Biography Current Research Interests Corporate responsibility Human rights violations B.A. (UBC), LL.M. (Cantab.), Ph.D. (Cantab.) LL.B. (Dalhousie), of the Bar of British Columbia Penelope Simons is an Associate Professor and Vice Dean Research at the Faculty of Law (Common Law Section), and the Gordon F. Henderson Chair in Human Rights at the Human Rights ...
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Biography Research Interests Access to justice Gender-based violence Feminism Arctic governance Gloria Song is a Ph.D. candidate in law, studying under Dr. Angela Cameron and Dr. Jackie Dawson as part of the Environment, Society and Policy Group research team at the University of Ottawa. Her doctoral research focuses on access to justice in Nunavut, wi...
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Biography Full Biography  Research Interests Indigenous Peoples' Rights (Taiwan) Self-Determination Taiwan's Place in the Indo-Pacific Ph.D., Anthropologie (Université McGill, Montréal, 1998) | M.A., Anthropologie (Université McGill, Montréal, 1994) | B.A., Études est-asiatiques et Études d'allemand (Université d'Indiana, Bloomington, 1988) Scott Simon spe...
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Biography Shabnam Salehi, a Visiting researcher at the University of Ottawa hosted by the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs and the Human Rights Research and Education Centre , is a scholar and a prominent women's rights activist from Afghanistan.She started her academic journey in 2012 when she became an assistant professor at Kabul University. Since ...
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Biography Núria Reguart-Segarra is a Ph.D. Student, Lecturer and Researcher in training at Jaume I University of Castellón, Spain. She holds a Law degree from that university, which awarded her the Extraordinary Award in the Law degree referring to the academic year 2014-15, along with a Diploma in academic performance in the Law degree. She has also been granted a Cert...
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Biography Mr. Raeesi has practiced Criminal and Human Rights law in Shiraz, Iran for 20 years and served as a board member of the Fars Province Bar Association for two terms. He was the founder and former head of the Human Rights Committee of the Fars Province Bar Association for eight years. He is also the founder of Neday-e Edalat (The Voice of Justice) Legal Associat...
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Biography Fiorella Rabuffetti is a PhD candidate at the School of Political Studies of the University of Ottawa. She earned her BA from the Universidad de la República (Uruguay), and her MA from the University of Alberta. She works on the relationship between violence, politics, and law. Her doctoral dissertation seeks to better understand statelessness, legally define...
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Biography Current Research Interests Domestic and international refugee law and policy Protracted refugee situations Transitional justice Legal empowerment and human rights-based approaches Anna Purkey is the 2015-2016 Gordon F. Henderson Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Ottawa. In 2015 Anna successfully completed her Doctorate of Civil Law at McGill Un...
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Biography Research Interests Imprisonment and human rights Alternatives to incarceration Penal reform and abolition Justin Piché is an Associate Professor in the Department of Criminology at the University of Ottawa. For more than a decade, he has been engaged in action research projects that examine how state authorities incorporate and neutralize critiques of, ...
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Biography Research InterestsChildren's rightsRights of persons with a disabilityInternational Human RightsLes recherches de Mona Paré portent sur des domaines dans lesquels ella a oeuvré avant de se joindre à la Section de droit civil en 2007. Elle a travaillé pour des organisations des droits de la personne et des droits des enfants, y compris les enfants de la rue, &n...
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