“Working with Journalists: Human Rights, Research and the Realities of the Newsroom” with Lenard Monkman (CBC Indigenous) and Helen Fallding (former political reporter with the Winnipeg Free Press)
An interactive workshop Thursday March 10th at 730-9pm via Zoom. Bring your story ideas!
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Join us for an interactive workshop where you will have a chance to pitch your own story ideas and get feedback.
Please pre-register: https://bit.ly/36jQ6VU
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The Human Rights Program at St. Paul's University College at the University of Waterloo is looking to hire a sessional instructor to teach HRTS 305/INDG 305 Indigenous Rights in Global Context in Winter 2023.
Please circulate this notice to anyone who might be interested in applying. Applications are currently being accepted and will remain open until the position is filled.
Any questions can be directed to Prof. Anna Purkey at apurkey(a)uwaterloo.ca<mailto:apurkey@uwaterloo.ca>
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Academic Unit: Human Rights Program, St. Paul’s University College at the University of Waterloo
Semester of assignment: Winter 2023
Course Number: HRTS 305/INDG 305 Indigenous Rights in Global Context
Course format: Lecture
Course description: A comparative examination of the rights challenges faced by diverse Indigenous peoples around the globe. Special attention will be given to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and work being done to protect and advance the rights it enshrines. (Prereq: HRTS 101 or INDG 201)
Estimated course enrolment: 12
Schedule and delivery: in-person (1h20, 2x/week or 1x3hrs)
Salary: $8822 (+4% vacation pay)
Qualifications: The successful applicant will have previous experience teaching a similar course at the university level and/or appropriate academic qualifications (at least a Masters degree).
Description of duties:
* Teaching at the undergraduate level
* Developing the syllabus
* Offering weekly office hours for academic counseling
* Preparing and delivering course material
* Preparing and delivering assignments and tests
* Marking student work and submitting grades
Application procedure:
All individuals interested in this posting must submit the following documentation to Dr. Anna Purkey apurkey(a)uwaterloo.ca<mailto:apurkey@uwaterloo.ca>
* A cover letter stating your intent to apply for the position (including contact information) and highlighting your experience with the subject matter
* An updated Curriculum Vitae listing your academic qualifications and relevant employment experience
* Names and contact information for two references.
* Any candidate that is short-listed will be required to submit a draft course outline for assessment.
Posting will remain open until the position has been filled. Course offerings are tentative, pending funding and sufficient student enrollments.
St. Paul’s is proud to have a diverse faculty group. We welcome applications from all qualified individuals including women, Indigenous people, members of visible minorities and persons with disabilities. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadian citizens and permanent residents will be given priority in the recruitment process.
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Anna Lise Purkey, DCL, LLM, BCL/LLB, Barreau du Quebec
Program Director & Assistant Professor of Human Rights
St. Paul's University College, at the University of Waterloo
apurkey(a)uwaterloo.ca
613-606-4076
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Our College is situated on lands deeply connected to Indigenous peoples who have historically lived, and who currently live, in this territory. These groups include the Neutral, Anishinaabeg, and Haudenosaunee peoples. We recognize that these lands have always been the source of learning for Indigenous peoples. As an educational institution, we are committed to respecting the traditional knowledge that Indigenous peoples have derived from these lands and to learning from their experiences on them.
Greetings CAHRI Colleagues,
I hope you are all well, safe and healthy!
Attached is the Winter 2022 edition of the Atlantic Human Rights Centre's Human Rights News. Under separate cover, you should have also received an invitation to the 2022 Lodhi Memorial Lecture in Human Rights, which this year will be given by Dr John Borrows on the theme of 'The Resurgence of Indigenous Law', taking place on Thursday March 3 at 7.00 pm AST online via Zoom. Registration information was included in the invitation and is also provided in the newsletter attached.
You would be most welcome and I hope to see you there.
Meanwhile, all the best.
Shannonbrooke
Dr Shannonbrooke Murphy
Endowed Chair in Human Rights
Assistant Professor, Human Rights Department
Acting Director, Atlantic Human Rights Centre
St Thomas University
51 Dineen Drive, Fredericton NB E3B 5G3
Office: Holy Cross House Room 108 (+1) 506-452-9653
We recognize and respectfully acknowledge that the land on which St. Thomas University is situated is the unsurrendered and unceded traditional territory of the Wolastoqiyik.
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Greetings CAHRI Colleagues,
The Atlantic Human Rights Centre invites you to the 2022 Abdul Q. Lodhi Memorial Lecture in Human Rights, “The Resurgence of Indigenous Law in Canada” with Dr. John Borrows, on Thursday, March 3rd at 7:00 p.m. AST via Zoom.
Dr. Borrows is the Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Law and Professor at the University of Victoria Faculty of Law.
About the lecture, he says: “Indigenous peoples use law to regulate their affairs and resolve their disputes. Indigenous law functions through standards, principles, criteria, measures, guideposts, tradition, precedent, and processes to provide intellectual and cultural resources for making decisions.
“Indigenous law is growing in force and importance and this talk will discuss how and why this is occurring. In the process, legislatures, courts, corporations, law schools and other institutions in Canada are increasingly having to grapple with Indigenous law and Canadian law related to Indigenous peoples. This talk will discuss how Indigenous peoples’ law is an increasingly active force across the land.”
Dr. Borrows is the author of books including Recovering Canada: The Resurgence of Indigenous Law (Donald Smiley Award for Best Book in Canadian Political Science, 2002), Canada’s Indigenous Constitution (Canadian Law and Society Best Book Award 2011), Drawing out Law: A Spirit’s Guide (2010), Freedom and Indigenous Constitutionalism (Donald Smiley Award for Best Book in Canadian Political Science, 2016), The Right Relationship (with Michael Coyle, ed.), Resurgence and Reconciliation (with Michael Asch, Jim Tully, eds.), and Law’s Indigenous Ethics (2020 Best Subsequent Book Award from Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, 2020 W. Wes Pue Best Book Award from the Canadian Law and Society Association).
He is also the 2017 Killam Prize winner in Social Sciences and the 2019 Molson Prize winner from the Canada Council for the Arts, the 2020 Governor General’s Innovation Award winner, and the 2021 Canadian Bar Association President’s Award winner. He was appointed as an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2020. He is a member of the Chippewa of the Nawash First Nation in Ontario.
Please hold the date in your calendar and share with your students and anyone else who may be interested.
To register for the event, please click here<https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.z…>.
We look forward to having you join us.
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Dr Shannonbrooke Murphy
Acting Director, Atlantic Human Rights Centre
St Thomas University, Fredericton NB
McGill Centre for Human Rights & Legal Pluralism
February 2022 Newsletter
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Upcoming events:
* Feb 3: Wrongful Convictions with David Milgaard and Mugambi Jouet
* Feb 4: Theory and Praxis of Reparations: Perspectives from Canada and Colombia with Éloïse Ouellet-Décoste, Marjolaine Olwell, Yuri Romaña-Rivas, Laura Baron-Mendoza
* Feb 16: Human Trafficking seminar with Olivia Smith
* Feb 17: Indigenous Peoples & Global Challenges with Anne Nuorgam in conversation with Luisa Castaneda-Quintana
Upcoming Events
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Wrongful Convictions: An Ongoing Conversation with David Milgaard
Co-sponsored by the CHRLP and the Faculty of Law
with David Milgaard
Moderated by Mugambi Jouet
Thursday, February 3, 2:30 PM-4:00 PM (ET)
Zoom: click here<https://mcgill.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=876a0fb07443c2ba7a644f4f3&…> to access the event. For more information on the event, see here<https://mcgill.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=876a0fb07443c2ba7a644f4f3&…>.
About the speaker
David Milgaard spent over 22 years in prison for murder. He was innocent. His case would become a cause célèbre for miscarriages of justice. Since his exoneration, he has become an advocate for criminal justice reform and social justice in Canada.
Zoom Feb 3: https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/88106742159<https://mcgill.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=876a0fb07443c2ba7a644f4f3&…>.
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Theory and Praxis of Reparations: Perspectives from Canada and Colombia
A CHRLP talk
with Éloïse Ouellet-Décoste, Marjolaine Olwell, Yuri Romaña-Rivas, Laura Baron-Mendoza
Moderated by Frédéric Mégret
Friday, February 4, 2:30-4:00 PM (ET)
Zoom: click here<https://mcgill.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=876a0fb07443c2ba7a644f4f3&…> to access the event. For more information on the event, see here<https://mcgill.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=876a0fb07443c2ba7a644f4f3&…>.
In recent decades, claims for reparations of historic injustices have amplified, whether in the context of colonial wrongdoing against Indigenous Peoples, reparation for enslavement or compensation for victims of discriminatory laws targeting specific minority groups. Meanwhile, the emergence of transitional justice has sparked the normative development of the right to reparations. Drawing from the cases of Canada and Colombia, this panel will seek to address some of the core legal questions related to the State’s obligation to provide reparations for massive and/or State-sanctioned violations of human rights and breaches of International Humanitarian Law.
About the speakers
Éloïse Décoste is a Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation scholar and a LL.D. candidate at the Département des sciences juridiques of the Université du Québec à Montréal. Her doctoral research investigates the State’s obligation to provide reparation for colonial genocide in the context of ongoing settler colonialism. Read more about Éloïse here<https://mcgill.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=876a0fb07443c2ba7a644f4f3&…>.
Marjolaine Olwell currently acts as a legal advisor to the Canadian Specific Claims Tribunal. She is an S.J.D. candidate at the James E. Rogers College of Law, University of Arizona, in the Indigenous People’s Law and Policy Program, where she was an Assistant Professor of Practice. Read more about Marjolaine here<https://mcgill.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=876a0fb07443c2ba7a644f4f3&…>.
Yuri Romaña-Rivas is an Afro-Colombian lawyer specialized in International Human Rights Law and Transitional Justice. He is currently a D.C.L. candidate at McGill’s Faculty of Law and an O’Brien Fellow at the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism. His research focuses on the need to strengthen Colombia’s transitional justice reparation structures to effectively compensate and restore the rights of Afro-Colombian communities who are victims of the armed conflict. Read more about Yuri here<https://mcgill.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=876a0fb07443c2ba7a644f4f3&…>.
Laura Baron-Mendoza is a Colombian lawyer specialized in conflict resolution and currently works as a human rights advocacy officer for MADRE. She is also pursuing a D.C.L. at the McGill Faculty of Law, where she is an O’Brien Fellow at the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism. Her research focuses on the socio-legal challenges posed by the interactions between non-state armed actors and state law. Read more about Laura here<https://mcgill.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=876a0fb07443c2ba7a644f4f3&…>.
Zoom Feb 4: https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/86702678044<https://mcgill.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=876a0fb07443c2ba7a644f4f3&…>.
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Nobody’s Property - The Crime of Human Trafficking, the Who, Why and Where
with Olivia Smith
Moderated by François Crépeau
Wednesday, February 16, 1:00-2:30 PM (ET)
On Zoom: https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/84550952791<https://mcgill.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=876a0fb07443c2ba7a644f4f3&…>.
Through human trafficking, a person’s rights are violated in many ways. Human trafficking is not only a growing crime that crosses national and international borders it also surfaces on our streets. This talk will raise awareness and, clear up some common misconceptions surrounding human trafficking while providing participants with the basic tools to fight human trafficking in Canada.
About the speaker
Olivia Smith is an O’Brien Fellow in Residence at the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism researching in the areas of human trafficking and migration. She is a Consultant on labour migration and human trafficking and the Executive Director for the Caribbean Anti Human Trafficking Foundation. She has worked with several regional and international institutions including the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative (ABA ROLI) as Project Lead on Trafficking in Persons (Barbados) and with The British Institute of International and Comparative Law Institute (BIICL) as National Consultant on Human Trafficking in Guyana. Read more about Olivia here<https://mcgill.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=876a0fb07443c2ba7a644f4f3&…>.
Zoom Feb 16: https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/84550952791<https://mcgill.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=876a0fb07443c2ba7a644f4f3&…>.
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Indigenous Peoples & Global Challenges
Dialogues on Indigenous Peoples’ Territories: Stories of Resilience
Co-sponsored by the CHRLP and ILADA
with Anne Nuorgam in conversation with Luisa Castaneda-Quintana
Opening remarks by Frédéric Mégret and Simon Filiatrault
Thursday, February 17, 10:00-11:30 AM (ET)
On Zoom, registration required: https://mcgill.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIscuiuqzkqHNL4G35Wj2bLGdJnDnvLbfnu<https://mcgill.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=876a0fb07443c2ba7a644f4f3&…>.
For more information on the event, see here<https://mcgill.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=876a0fb07443c2ba7a644f4f3&…>.
About the speakers
Anne Nuorgam is a long-term Sámi politician and a lawyer who holds a Master of Law degree and is currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Lapland. She has been a member of the Sámi Parliament of Finland since 2000. Ms. Nuorgam is the Chair of Veahčanjárga Fishery. She has been working on reconciliation issues and now works as the Head of the Sámi Council’s Human Rights Unit. Ms. Nuorgam is the Chair of the UNPFII, elected in 2019 during the 18th session, and is currently conducting her second mandate.
Luisa Castaneda-Quintana is a DCL candidate at McGill University's Faculty of Law. She is conducting her research under the supervision of Prof. Victor Muñiz-Fraticelli, focusing on legal pluralism, extractive industries, resistance, and Indigenous Peoples' identity. Specifically, she analyzes how the Wiwa people's interactions with different normative orders in the context of extractivism have transformed their identity and forged various forms of resistance. Read more about Luisa here<https://mcgill.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=876a0fb07443c2ba7a644f4f3&…>.
Call for Submissions
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Do you have an upcoming or a recent article you would like to publicize? Or something to say that needs to be said?
The CHRLP also invites submissions for the fourth year of its Blog with an open call for blog posts. Interested authors are encouraged to draw inspiration from the theme "Solidarity in an Interconnected World". More information, including editorial guidelines, can be found in the following call for submissions<https://mcgill.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=876a0fb07443c2ba7a644f4f3&…>.
Submissions (in English, French, or Spanish) can be sent to human.rights(a)mcgill.ca<mailto:human.rights@mcgill.ca>.
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