BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260611T153933EDT-9277zjodv4@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20260611T193933Z DESCRIPTION:The Centre for Human Rights & Legal Pluralism presents\n\n\n Me Éloïse Décoste\, Trudeau Foundation Scholar and L.L.D. candidate (UQÀM)\n M e Marjolaine Olwell\, S.J.D. candidate (U Arizona) and legal advisor to th e Specific Claims Tribunal\n Yuri Alexander Romaña-Rivas\, D.C.L. candidate (McGill) and O’Brien Graduate Fellow\n Laura Baron-Mendoza\, D.C.L. candid ate (McGill) and O’Brien Graduate Fellow\n\n\nModerated by Frédéric Mégret \n\nZoom. All are welcome\n\nAbout the talk\n\nIn recent decades\, claims for reparations of historic injustices have amplified\, whether in the con text of colonial wrongdoing against Indigenous Peoples\, reparation for en slavement or compensation for victims of discriminatory laws targeting spe cific minority groups. Meanwhile\, the emergence of transitional justice h as sparked the normative development of the right to reparations. Drawing from the cases of Canada and Colombia\, this panel will seek to address so me of the core legal questions related to the State’s obligation to provid e reparations for massive and/or State-sanctioned violations of human righ ts and breaches of International Humanitarian Law.\n\nAbout the panelists \n\nÉloïse Décoste is a Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation scholar and a LL .D. candidate at the Département des sciences juridiques of the Université du Québec à Montréal. Her doctoral research investigates the State’s obli gation to provide reparation for colonial genocide in the context of ongoi ng settler colonialism. Until recently\, she acted as Law and Policy Analy st for Quebec Native Women\, a grassroots indigenous women’s organisation that she has represented both domestically and internationally. Previously \, Éloïse was a legal advisor to the Canadian Specific Claims Tribunal. Sh e also worked for the legal division of the International Committee of the Red Cross as well as for the office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. Éloïse ho lds an LL.M. suma cum laude from the Geneva Academy of International Human itarian Law and Human Rights as well as a bijuridical law degree and a B.A . in Political Sciences and Environmental Studies from McGill University. She will respond to some of the main theoretical and practical objections to Indigenous peoples’ claims from reparations in the context of settler c olonialism.\n\n \n\nMarjolaine Olwell currently acts as a legal advisor to the Canadian Specific Claims Tribunal. She is an S.J.D. candidate at the James E. Rogers College of Law\, University of Arizona\, in the Indigenous People’s Law and Policy Program\, where she was an Assistant Professor of Practice. Previously\, she was the lawyer in charge of the Rapporteurship on the rights of Indigenous peoples at the Inter-American Commission on H uman Rights. Marjolaine also worked for a boutique firm specialized in Abo riginal law\, where she notably represented survivors of the residential s chool system. She holds an LL.M. from the University of Arizona as well as a law degree and anundergraduate degree in International Relations and In ternational Law from the Université du Québec à Montréal. Marjolaine will discuss the reparation schemes implemented in Canada to address the legacy of the Indian Residential School System.\n\n \n\nYuri Alexander Romaña-Ri vas is an Afro-Colombian lawyer specialized in International Human Rights  Law and Transitional Justice.He is currently a D.C.L. candidate at McGill’ s Faculty of Law and an O’Brien Fellow at the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism. His research focuses on the need to strengthen Colombia’s transitional justice reparation structures to effectively compensate and restore the rights of Afro-Colombian communities who are victims of the ar med conflict. Prior to joining the McGill Law Faculty\, Yuri worked for th e Chamber of Amnesty and Pardon at the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP ) in Colombia. He has also worked as a human rights specialist for the Int er-American Commission on Human Rights. Yuri holds an LL.M. in Internation al Law and Legal Studies from the American University\, a LL.B. from the T echnological University of Chocó and a certificate on Afro-Latin American Studies from Harvard University. He will discuss how the two main structur es that compose the reparation scheme developed in Colombia following the 2016 Peace Agreement have approached reparations for Afro-Colombian and In digenous communities. \n\n \n\nLaura Baron Mendoza is a Colombian lawyer s pecialized in conflict resolution and currently works as a human rights ad vocacy officer for MADRE. She is also pursuing a D.C.L. at the McGill Facu lty of Law\, where she is an O’Brien Fellow at the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism. Her research focuses on the socio-legal challenges p osed by the interactions between non-state armed actors and state law. Thi s subject derives from her individual work with former members of non-stat e armed groups in the Urabá antioqueño Region (North-west of Colombia). In the past\, she acted as the legal team coordinator for Avocats Sans Front ières Canada in Colombia.She has also worked for the High Commissioner for Peace in Colombia during the peace talks between the government and the F ARC-EP. Laura holds an LL.M. from the Geneva Academy of International Huma nitarian Law and Human Rights and a law degree from the Pontificia Univers idad Javeriana. She will discuss the Colombian reparation scheme from the perspective of those who participated in the armed conflict\, namely ex-co mbatants and former members of non-state armed groups.\n\nFor more informa tion\, please contact the CHRLP\n\nWe hope you can attend!\n DTSTART:20220204T193000Z DTEND:20220204T210000Z SUMMARY:Theory and Praxis of Reparations: Perspectives from Canada and Colo mbia URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/law/channels/event/theory-and-praxis-reparations- perspectives-canada-and-colombia-337164 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR