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No room for siloes in human rights work
By Catherine Dunne When I applied to McGill’s International Human Rights Internship Program, I was very interested in working for a Canadian organization....
August 30, 2022
Sovereignty and Justice
By Hannah Reardon Last week I had the immense privilege of attending the Cree Justice Department’s annual team gathering. For the first time...
August 29, 2022
Stage à la CDPDJ – De ces individus qui m’ont marquée
Par Yasmine Amar Comment synthétiser trois mois de travail ardu, de rencontres enrichissantes et d’apprentissage constant en quelques lignes seulement? Voici la question...
August 29, 2022
Waiting for Judgments from the ECOWAS Court
By Cassandra Betts It's a warm Wednesday morning in July, and six of us are gathered in the upstairs conference room, anxiously fiddling...
August 29, 2022
On Privacy(ies)
By Angela Yang When the Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health[1] decision officially came down, I was knee-deep in a project at the Citizen...
August 28, 2022
Walking With History
By Nicolas Kamran On my twenty-first birthday, I saw a man go to prison. I parsed through our client’s criminal record again as...
August 27, 2022
Reflecting on What I’ve Learned in Law School
by Mariana Furneri I’ve always heard that working in the legal field is very different from law school. I’ve been told that it...
August 26, 2022
A Whole New Perspective on Accessibility
By Laiba Asad At the beginning of the my internship with the Council of Canadians with Disabilities (CCD), when I learned that I...
August 25, 2022
A diversity of strategies for change
by Ella Johnson Interning at the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights has been one of the most incredible, rewarding experiences of my...
August 24, 2022
Lessons learned: interning in a civil society organization in Tunisia
by Weeam Ben Rejeb 1. Flexibility is key. One of the biggest takeaways from my internship in a civil society organization like Aswat Nissa is...
August 23, 2022
Knowledge is Power: How Access to Legal Information Can Protect Human Rights
By Noémie Richard I first started working as a volunteer for the Kenya-Canada Remote Legal Aid Project in the first week of my...
August 19, 2022
Overwhelmed by numbers
by Sophie Bisping Recently, a feeling of futility has started to creep in as I sit down at my desk. I can’t quite...
August 15, 2022