IHRP & Sponsors

International Human Rights Program

The International Human Rights Program (IHRP) of the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law is dedicated to promoting global human rights through legal education, research and advocacy. The mission of the International Human Rights Program is to mobilize lawyers to address international human rights issues and to develop the capacity of students and program participants to establish human rights norms in domestic and international contexts.

Director Noah Novogrodsky is an experienced human rights advocate who has worked in Eritrea, South Africa, Cambodia and Sierra Leone. He can be contacted at 416 978 5540, or by email at noah.novogrodsky@utoronto.ca

• The IHRP welcomes human rights lawyers to the Faculty from diverse countries and cultures and provides them with the opportunity to broaden their knowledge, gain new perspectives, sharpen their skills, and build the networks of relationships needed to meet the demands of justice on a global scale.
• The IHRP uses its teaching and research capacity to equip and inspire graduates to recognize, employ and advance international human rights law and principles in their work.
• The IHRP uses its advocacy capacity to provide high quality, dedicated and imaginative legal services through the international human rights clinic and in select international cases and consultancies.
• Finally, the IHRP uses its public profile to create a safe space for students, human rights organizations, activists and practitioners to forge new partnerships, engage in constructive dialogue and increase our society's collective pool of knowledge and understanding of human rights.

Visit the IHRP's homepage at the University of Toronto Law School for more information: http://www.law.utoronto.ca/programs/ihrp.html

Human Rights Watch

Human Rights Watch is the largest human rights organization based in the United States. Human Rights Watch researchers conduct fact-finding investigations into human rights abuses in all regions of the world. Human Rights Watch then publishes those findings in dozens of books and reports every year, generating extensive coverage in local and international media. This publicity helps to embarrass abusive governments in the eyes of their citizens and the world. Human Rights Watch then meets with government officials to urge changes in policy and practice -- at the United Nations, the European Union, in Washington and in capitals around the world

Law Society of Upper Canada

The Law Society of Upper Canada is the self-governing body for lawyers in Ontario. The primary responsibility or mandate of the Law Society is to regulate the legal profession in the public interest according to Ontario law and the Law Society's rules, regulations and guidelines.

The Law Society of Upper Canada exists to govern the legal profession in the public interest by:

• ensuring that the people of Ontario are served by lawyers who meet high standards of learning, competence and professional conduct; and
• upholding the independence, integrity and honour of the legal profession; for the purpose of advancing the cause of justice and the rule of law.

InCAT.org

International Coalition Against Torture (InCAT.org), headquartered in Toronto, Canada, is a widely ambitious non-governmental organization aiming at providing legal aid for victims of torture, and at pursuing justice in a court of law by holding the perpetrators and violating states responsible for their actions.

Rights & Democracy

Rights & Democracy is a Canadian institution with an international mandate. It is an independent organization, which promotes, advocates and defends the democratic and human rights set out in the International Bill of Human Rights. In cooperation with civil society and governments in Canada and abroad, Rights & Democracy initiates and supports programmes to strengthen laws ans democratic institutions, principally in developing countries

Address:
1001 de Maisonneuve Blvd. East, Suite 1100, Montreal (Quebec) Canada H2L 4P9
Tel.: (514) 283-6073 / Fax: (514) 283-3792 / dd-rd@dd-rd.ca / www.dd-rd.ca

Amnesty International

Amnesty International is a worldwide movement of "ordinary" people who work together to achieve extraordinary results. Each day we stand in solidarity with - and help protect - individuals and communities around the world whose human rights are under attack. We appeal for the violations to stop. We mobilize public pressure to prevent human rights abuses from taking place. And we support Amnesty's campaigns through our financial contributions.

Expose the truth, speak out, create change