists-in-Exile
• Salvador Herencia Comments on the Peruvian Constitutional Court’s Judgement of the Fujimori Case
• Ghuna Bdiwi cited by the Middle East News
• Interview | Neuberger-Jesin Professor John Packer, on CBC News with Natasha Fatah, Explains the Rules of Engagement in Russia's War on Ukraine
• Statement of the CAHRI on the Russian Aggression against Ukraine | 01.03.2022
• HRREC Endorses AHRI’ Statement on the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
• Welcome to Visiting Researcher Ümmühan Elçin Ertuğrul

• News | João Velloso Featured in the Ottawa Citizen: A uOttawa Law Professor Who Studies Protests Has Boots on the Ground

• New Graduate at HRREC! (in French)
• Viviana Fernandez Interviewed by the Canadian Association of University Teacher (CAUT) on the Situation of Scholars at Risk in Canada
• Human Rights Clinic: Internship with Real World Impact!
• Interview | Radio-Canada's Isabelle Richer Interviews Professor Mona Paré About Children in a Quarter of the Trucks in Ottawa (in French)
• On the Ongoing Rohingya Genocide Case at the International Court of Justice
• IMAGES of JUSTICE: Right to Housing | Discover the Winners and Visit the Virtual Gallery!
• Opinion | HRREC Members Catalina Arango and Professor Isaac Nahon-Serfaty in University Affairs - Lessons from Iran: When Academic Freedom is Undermined, Fear Reigns .
• SAR in the Americas: SAR uOttawa Monitoring Report 2020-2021 to Analyze Regional Trends
• Book | Edited by Professor Mona Paré and her colleagues Mariëlle Bruning, Thierry Moreau, Caroline Siffrein-Blanc - Children's Access to Justice (in French)
• Welcome Ghuna Bdiwi, Alex Trebek Postdoctoral Fellow!
• Grants | Congratulations to Our Members Who Received Grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council: André Laliberté & Scott Simon (Connection); Karine Vanthuyne (Insight Development)
• John Packer’s Address at the French National Assembly Leads to the Adoption of a Resolution to Recognize the Uyghur Genocide
• Welcome to Fulbright Canada Chair Julia Hernandez!

• Read the Activity Report by Professor Meredith Terretta, Holder of the Gordon F. Henderson Chair from 2016 to 2021

• Comments | Professor Karen Eltis in The Hill Times Article ‘We’ll Have to Put the Light on It’: Politicos and Privacy Experts Urge Investigation into PHAC’s Collection of Cellphone Data

• Article | HRREC Member David DesBaillets and Co-Author Sarah E. Hamill in the Canadian Journal of Law and Society - Coming in From the Cold: Canada's National Housing Strategy, Homelessness, and the Right To Housing in a Transnational Perspective

• David Hughes Accepted an Assistant Professor Position at the Canadian Forces College

• Article | HRREC Members Isaac Nahon-Serfaty and Catalina Arango in The Conversation: University Communities Are Essential to Protect Individual Freedom (in French)

• Congratulations to Former HRREC Director Edward J. Ratushny Promoted to the Order of Canada for his Contributions to the Field of Administrative Law, and for his Leadership in Sports Arbitration and Law

• Malorie Kanaan Is the Recipient of the Jacques Gaudreau Graduate Scholarship

• Principles on Academic Freedom to Defend Universities

• Neuberger-Jesin Professor John Packer and Ph.D. Student Fu-Wei Chang Awarded a Research Grant

• Advocating at the United Nations in New York for the Inclusion of Minorities

• HRREC Director Addresses 14th Session of United Nations Forum on Minority Issues

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News 2020