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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
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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 to access the event. For more information on the event, see
here.
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.
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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 to access the event. For more information on the event, see
here.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Zoom Feb 4: https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/86702678044.
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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.
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.
Zoom Feb 16: https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/84550952791.
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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.
For more information on the event, see
here.
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
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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.
Submissions (in English, French, or Spanish) can be sent to
human.rights@mcgill.ca. |
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