International Human Rights Law

SJD student Joanna Langille and alumnus Ryan Liss '11 (now a graduate student at Yale Law School) have written a commentary in The Globe and Mail in response to the government of Canada's decision to withdraw from the 1994 Convention to Combat Desertification ("It’s not just the drought treaty: In international law, Canada has withered," March 29, 2013).

By Lucianna Ciccocioppo

After a long flight from Libya that landed in in a major Toronto snowstorm, Alaa Murabit, the 23-year-old co-founder of the grassroots Voice of Libyan Women movement, gave the keynote address at the Sexual  Violence in Libya and Syria Conference held on February 8, 2013 at the Faculty of Law.

By Andrea Russell, executive director, Dean’s Office

The Faculty of Law welcomed back alumnus James Stewart, LLB 1975, who was  recently elected deputy prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague.  The event was organized by the Faculty’s International Human Rights Program.

A new report published by the Faculty of Law's International Human Rights Program (IHRP) and child-rights organization Plan Canada finds that school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV) is a major factor threatening the education of children, especially young girls, in many countries of the world, including Canada.

The International Human Rights Program has published the latest issue of its magazine Rights Review. This issue follows the experiences of IHRP summer interns in countries across the globe.  Throughout these internships, IHRP interns engaged in diverse human rights issues ranging from rights to health to international justice mechanisms.

Prof. Anver Emon is the co-editor, with Mark Ellis and Benjamin Glahn, of a new collection of essays published by Oxford University Press, Islamic Law and International Human Rights Law (2012).