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Ricardo Lamour – What Sits with Me: Reflections on Writing my First Gladue Report
By Ricardo Lamour For Sale. Baby Shoes. Never Worn. These were the words spoken three quarters into my first meeting with my supervisor at...
July 10, 2025
Patricia Betts – From the Office to the Trails
By Patricia Betts - Before I started this internship in May 2025, I had never been west of Strathroy, Ontario, a small town...
July 10, 2025
Ronan van Rooij – A love letter to Gambian cuisine
View from the beach in Brufut By Ronan van Rooij When one arrives in the Gambia one is met with profound hospitality and...
June 25, 2025
Ximena Ramírez Villanueva – Transitional Justice, Community Transformation, and Personal Reflections from Comuna 13
By Ximena Ramírez Villanueva Rediscovering Comuna 13 Through New Perspectives During the last two weeks of my internship with Avocats Sans Frontières, I...
September 4, 2024
Isabela Restrepo – What la Pura Vida Taught me about Law and Life
By Isabela Restrepo Warning: At the risk of sounding cliché, this is yet another story about growing up as a first-generation immigrant in...
September 3, 2024
Ximena Ramírez Villanueva – Building Bridges: Resilience and Reconciliation in Colombia’s Conflict Landscape
By Ximena Ramírez Villanueva I arrived in Bogotá for my internship with Avocats Sans Frontières filled with anticipation. I was especially eager to...
September 1, 2024
Lucia Quintero Lossada – The Importance of Knowing what You do not Know
Six weeks ago, I arrived in Lima, Peru, innocently thinking that my cultural heritage had prepared me for what was to come. This...
August 4, 2024
Loyalties Divided
By Tom Bissett In my previous post, I discussed some of the lessons I learned while working with clients. But human rights work...
October 18, 2023
The Courage and Selflessness of Human Rights Plaintiffs
During my internship with the Council of Canadians with Disabilities (CCD), one of my tasks was to draft one sentence summaries of cases...
October 18, 2023
Connecting the OSI’s work to our Everyday Lives
Included in the mandate of the Office of the Independent Special Interlocutor (OSI), where I interned this summer, is making recommendations for a...
October 13, 2023
Learning about Indigenous Data Sovereignty
This summer, I had the privilege of completing my human rights internship with the Office of the Independent Special Interlocutor for Missing Children...
October 13, 2023
Seth Gordon: Finding the ‘Lost’ City of Teyuna
In the first week of August, I made use of one of Colombia’s statutory holidays to plan a trip to the coast. I...
October 4, 2023
Ashli Au – Reflections on a Top-Down Approach to Human Rights
Coming into my internship in Vietnam, I was a strong proponent of an approach to human rights that was cognizant and responsive to...
September 18, 2023
Ramya Panchacharam – Pursuing Justice Through Alternative Lawyering
Seminar led by Atty. Marlon Manuel on Alternative Laywering during BOS This summer I had the opportunity to intern at the Ateneo Human...
September 14, 2023