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DESCRIPTION:The Centre for Human Rights & Legal Pluralism presents\n\n\n	Me 
 Éloïse Décoste\, Trudeau Foundation Scholar and L.L.D. candidate (UQÀM)\n	M
 e Marjolaine Olwell\, S.J.D. candidate (U Arizona) and legal advisor to th
 e Specific Claims Tribunal\n	Yuri Alexander Romaña-Rivas\, D.C.L. candidate
  (9IÖÆ×÷³§Ãâ·Ñ) and O’Brien Graduate Fellow\n	Laura Baron-Mendoza\, D.C.L. candid
 ate (9IÖÆ×÷³§Ãâ·Ñ) and O’Brien Graduate Fellow\n\n\nModerated by Frédéric Mégret
 \n\nZoom. All are welcome\n\nAbout the talk\n\nIn recent decades\, claims 
 for reparations of historic injustices have amplified\, whether in the con
 text of colonial wrongdoing against Indigenous Peoples\, reparation for en
 slavement or compensation for victims of discriminatory laws targeting spe
 cific minority groups. Meanwhile\, the emergence of transitional justice h
 as sparked the normative development of the right to reparations. Drawing 
 from the cases of Canada and Colombia\, this panel will seek to address so
 me of the core legal questions related to the State’s obligation to provid
 e reparations for massive and/or State-sanctioned violations of human righ
 ts and breaches of International Humanitarian Law.\n\nAbout the panelists
 \n\nÉloïse Décoste is a Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation scholar and a LL
 .D. candidate at the Département des sciences juridiques of the Université
  du Québec à Montréal. Her doctoral research investigates the State’s obli
 gation to provide reparation for colonial genocide in the context of ongoi
 ng settler colonialism. Until recently\, she acted as Law and Policy Analy
 st for Quebec Native Women\, a grassroots indigenous women’s organisation 
 that she has represented both domestically and internationally. Previously
 \, Éloïse was a legal advisor to the Canadian Specific Claims Tribunal. Sh
 e also worked for the legal division of the International Committee of the
  Red Cross as well as for the office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom
  of Expression at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. Éloïse ho
 lds an LL.M. suma cum laude from the Geneva Academy of International Human
 itarian Law and Human Rights as well as a bijuridical law degree and a B.A
 . in Political Sciences and Environmental Studies from 9IÖÆ×÷³§Ãâ·Ñ. 
 She will respond to some of the main theoretical and practical objections 
 to Indigenous peoples’ claims from reparations in the context of settler c
 olonialism.\n\n \n\nMarjolaine Olwell currently acts as a legal advisor to
  the Canadian Specific Claims Tribunal. She is an S.J.D. candidate at the 
 James E. Rogers College of Law\, University of Arizona\, in the Indigenous
  People’s Law and Policy Program\, where she was an Assistant Professor of
  Practice. Previously\, she was the lawyer in charge of the Rapporteurship
  on the rights of Indigenous peoples at the Inter-American Commission on H
 uman Rights. Marjolaine also worked for a boutique firm specialized in Abo
 riginal law\, where she notably represented survivors of the residential s
 chool system. She holds an LL.M. from the University of Arizona as well as
  a law degree and anundergraduate degree in International Relations and In
 ternational Law from the Université du Québec à Montréal. Marjolaine will 
 discuss the reparation schemes implemented in Canada to address the legacy
  of the Indian Residential School System.\n\n \n\nYuri Alexander Romaña-Ri
 vas is an Afro-Colombian lawyer specialized in International Human Rights 
 Law and Transitional Justice.He is currently a D.C.L. candidate at 9IÖÆ×÷³§Ãâ·Ñ’
 s Faculty of Law and an O’Brien Fellow at the Centre for Human Rights and 
 Legal Pluralism. His research focuses on the need to strengthen Colombia’s
  transitional justice reparation structures to effectively compensate and 
 restore the rights of Afro-Colombian communities who are victims of the ar
 med conflict. Prior to joining the 9IÖÆ×÷³§Ãâ·Ñ Law Faculty\, Yuri worked for th
 e Chamber of Amnesty and Pardon at the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP
 ) in Colombia. He has also worked as a human rights specialist for the Int
 er-American Commission on Human Rights. Yuri holds an LL.M. in Internation
 al Law and Legal Studies from the American University\, a LL.B. from the T
 echnological University of Chocó and a certificate on Afro-Latin American 
 Studies from Harvard University. He will discuss how the two main structur
 es that compose the reparation scheme developed in Colombia following the 
 2016 Peace Agreement have approached reparations for Afro-Colombian and In
 digenous communities. \n\n \n\nLaura Baron Mendoza is a Colombian lawyer s
 pecialized in conflict resolution and currently works as a human rights ad
 vocacy officer for MADRE. She is also pursuing a D.C.L. at the 9IÖÆ×÷³§Ãâ·Ñ Facu
 lty of Law\, where she is an O’Brien Fellow at the Centre for Human Rights
  and Legal Pluralism. Her research focuses on the socio-legal challenges p
 osed by the interactions between non-state armed actors and state law. Thi
 s subject derives from her individual work with former members of non-stat
 e armed groups in the Urabá antioqueño Region (North-west of Colombia). In
  the past\, she acted as the legal team coordinator for Avocats Sans Front
 ières Canada in Colombia.She has also worked for the High Commissioner for
  Peace in Colombia during the peace talks between the government and the F
 ARC-EP. Laura holds an LL.M. from the Geneva Academy of International Huma
 nitarian Law and Human Rights and a law degree from the Pontificia Univers
 idad Javeriana. She will discuss the Colombian reparation scheme from the 
 perspective of those who participated in the armed conflict\, namely ex-co
 mbatants and former members of non-state armed groups.\n\nFor more informa
 tion\, please contact the CHRLP\n\nWe hope you can attend!\n
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SUMMARY:Theory and Praxis of Reparations: Perspectives from Canada and Colo
 mbia
URL:/law/channels/event/theory-and-praxis-reparations-
 perspectives-canada-and-colombia-337164
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