Professor Brenda Cossman has been awarded the Ludwik and Estelle Jus Memorial Human Rights Prize by the University of Toronto for her work as Professor of Law and as Director of the Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies. 

This prize is awarded to an individual who has made a positive and lasting contribution in one or more of the areas of education and action against discrimination; supporting the University’s mission to realize an exemplary degree of equity and diversity; and extending our knowledge as a consequence of our diversity.   

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.