Chiara Fish, a third-year student at the Faculty,
shares her experiences working as a human rights intern in Iqaluit,
from helping with legal research to representing clients during
bail hearings.
By Mark Ordonselli
A teenage Inuk boy awaits his bail hearing in a cell in Iqaluit,
Nunavut. "He's there because he assaulted his girlfriend, and
he's bawling," says third-year McGill Law student Chiara Fish.
"He may not understand what he's done wrong, because he's grown
up in a house with so much violence, and we're putting him in
jail..." Continue
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