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DESCRIPTION:(Please note that the room has been changed)\n\nThe Centre for 
 Human Rights and Legal Pluralism\, in collaboration with the Voices-Voix c
 oalition for civil society\, invites you to a conference on the risks curr
 ently faced by civil society.\n\nFreedoms of expression\, association and 
 peaceful assembly are fundamental to the work of civil society organizatio
 ns. They amplify the voices of civil society groups\, many of which work w
 ith those who are marginalized and vulnerable. But their role and their ad
 vocacy make them targets for political attack. Global advocacy for the rig
 hts of migrants and minorities\, and those opposing them\, have made headl
 ines in Canada and the United States in recent months. How do we craft a p
 rincipled response that respects civil society while supporting a progress
 ive approach to human rights?\n\nThe speakers\n\nFrançoise Girard\n\nFranç
 oise Girard is the President of the International Women’s Health Coalition
 . A lawyer by training\, she is a longtime advocate and expert on women’s 
 health\, human rights\, sexuality\, and HIV and AIDS. She has played a key
  role in advocacy on sexual and reproductive health and women’s rights wit
 h UN agencies and at UN Conferences. Françoise was previously Director of 
 the Public Health Program at Open Society Foundations\, where she was also
  Regional Director for Central and Eastern Europe and Haiti in the 1990s. 
 From 1999 to 2003\, she was Senior Program Officer for International Polic
 y at IWHC\, and thereafter a consultant for IWHC\, the International Plann
 ed Parenthood Federation\, and DAWN\, a network of women’s rights activist
 s from the global South.\n\nFrancois Crépeau\n\nProfessor François Crépeau
 \, who holds the Oppenheimer Chair in Public International Law\, was the U
 nited Nations Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants from 2011
  to 2017. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. In August 2015\, 
 he became Director of 9IÖÆ×÷³§Ãâ·Ñ's Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism
  for a three-year mandate. He was  appointed to Belgium's International Fr
 ancqui Professor Chair in Social Sciences for 2017-2018. The focus of his 
 current research includes migration control mechanisms\, the rights of for
 eigners\, the interface between security and migration\, and the interface
  between the Rule of Law and globalization.\n\nAlex Neve\n\nAlex Neve has 
 been Secretary General of Amnesty International Canada since January 2000.
  He has been a member of Amnesty for twenty years\, having joined when he 
 was a student at Dalhousie University. He has worked for the organization 
 nationally and internationally in a number of different roles\, including 
 research missions to Chad\, Tanzania\, Guinea\, Mexico\, Burundi\, Colombi
 a\, Honduras\, Zimbabwe\, South Africa\, Cote d’Ivoire and Ghana. He has a
 ppeared before various UN human rights bodies\, Canadian parliamentary com
 mittees and has represented Amnesty International at numerous internationa
 l meetings. He speaks and writes regularly in the national media on a rang
 e of human rights topics. He has taught international human rights and ref
 ugee law at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto and has been affiliated wit
 h the Centre for Refugee Studies at York University. Prior to taking up hi
 s current position he served as a Member of Canada’s Immigration and Refug
 ee Board. He is an Officer of the Order of Canada.\n\nA request has been m
 ade for 1.5 hours of continuing legal education for jurists.\n
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LOCATION:Maxwell Cohen Moot Court (NCDH 100)\, Chancellor Day Hall\, CA\, Q
 C\, Montreal\, H3A 1W9\, 3644 rue Peel
SUMMARY:Civil Society at Risk? Three International Perspectives
URL:/law/channels/event/civil-society-risk-three-inter
 national-perspectives-270063
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