Laurence LeBlanc – What can we learn from protesting refugees? : A UNHCR Tunisia example

by Laurence LeBlanc NOTE: The views in this article are my own and by no way representative of the positions held by UNHCR...
September 9, 2022

Genny Plumptre – North Africa’s colonial borders

by Genny Plumptre Nearly three months into my internship at the Conseil national des droits de l’Homme (CNDH), I went on a brief...
September 9, 2022

Eric Epp – Good Gosh It’s Better Than Frosh: It’s Back to Batoche!

by Eric Epp Visting Batoche in June was a solitary, reflective experience—no other cars in the parking lot and nobody closer than whoever...
September 8, 2022

Catherine Ndiaye – Final Thoughts

by Catherine Ndiaye When I first applied to the International Human Rights Internship Program, I was set on working at an NGO abroad....
September 7, 2022

Genny Plumptre – Putting universal human rights standards into practice

by Genny Plumptre This summer, I worked as a legal intern at the National Human Rights Council of the Kingdom of Morocco (CNDH),...
September 7, 2022

Charlotte Ridsdale – An End-of-Summer Reflection

By Charlotte Ridsdale: Blog Post #2 As the summer comes to a close, I would like to reflect on my time as an...
September 2, 2022

Vidish Parikh – Reflections at the end of my internship

by Vidish Parikh – BLOG 2 – 2022/08/29 The end of my internship this August brings about mixed feelings. I noted a couple...
August 31, 2022

Vidish Parikh – Reflections halfway through my internship — law and policy

by Vidish Parikh – BLOG 1 – 2022/07/20 As I reflect now, halfway through my internship I realize more than ever that policy...
August 31, 2022

Bella Harvey – Reflecting on Human Rights Work

by Bella Harvey Reflecting on my experience this summer, I think that human rights work can take many forms, from raising awareness to...
August 30, 2022

Bella Harvey – A Forum for Human Rights

by Bella Harvey This summer, I am grateful to have had the opportunity to work with the Forum for Human Rights (“Forum”), which...
August 30, 2022

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