Rights Review
Editor-in-ChiefSeptember 28, 2019
IHRP Alumnus Profile: An Interview with Vincent Wong
Reflections on his law school experiences and return to IHRP Vincent Wong is an adjunct professor and the William C. Graham Research Associate with the […]
Editor-in-ChiefSeptember 28, 2019
From UN Advocacy to Cocktail Parties
Advocating for the rights of persons with albinism When I accepted the International Human Rights Program (IHRP) Summer Fellowship, I envisioned myself holed up in […]
Amitpal SinghSeptember 28, 2019
A Timely Summit
Human Rights and Sovereignty in the Spotlight in Hong Kong The University of Toronto Faculty of Law’s Digital Verification Corps (DVC) working group arrived in […]
Web EditorMarch 27, 2019
The Homelessness Crisis as a Crisis in Access to Justice
The United Nations Human Rights Council hears how empowerment of the vulnerable can drive realisation of the right to housing for everyone The Canadian winter, […]
Web EditorMarch 27, 2019
Responding to the Audit Report: Taking Kafka out of Immigration Detention
Ricardo Scotland, a refugee claimant from Barbados, spent 18 months in maximum-security jail. He was serving an administrative detention, awaiting his refugee hearing. Through multiple […]
Web EditorMarch 27, 2019
A Conversation with Ikponwosa Ero, Independent Expert on the enjoyment of human rights by persons with albinism
Albinism is a relatively rare, non-contagious, genetically inherited condition which most commonly results in the lack of melanin pigment in the hair, skin and eyes. […]
Web EditorFebruary 27, 2019
Holding Canadian Mining Companies Accountable: IHRP intervenes in Nevsun Resources v Araya
Over the past semester, the International Human Rights Program (IHRP) prepared to intervene in the case Nevsun Resources Ltd. v Araya et al., which we […]
Web EditorFebruary 27, 2019
IHRP Alumni Spotlight: Lane Krainyk
Lane graduated from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law in 2013 as the valedictorian of his graduating class. Lane articled at Fasken Martineau DuMoulin […]
Web EditorFebruary 27, 2019
Reflections on Rwanda
India, an International Human Rights Program (IHRP) clinic student, travelled to Rwanda this past November to interview the survivors featured in The Men Who Killed […]
Web EditorFebruary 27, 2019
They Live On: Survivor’s Narratives of Empowerment 25 Years after the Rwandan Genocide
“Cheaper than AK-47s or grenades or scud missiles, rape is biological warfare. It not only wounds women in the moment it occurs, but it lodges […]
Web EditorJanuary 31, 2019
Human Rights Panel: Technological Experiments in the Digital Age
On January 14, an all-female panel of experts convened at the Faculty of Law to discuss the human rights implications of new technologies and their […]
Web EditorJanuary 31, 2019
Freedom of the Press in Canada: An Interview with Intervenors in R v Vice Media
Background R v Vice Media centers on the issue of freedom of the press and the judicial balancing necessary when freedom of the press conflicts […]
Web EditorJanuary 31, 2019
Justice, Reconciliation, and Everything in Between: The Issue of Japanese Military Sexual Slavery
Last June, I witnessed people young and old gather every Wednesday in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, to demand a formal apology and […]
Editor-in-ChiefDecember 3, 2018
Excerpts from “Bots at the Gate: A Human Rights Analysis of Automated Decision Making in Canada’s Immigration and Refugee System”
Page 62: Technology travels. Whether in the private or public sector, a country’s decision to implement particular technologies can set an example for other countries […]
Editor-in-ChiefDecember 1, 2018
An Interview with Petra Molnar
Twists, Turns and Advice on a Career in International Human Rights Law Petra Molnar is a lawyer and researcher with the International Human Rights Project, […]
Editor-in-ChiefNovember 30, 2018
The A-Team Takes O-Town
IHRP and Citizen Lab consult the federal government on “Bots at the Gate” This past September, we had the privilege of joining the International Human […]
Editor-in-ChiefNovember 8, 2018
International Justice Never Rests
Our summer in The Hague For three months this summer, we interned at the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT) in the Office of […]
Editor-in-ChiefNovember 8, 2018
A Summer of Migration
Living, Learning and Teaching On an early Monday afternoon last April, my flight descended over Lac Léman, surrounded by the majestic Swiss Alps. I arrived […]
Editor-in-ChiefNovember 8, 2018
Equality Effect
Women’s Rights in Meru, Kenya This summer, I spent each work day reading the case files of young girls who had experienced sexual abuse, and […]
Editor-in-ChiefNovember 8, 2018
The Hague to Beirut
What it’s like to work for the Special Tribunal for Lebanon Many have heard of the International Criminal Court, the International Court of Justice, or […]
Editor-in-ChiefNovember 8, 2018
In the City that Never Sleeps, Human Rights Activists Never Rest
My summer with Human Rights Watch If someone had tried to tell me seven years ago that I would spend the summer of 2018 working […]
Editor-in-ChiefNovember 8, 2018
Found in Translation
A summer at UNHCR Bangkok I did my IHRP fellowship at the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) in Bangkok, Thailand. I came into law school […]
Editor-in-ChiefOctober 11, 2018
Protecting Individual Liberty: Gaps in Procedural Fairness at the Immigration Division
Criminal proceedings and immigration detention reviews both implicate an individual’s right to liberty. In both, standards of procedural fairness are meant to protect that […]
Editor-in-ChiefOctober 11, 2018
Challenging Barbados’ Discriminatory Sexual Offences Act
In a historic decision released on September 6, 2018, India’s Supreme Court unanimously overturned their colonial-era prohibition on consensual gay sex. This is a […]
Editor-in-ChiefOctober 11, 2018
University of Toronto Digital Verification Corps Second Annual Amnesty International DVC Summit
The University of Toronto’s Digital Verification Team, now in its third year and housed in the International Human Rights Program, is part of Amnesty […]
Web EditorMarch 29, 2018
Exploitation or Economics? Our Year Learning About Migrant Worker Rights and Recruitment Fees
Each year tens of thousands of temporary foreign workers enter Canada to perform jobs that the sponsoring employer has demonstrated no Canadian is willing to […]
Jeremy GreenbergMarch 29, 2018
The Right To Housing
It’s appropriate that on my recent trip to Geneva I stayed in a youth hostel. Hostels are not the most pleasant environment. Not horrible, mind, […]
Web EditorMarch 29, 2018
“2030 is our last chance”: The right to housing to ensure no one is left behind
Dumbstruck with excitement, and a bit jet lagged. That’s how I would describe the feeling I had as I hustled into a side meeting at […]
Bethanie PascuttoMarch 7, 2018
Q&A: Eliot Higgins
Eliot Higgins is an award winning investigative journalist, and Founder of the Brown Moses Blog and Bellingcat. He publishes the work of an international alliance […]
Web EditorMarch 7, 2018
IHRP Alumni Spotlight: Diane Goodman
What were your initial steps following graduation from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law and what drove you to work as an advocate for […]
Web EditorMarch 7, 2018
Living in Limbo: Non-Citizen Children in State Care
In 2000, a six-year-old boy named Abdoul Abdi arrived in Nova Scotia. He arrived with his sister and two aunts, as refugees, fleeing the war […]
Bethanie PascuttoMarch 7, 2018
Ethnic Cleansing in Rakhine State: Law Students Assist Amnesty International with Digital Verification in Myanmar
Over the past two years, more than 900,000 Rohingya have fled Myanmar’s Rakhine State across the Naf River into southwestern Bangladesh. In response to a […]
Web EditorMarch 7, 2018
IHRP Alumni Spotlight: Andrew Brouwer
Andrew Brouwer is Legal Aid Ontario’s Senior Counsel in Refugee Law. He leads the organization’s refugee law test case program which is geared to improving […]
Web EditorMarch 7, 2018
Technology-facilitated violence, abuse, and harassment against women and girls: A 21st Century Challenge
In October 2012, 15-year-old Amanda Todd from Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, committed suicide after being manipulated into exposing her breasts via webcam by an online […]
Karlson LeungMarch 7, 2018
IHRP Alumni Spotlight: Leilani Farha
Leilani Farha, Executive Director, Canada Without Poverty, is a leading expert and advocate on economic and social human rights, especially for women. She has a […]
Web EditorMarch 7, 2018
IHRP Summer Fellows Showcase 2017
Name: Sam Levy Year: 4L Which organization did you work for, and in which city and country? PEN International, London, UK What were the highlights of […]
Web EditorMarch 7, 2018
More Than Four Walls and a Roof: A Summer with the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Housing
“Despite the fact that there are homeless people on the streets throughout the world, despite the fact that homelessness occurs in all economies: developed, emerging […]
Bethanie PascuttoMarch 7, 2018
The Next Generation of Human Rights Researchers: U of T Students Hone their Digital Verification Skills
An image captured on a smartphone in the aftermath of an attack on civilians sheltered within a warzone or a video posted on YouTube of […]
Bethanie PascuttoMarch 6, 2018
IHRP Alumni Profile: Arif Virani
IHRP alumni Arif Virani came to Canada as a Ugandan-Asian refugee in 1972 when his family was forced to flee Idi Amin’s brutal dictatorship. After spending […]
Web EditorMarch 6, 2018
30 Years of Human Rights Impact at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Law
More than 100 distinguished alumni, faculty, students, and sponsors gathered on September 14th at the Faculty of Law to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the […]
Web EditorFebruary 28, 2017
Immigration Detention Harms Canadian Families
Yolanda Song (3L) When 8-year-old Alicia visits her mother Selena at the immigration detention facility in Toronto, they speak through phones on either side of […]
Web EditorFebruary 28, 2017
Speaking with Chief Commissioner of the Ontario Human Rights Commission: Renu Mandhane
Rona Ghanbari (3L) and Hanna Gros, U of T alumni and IHRP Senior Fellow In October 2015 one of the University of Toronto’s very own was nominated […]
Web EditorJanuary 29, 2017
Sandra Morán: A Lifelong Revolutionary
Abisola Omotayo (LLM) & Ashley Peoples (2L), with the support of PEN Canada Programs Coordinator, Brendan de Caires, and human rights defender, Rob Mercatante. […]
Web EditorJanuary 29, 2017
Canada’s gaps in implementing women’s rights: The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women’s 2016 review of Canada
Lara Koerner Yeo (3L) We do not live in a Canadian society where women, men, and those who otherwise self-identify, are equal. In November 2016, […]
Web EditorJanuary 20, 2017
Summer Experiences: The Hague Academy of International Law
Sarah Firestone (1L) On my first day in The Hague, I walked through the indescribably grand gates of the Neo-Renaissance Carnegie Peace Palace and into […]
Karlson LeungNovember 30, 2016
The Umbrella Movement: A popular uprising predicated on the ‘naive’ belief that anything is possible
Professor Jason Y. Ng (JD/MBA ’01) and Karlson Leung (JD ’18) share their views and personal experiences on the ground two years after the 2014 […]
Kerry SunOctober 27, 2016
Bystanders to Evil: Toward a Principled Approach to Omission Liability Under the Doctrine of Joint Criminal Enterprise
Kerry Sun (2L) and Karlson Leung (2L) The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was established by the UN Security Council following the […]
Web EditorOctober 27, 2016
U of T Law Meets World: Reflections on IHRP-Facilitated Fellowships
U of T Law Meets World: Reflections on IHRP-Facilitated Fellowships Every year, the International Human Rights Program supports 15 to 20 students to pursue summer […]
Web EditorOctober 27, 2016
Canada Must Live Up to Its International Obligations and Reputation
The Ultra Vires Editorial Board in concert with the IHRP Ultra Vires strongly endorses No Life for a Child: A Roadmap to End Immigration Detention […]
Web EditorSeptember 28, 2016
No Life for a Child: A Roadmap to End Immigration Detention of Children and Family Separation
Rona Ghanbari (3L) “If we fail in our duty of care to the smallest and most vulnerable among us, then we fail the most basic […]
Web EditorSeptember 28, 2016
Spotlight: Hanna Gros, Co-author of No Life for a Child, IHRP Senior Fellow, and Graduate of U of T Law
Rona Ghanbari (3L) Profile Full name: Hanna Gros Age: 27 Undergraduate degree: Psychology BA, McGill University Year of Graduation from U of T Law: 2016 […]
Web EditorApril 9, 2016
Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind: The Invisibility Of Homeless People And Their Rights
Rona Ghanbari (2L) When you make your daily commute to the law school, how many times have you seen someone sitting or sleeping on the […]
Web EditorApril 3, 2016
Quest For Accountability And Justice In Sri Lanka: Keeping The Focus On Victims
Dharsha Jegatheeswaran (IHRP Alumnus) Seven years after the end of a 30-year civil war that saw horrific mass atrocities, Sri Lanka currently stands at a […]
Web EditorApril 2, 2016
Incarcerated and Discriminated: Transgender Youth and Migrants in United States Prisons
Elliot Fonarev (3L) It doesn’t matter what you did or didn’t do, prison is bad for everyone. It looks even worse for people of color, […]
Web EditorMarch 1, 2016
Three Issues a National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Must Address
Lara Koerner Yeo (2L) Ottawa’s decision to launch an inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls is a crucial step in addressing the […]
Web EditorFebruary 28, 2016
Breaking Legal Boundaries: Transnational Torts and Human Rights
Emma Julian (3L) On 19 January, 2016, at an event organized by the International Human Rights Program, the Honourable Ian Binnie, former Justice of the […]
Web EditorFebruary 28, 2016
Yaiguaje v Chevron Corp Is Back In The Canadian Courts
Graham Henry (2L) In the wake of the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) decision granting jurisdiction last September, the case Yaiguaje v Chevron Corp. will […]
Web EditorFebruary 28, 2016
The Yezidi Genocide: In Search of a Sense of Direction
Hanna Gros (3L) “I looked up at the sky, and I said, ‘Mom! They have stars here, too!’” Dalal’s eyes were shining as she recounted […]
Web EditorJanuary 28, 2016
Victim Participation at the International Criminal Court
Misha Boutilier (1L) “I feel that my voice should be heard throughout the world because it is not going to help only me, but the […]
Web EditorJanuary 28, 2016
Terrorism, Free Expression, and Social Activism: An Interview with Mohamed Fahmy
Aidan Campbell (1L) Award-winning Egyptian-Canadian journalist Mohamed Fahmy was arrested in Egypt and imprisoned for over a year on charges of reporting false news and […]
Web EditorJanuary 28, 2016
Note from the editors of Rights Review
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