Rachel Hatcher, Ph.D., research assistant for the SOAA project, publishes “The Victims and Violence of Civil War: Presences and Absences in El Salvador’s Monumental Narratives of Reconciliation” This article examines two memorial projects in El Salvador, the Monument to Memory and Truth, unveiled in 2003, and the Reconciliation Sculpture Park,...
Many many many thanks to all our guest speakers, our collaborators and partners in the organization of these great events, as well as all the people who attended.
Discover the final program of the international conference “Opening to the Americas to better protect human rights and committing to reconciliation”. Also available in pdf format: Final Program Oct. 3-4 EN See you on Thursday 3rd October at 16h!
Discover the preliminary program of the international conference. Also available in pdf format : Agenda Oct. 3-4 EN
Professor Bernard Duhaime and Opening up to the Americas to better protect human rights and committing to reconciliation are proud to organize, in partnership with the Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation and the IEIM, their first international conference to be held at UQAM on October 3rd and 4th, 2019. We will...
On June 17th, 2019, Bernard Duhaime, was invited by the University of Washington School of Law to talk about the his work as Chair-Rapporteur of the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances. The podcast is available at https://www.law.uw.edu/news-events/discovery/season-1/a-wheel-that-continues-to-roll
Human Rights in Latin America: The Work of the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances and Pr. Bernard Duhaime in the media : Preocupa a 6 instancias de la ONU “esquema de seguridad pública militarizado” en minuta sobre Guardia Nacional El debate sobre la Guardia Nacional, a parlamento abierto...
Femmes autochtones du Québec, in collaboration with the SOAA project, has prepared a submission for the report on the reconciliation, recognition and reparation of the United Nations Experts Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The report is available in english here. This submission was sent in late February. The...
The Vancouver Roundtable was held at Simon Fraser University’s Harbor Center on Wednesday, on March 6, 2019. Participants came from Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada and CoDevelopment Canada, as well as an Aboriginal rights lawyer and a student**. The conversations were dynamic and covered, over 3 hours, the three main aspects...
Published in a special issue of the Revue générale de droit, this contribution by the Pr. Bernard Duhaime seeks to present comprehensively ten reasons why Canada should join the American Convention on Human Rights and recognize the compulsory jurisdiction of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. Link to the article : Duhaime,...