Dear CAHRI Colleagues,

You are most welcome to join us for tomorrow’s Vigod Memorial Lecture in Human Rights, where we will hear firsthand about the recent developments at the UN Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva that resulted in formal endorsement of the right to a healthy environment as a human right:

The Atlantic Human Rights Centre presents

the Annual Vigod Memorial Lecture in Human Rights:

The Transformative Potential of the Human Right to a Healthy Environment

Delivered by Dr. David Boyd, UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment

Thursday, October 14, 2021 ONLINE

7.00 p.m. ADT

(6.00 p.m. EDT, 5.00 p.m. CDT, 4.00 p.m. MDT, 3.00 p.m. PDT)

Event in English. Free and open to all. Please spread the word to others who may be interested.

To attend you must register in advance at www/stu.ca/vigod

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.