Biography Research Interests Human Rights Gender-based approaches to (sustainable) development Policy-making and Law United Nations human rights system Protection of minorities Representation and elections Slava (Veaceslav) Balan is a human rights researcher and practitioner, originally from Moldova, now settled in Canada. In 2008-2014 and 2015-2018 Slava work...
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Biography Ghuna Bdiwi is a lawyer and a human rights activist, with legal practice experiences in both Syria and Canada. In Syria, her practice focused on cases that involved arbitrary detention and torture of political detainees, while in Canada her legal work focuses on refugee and immigration law. Her legal work and activism are internationally recognised; the United Nations Special Envoy to Syria nominated her to be a member of the Syrian Constitutional Committee that is mandated to draft ...
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Biography Research Interests Human Rights in Mental Health Support for survivors of sexual abuse Canadian Policy toward Yemen Drivers of Violent Extremism Dr. Kawkab Alwadeai holds a Ph.D. in Mental Health and Counselling and was Assistant Professor in Mental Health at the, Yemen. In 2017 she served as "Activist in Residence" at the Centre for Women and Sec...
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Biography Research interests Criminal Law Human Rights Constitutional Law Inter-American Law Pierre Gilles Bélanger is a Canadian lawyer who has shown leadership in crucial areas related to democracy and law in the Americas over the past 25 years. From 2000 to 2007, still linked to the Government of Canada, he was the coordinator of an expert working group ...
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Biography Research Interests Human Rights Violations Social Change Through Art Practice Digital Culture And Education Political Art For Innovation And Improving Ph.D. (2021), M.F.A. (2011) and B.F.A. (2009) at the University of Seville. M.T. at the University of Valencia (2010). Currently, Faculty Member of Fine Arts at the University of Seville (Spain), te...
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Biography Jennifer Bond holds degrees in law, literature, and business and has been called to the Bars of Ontario and British Columbia.  She completed her graduate work at the Yale Law School as a John Peters Humphrey Fellow in International Human Rights Law and clerked at the Alberta Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada. She is currently serving as Cha...
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Biography  Research Interests Identity documentation Barriers to migration studies Geographies of health and health systems Global education Ethics in research and development Nadia Abu-Zahra has broad interests in health, environmental issues, human rights, and education. Working with Oxfam-Quebec, and on other projects sponsored by UNICEF, the EU, and CI...
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Biography Mr. Campbell, Former Executive Director of Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA), widely recognized as Canada’s leading progressive think tank, started a yearlong Fellowship funded by the Law Foundation of Ontario. His work will focus on public disasters and associated regulatory failure. Specifically, he will further his study of the Lac-Mégantic rai...
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