On March 6, the library hosted the John and Mary Yaremko Forum on Multiculturalism and Human Rights in the form of a showcase of student scholarship on women’s human rights. The papers presented are now available on the Women’s Human Rights Resources Programme Website and represent a wide range of issues and current thinking on domestic and international women’s human rights.
Participants
Workshops
Keri Bennett
Family Responsibilities Discrimination in the Americas: Transformative Potential of the Human Rights Claim.
Candice Telfer
Intersectionality as the Missing Link to Substantive Equality.
Milton Castelan
Women’s Rights, Reproductive Health Rights and Public Health Considerations in Decriminalizing Abortion in the Republic Suriname.
Paper Presentations
Cara Davies
Stereotyping and the New Women-protective Antiabortion Movement.
Erin Hallock
Gender Stereotypes and Canadian Immigration: An Analysis of Baker v. Canada in Light of Article 5(a) of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women.
Zannah Johnston
Decisions of the CEDAW Committee: Lack of Consistency in Admissibility Decisions.
Shayan Shaffie
Stereotyping as Institution: On Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins and the Socio-Structural Roots of Gender Discrimination.
Jennifer Simpson
Stereotyping Sex Workers: S.v Jordan and others.
Anaïs Tobalagba
Mississippi University for Women v. Hogan, 458 U.S. 718 (1982) per Justice O’Connor (United States, Supreme Court): a case revisited under CEDAW.
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