home Research and innovation Human Rights Research and Education Centre chevron_right Outreach chevron_right Scholars at Risk (SAR) uOttawa SAR uOttawa | News SAR uOttawa | News 2023 Call for papers for the Coalition for Academic Freedom in the Americas (CAFA) Visiting researcher Shabnam Salehi speaks out about the situation in Afghanistan Podcast | Listen to the SAR Free to Think podcast, episode 31, with SAR Scholar Zahra Hakimi & host Rob Quinn on her incredible journey, including several attempts to escape Afghanistan Podcast | Listen to the SAR Free to Think podcast, episode 29, with Salvador Herencia-Carrasco & host Rob Quinn on the recent protests and university arrests in Lima, Peru Interview | HRREC Assistant Director Viviana Fernandez interviewed by the Network Academics under Threat SAR uOttawa | News 2022 arrow_drop_down First conference of the Coalition for Academic Freedom in the Americas (CAFA) Visiting researcher Shabnam Salehi received a DVF award HRREC supports the InterConectados Network through CAFA From Kyiv to Ottawa: Olha Chernovol finds a new academic home at Fauteux Hall CAFA's Call for Paper for the 1st Regional Conference on Academic Freedom in the Americas New website for the Coalition for Academic Freedom in the Americas The University of Ottawa Welcomes Two Scholars at Risk Viviana Fernandez Commented on the Impact of the War in Ukraine in Canadian Academia in an Article by University Affairs Viviana Fernandez Interviewed by the Canadian Association of University Teacher (CAUT) on the Situation of Scholars at Risk in Canada HRREC Members Isaac Nahon-Serfaty and Catalina Arango in The Conversation: University Communities Are Essential to Protect Individual Freedom (in French) SAR in the Americas: SAR uOttawa Monitoring Report 2020-2021 to Analyze Regional Trends - LINK AGAIN Principles on Academic Freedom to Defend Universities SAR uOttawa | News 2021 arrow_drop_down Viviana Fernandez Interviewed about the Canadian Response to Afghan Refugee Crisis in University Affairs A New Hub to Protect Academic Freedom in the Americas HRREC Signs MOU with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Statement on Court Case Against Professor Jan Grabowski - 10.02.2021 SAR uOttawa | News 2020 arrow_drop_down In June 2020, the HRREC Human Rights Clinic submitted a report to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression to support the upcoming report on the Rights to Academic Freedom. Read the Report "Threats to Academic Freedom in the Americas" here (PDF in English). In March 2020, SAR uOttawa and the University of Ottawa launched a fundraising campaign. By contributing to the Scholars at Risk Program Fund, you will help advance freedom of thought, as well as allow researchers to contribute their knowledge to the world.
