René Cassin Lecture - Martha Minow

Wednesday, October 29, 2025 01:00to02:00

Democratic norms are decaying as strongman leaders disable checks on their power; artificial intelligence permeates every sector of societies.3644 rue Peel, Montreal, QC, H3A 1W9, CA...

Pearl Eliadis on Taking Bill 96 and Bill 21 to the United Nations Human Rights Committee | Montreal Gazette

Published: 12 June 2025

June 12, 2025 | Reporting on a public forum organized by the Task Force on Linguistic Policy, the Montreal Gazette highlights Pearl Eliadis’s warning that if the Supreme Court of Canada does not...

Pearl Eliadis on the Role of Human Rights Commissions in Post-Genocide Rwanda | Global Justice Journal

Published: 12 June 2025

June 2025 | Pearl Eliadis recently authored a journal article published in the Global Justice Journal by Queen’s University Faculty of Law comparing the post-genocide roles of Rwanda’s National...

Pearl Eliadis on Taming of the National Human Rights Commission and the National Unity and Reconciliation Commission (1999–2003)

Published: 20 February 2025

February 20, 2025 | Kirsten Van Houten and Alex Neve (eds) examine Canada's changing and uneven role in foreign policy in their new book Hand in Hand: Canada at the Human Rights and Peacebuilding...

Reforming the United Nations: How Canada Can Lead on Human Rights | Policy Magazine

Published: 14 February 2023

February 9, 2023 | Following Kevin Page's complexity seminar, Elisa Alloul wrote about how the lack of accountability on how gross human rights abusers have joined UN bodies is hurting the UN's...

The UN’s New Agenda for Protection | International Peace Institute

Published: 14 May 2024

May 13, 2024 | The United Nations (UN) recently released its Agenda for Protection, a comprehensive document aiming to enhance protection as a collective responsibility across various UN components...

Quebec's Court of Appeal upholds Bill 21, with a few exceptions | CBC

Published: 18 March 2024

February 29, 2024 | Pearl Eliadis speaks on "Breakaway with Alison Brunette" and "Let's Go with Sabrina Marandola" on the upholding of Bill 21 and what the ruling means. The law bans certain...

Hate and Harm: Rethinking Dignity, Dissent & Equality in Canadian Law

Published: 12 March 2024

February 27, 2024 | The Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School hosted a seminar with a focus on the evolution of hate and discriminatory speech. This seminar built upon the foundation laid by...

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