presents:
Carmen Cheung
Acting Director, International Human Rights Program
Holding Canada to Account: Challenges to enforcing international human rights at home
March 11, 2013
12:30-2:00pm
University of Toronto, Faculty of Law
Flavelle House, 78 Queen’s Park
FLA
(Lunch will be served)
Please join the IHRP’s new Acting Director for a lunchtime conversation.
Carmen joins the IHRP from the BC Civil Liberties Association, where she served as Senior Counsel, with an expertise in issues relating to national security and international human rights. While at the BCCLA, Carmen acted as counsel in public interest cases, including the Afghanistan Public Interest Hearing, which looked into the transfer of Afghan detainees by Canadian Forces to risk of torture. She also acted on behalf of the BCCLA in legal challenges to the 1267 Regime in Canada and the use of long-term solitary confinement in Canadian prisons. She has appeared before the House of Commons on matters relating to national security and civil liberties, and is the author of a report on UN terrorist blacklists and their use in Canada.
For more information, contact ihrp.law@utoronto.ca
