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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, supported by François-Philippe Champagne, minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, has announced more than $518 million in research infrastructure funding for post-secondary institutions across Canada.

The AI + Society Initiative at the University of Ottawa is delighted to announce the release of AI & Health Care: A Fusion of Law & Science. An Introduction to the Issues, an initial finding report supported by CIFAR AI and Society Program and led by Dr. Colleen M. Flood.

On January 25, 2021, the HRREC Human Rights Clinic, in association with the International Human Rights Law Clinic of the University of Virginia Law School, the Due Process Law Foundation (DPLF), the International Commission of Jurists and the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Foundation, among others, filed an amicus brief to the Honduras Court of Appeals related to the arbitrary detention of 8 envir...

On February 1, 2021, the HRREC Human Rights Clinic, in association with Peruvian NGOs IDL (Instituto de Defensa Legal, a human Rights organization) and ORPIO (Organizacíon Regional de los Pueblos Indígenas del Oriente), filed a request of precautionary measures before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, seeking to protect Indigenous Peoples in Voluntary Isolation in Peru.

We are pleased to announce that Navraj Kaushik was awarded the Jacques Gaudreau Graduate Scholarship in International Human Rights Law for the academic year 2020-2021. This scholarship is awarded each year to an outstanding graduate student (Masters or Ph.D.) in the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa.

Congratulations to long-time HRREC member Aboubacar Dakuyo, who successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled “À la recherche d’un modèle de justice transitionnelle pour le Soudan du Sud (In Search of an Effective Transitional Justice Model for South Sudan)” last January 22. He was studying under the supervision of Professor Pacifique Manirakiza, HRREC academic member.

The Human Rights Research and Education Centre (HRREC) and the Scholars at Risk (SAR) uOttawa Program stand in support of Jan Grabowski, full Professor in the Department of History at the University of Ottawa, who was sued for libel in a Polish court along with Prof. Barbara Engelking, a Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, for their research relating to the Holocaust in Poland.

The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is delighted to welcome 49 fellows as part of the 2021 edition of its flagship program of Technoships, a unique research training program in technology law, ethics and policy for first-year students.