Bernard Duhaime is a professor of International Law at the Université du Québec à
Montréal (UQAM) and a specialist in the Inter-American System for the Protection of
Human Rights. He is also chairman of the Working Group on
Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, which reports to the United Nations Human
Rights Council. For over 20 years, Professor Duhaime has been contributing to the
promotion and defence of human rights, through his collaboration with national and
international human rights organizations. He has taken part in a range of observation
and training field missions and produced numerous institutional reports. Professor
Duhaime has also advised many human rights groups, Indigenous rights advocacy
groups, human rights lawyers and defenders, international organizations, and states.

A member of several research centres, Bernard Duhaime has authored some sixty
publications and delivered over 130 lectures around the globe. He founded and directed
UQAM’s International Human Rights Defence Clinic (CIDDHU), which is recognized
worldwide as a model university initiative. Recognized by his peers, Professor Duhaime
has been a visiting fellow at the University of Southern California (as Canada-US
Fulbright Visiting Chair in Public Diplomacy), at the Human Rights Program at Harvard
Law School (United States), at the European University Institute (Italy), and at the
Faculty of Law of the University of Palermo in Argentina. Professor Duhaime has served
as a lawyer with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of
American States. He was called to the Québec Bar in 1999.