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