Tuesday, February 28, 2023 - 4:40pm
Location: 
J125 Dentons Canada LLP Classroom

Please join us on Wednesday April 5, 2023 from 9am to 12pm (in person or virtually) for a workshop with Victor Rodriguez Rescia from Costa Rica hosted by the International Human Rights Program (IHRP) and Canadian Lawyers for International Human Rights (CLAIHR). The workshop is intended to train current and future human rights defenders in strategic human rights litigation using the international mechanisms for the protection of human rights of the United Nations, the Inter-American system of human rights (composed of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights), and other international organisms, such as the International Labor Organization (“ILO”).

Light breakfast provided.

Objectives

• To provide participants with a practical and operational knowledge of the theoretical and practical aspects of the Inter-American System for the Protection of Human Rights and the United Nations System as they relate to their impact in Canada, which will allow them to develop the necessary capacity to apply international human rights law as domestic law.
• Develop and strengthen litigation skills for the full and effective protection of human rights, through the preparation and presentation of emblematic cases, mainly on issues of social impact before the universal human rights system of the United Nations in its various Committees and Special Rapporteurships and Working Groups with a focus on strategic litigation.
• Application of precedents emanating from the various international human rights protection bodies to domestic law in Canada.

Víctor Rodríguez Rescia is a former member of the UN Human Rights Committee and Assistant Secretary of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, a human rights professor, and the President of the Inter-American Institute of Social Responsibility and Human Rights (IIRESODH) and CCPR-Centre.

Registration and Zoom details to follow.

Email contact: sandra.wisner@utoronto.ca