Ottawa Convention to ban antipersonnel landmines: Disability perspectives

A panel discussion brought to you by Disability & the Law, in collaboration with the Human Rights Working Group & the McGill International Law Society.

The Ottawa Convention is a distinctly Canadian international convention that has been heavily promoted and sponsored by the Canadian government since the mid 1990's. One of the most controversial aspects of the convention is article six, which calls for the social and physical rehabilitation and reintegration of landmine victims. This article is widely thought to have paved the way for the recently adopted International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

Over ten years after the signing of the Ottawa Convention, how is the convention being implemented? Have the actual problems of landmine survivors in developing countries been addressed? Our expert panel will address these topics and many more.

We will be joined by Cameron Macauley, a health specialist from Survivor Corps who works with landmine survivors all over the world; Christa McMillin, a program officer for Mines Action Canada, an NGO which helped to bring the Ottawa Convention to the forefront of the Canadian diplomatic agenda in the 1990's; and Anne Woodbridge, the Mine Action Director for the Canadian International Development Agency.

Please join us for this special event, engage our panelists, and enjoy light refreshments afterwards. All are welcome; the discussion will be in English, with questions in French or English.

Sponsors

Thank you to our sponsors: the Law Students Association, the Student Society of McGill University, the Dean's Discretionary Fund, the McGill Alumni Association, the Quebec Public Interest Research Group and the Center for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism.