SAR uOttawa | News
- 15.05.2025 - Viviana Fernandez represented CAFA in the SAR International Advisory Committee
- 28.04.2025 - Who gets to speak? The Public Law Centre and its partners explores academic freedom in a changing world
HRREC was a partner in the organization of this workshop on academic freedom. - 10.03.2025 - Call for Papers: Conflict, Democratic Backsliding, and Diaspora Politics in Canada
Dr. Bantayehu Chanie, Dr. Christina Clark-Kazak, and Dr. Philippe M. Frowd, researchers at the Center for International Policy Studies (CIPS) at the University of Ottawa, are seeking paper submissions from interested academics and researchers in Canada and internationally for a new project titled “Conflict, Democratic Backsliding, and Diaspora Politics.” - 13.02.2025 - Research | HRREC academic member Christina Clark-Kazak, visiting researcher Bantayehu Shiferaw Chanie and their co-applicant Philippe Frowd are the 2024/2025 winners of the CIPS Research Initiatives (CRI) competition for their project titled “Conflict, Democratic Backsliding, and Diaspora Politics in Canada”. This research project examines diaspora groups in Canada and their links to transnational movements for peace and conflict, as well as democracy or democratic backsliding.
- 05.02.2025 - Viviana Fernandez contributes to UNESCO Guidelines for Universities Hosting Human Rights Defenders
- 16.01.2025 - Blog | Our visiting researcher Bantayehu Shiferaw Chanie in the CIPS Blog: Understanding the Conflict in Ethiopia’s Amhara Region
- 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
- 25.11.2024 - HRREC members participated in the third Conference on academic freedom in the Americas
- 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
- 08.10.2024 - The University of Ottawa Scholars at Risk program welcomes new scholar in the Faculty of Arts
- 09.09.2024 - HRREC Fellow Ohla Chernovol among four University of Ottawa researchers inducted into the Royal Society of Canada
- 03.09.2024 - Olha Chernovol elected to Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars
- 19.06.2024 - Article | In The Conversation, our academic member, Professor Christina Clark-Kazak & our visiting scholar hosted at the uOttawa GSPIA, Bantayehu Chanie, discuss how Canada's immigration policy for Sudanese people is an inadequate response to the scale and severity of displacement in the country
- 18.06.2024 - Blog | Our visiting researcher Bantayehu Shiferaw Chanie in the CIPS Blog: Why Canada should take a stronger stance against Ethiopian drone warfare
- 21.05.2024 - CAFA statement on academic freedom and peaceful protest on university grounds
- 06.02.2024 - Interview | Read the interview between our member Salvador Herencia and journalist Jessica Malutama from La Rotonde about the crisis in Ecuador (in French)
- 01.02.2024 - The University of Ottawa Scholars at Risk program welcomes new scholar
- 16.01.2024 - Call for papers for the CAFA conference on academic freedom in the Americas 2024
