BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260531T075949EDT-76726UCfGb@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20260531T115949Z DESCRIPTION:(En anglais seulement) The Centre for Human Rights & Legal Plur alism presents\n\nMe Éloïse Décoste\, Trudeau Foundation Scholar and L.L.D . candidate (UQÀM)\n Me Marjolaine Olwell\, S.J.D. candidate (U Arizona) an d legal advisor to the Specific Claims Tribunal\n Yuri Alexander Romaña-Riv as\, D.C.L. candidate (McGill) and O’Brien Graduate Fellow\n Laura Baron-Me ndoza\, D.C.L. candidate (McGill) and O’Brien Graduate Fellow\nModerated b y Frédéric Mégret\n\nZoom. All are welcome\n\nAbout the talk\n\nIn recent decades\, claims for reparations of historic injustices have amplified\, w hether in the context of colonial wrongdoing against Indigenous Peoples\, reparation for enslavement or compensation for victims of discriminatory l aws targeting specific minority groups. Meanwhile\, the emergence of trans itional justice has sparked the normative development of the right to repa rations. Drawing from the cases of Canada and Colombia\, this panel will s eek to address some of the core legal questions related to the State’s obl igation to provide reparations for massive and/or State-sanctioned violati ons of human rights and breaches of International Humanitarian Law.\n\nAbo ut the panelists\n\nÉloïse Décoste is a Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation scholar and a LL.D. candidate at the Département des sciences juridiques o f the Université du Québec à Montréal. Her doctoral research investigates the State’s obligation to provide reparation for colonial genocide in the context of ongoing settler colonialism. Until recently\, she acted as Law and Policy Analyst for Quebec Native Women\, a grassroots indigenous women ’s organisation that she has represented both domestically and internation ally. Previously\, Éloïse was a legal advisor to the Canadian Specific Cla ims Tribunal. She also worked for the legal division of the International Committee of the Red Cross as well as for the office of the Special Rappor teur for Freedom of Expression at the Inter-American Commission on Human R ights. Éloïse holds an LL.M. suma cum laude from the Geneva Academy of Int ernational Humanitarian Law and Human Rights as well as a bijuridical law degree and a B.A. in Political Sciences and Environmental Studies from McG ill University. She will respond to some of the main theoretical and pract ical objections to Indigenous peoples’ claims from reparations in the cont ext of settler colonialism.\n\n \n\nMarjolaine Olwell currently acts as a legal advisor to the Canadian Specific Claims Tribunal. She is an S.J.D. c andidate at the James E. Rogers College of Law\, University of Arizona\, i n the Indigenous People’s Law and Policy Program\, where she was an Assist ant Professor of Practice. Previously\, she was the lawyer in charge of th e Rapporteurship on the rights of Indigenous peoples at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. Marjolaine also worked for a boutique firm sp ecialized in Aboriginal law\, where she notably represented survivors of t he residential school system. She holds an LL.M. from the University of Ar izona as well as a law degree and anundergraduate degree in International Relations and International Law from the Université du Québec à Montréal.  Marjolaine will discuss the reparation schemes implemented in Canada to ad dress the legacy of the Indian Residential School System.\n\n \n\nYuri Ale xander Romaña-Rivas is an Afro-Colombian lawyer specialized in Internation al Human Rights Law and Transitional Justice.He is currently a D.C.L. cand idate at McGill’s Faculty of Law and an O’Brien Fellow at the Centre for H uman Rights and Legal Pluralism. His research focuses on the need to stren gthen Colombia’s transitional justice reparation structures to effectively compensate and restore the rights of Afro-Colombian communities who are v ictims of the armed conflict. Prior to joining the McGill Law Faculty\, Yu ri worked for the Chamber of Amnesty and Pardon at the Special Jurisdictio n for Peace (JEP) in Colombia. He has also worked as a human rights specia list for the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. Yuri holds an LL.M . in International Law and Legal Studies from the American University\, a LL.B. from the Technological University of Chocó and a certificate on Afro -Latin American Studies from Harvard University. He will discuss how the t wo main structures that compose the reparation scheme developed in Colombi a following the 2016 Peace Agreement have approached reparations for Afro- Colombian and Indigenous communities. \n\n \n\nLaura Baron Mendoza is a Co lombian lawyer specialized in conflict resolution and currently works as a human rights advocacy officer for MADRE. She is also pursuing a D.C.L. at the McGill Faculty of Law\, where she is an O’Brien Fellow at the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism. Her research focuses on the socio-le gal challenges posed by the interactions between non-state armed actors an d state law. This subject derives from her individual work with former mem bers of non-state armed groups in the Urabá antioqueño Region (North-west of Colombia). In the past\, she acted as the legal team coordinator for Av ocats Sans Frontières Canada in Colombia.She has also worked for the High Commissioner for Peace in Colombia during the peace talks between the gove rnment and the FARC-EP. Laura holds an LL.M. from the Geneva Academy of In ternational Humanitarian Law and Human Rights and a law degree from the Po ntificia Universidad Javeriana. She will discuss the Colombian reparation scheme from the perspective of those who participated in the armed conflic t\, namely ex-combatants and former members of non-state armed groups.\n\n For more information\, please contact the //human.rights [at] mcgill.ca.'> CHRLP\n\nWe hope you can attend!\n DTSTART:20220204T193000Z DTEND:20220204T213000Z SUMMARY:Theory and Praxis of Reparations: Perspectives from Canada and Colo mbia URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/channels/fr/channels/event/theory-and-praxis-repa rations-perspectives-canada-and-colombia-337164 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR