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Fall 2018
The United Nations’ (UN) adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) in 2007 is broadly viewed as a critical occasion for Indigenous peoples, the UN system, and international law. The UNDRIP was a result of over 20 years of rigorous debate and...
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2020-01-09
SSHRC PEG awarded 2020:The project will address a series of related questions: how can we apply and promote equity and substantive equality considerations in a zoning bylaw? How can we identify the inequities created by land use regulations generally, and specifically in the case of Edmonton?...
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2010
In 2006, a new Human Rights Council came into existence, replacing the former Commission on Human Rights with a restructured intergovernmental body for the global promotion of human rights and fundamental freedoms. Heralded as a turning point for human rights within the UN system, it was hoped...
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Climate Justice: Protecting the Rights to Life and Health of Marginalized Rural Communities in Canada and Nigeria
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This study examines the negative impacts of climate change on the rights to life and health of marginalized communities by using as cases studies, rural Niger-Delta and Indigenous communities in oil producing areas of Nigeria and Canada. The case studies reveal that marginalization and inequality...
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Spring 2020
This thesis examined the extent to which Housing First (HF) programs in Alberta realize the right to adequate housing. HF provides chronically homeless people with access to permanent housing and separate support services. In Alberta, HF has been central to provincial and municipal responses to...
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2023-11-06
SSHRC PDG awarded 2024: Canada is facing a housing crisis. Housing prices are rising, as are mortgage and rental costs. Housing stock is being transformed by financial interests from places where people live, into investments from which shareholders expect to make returns. Law is implicated...
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International Non-Governmental Organizations and Human Rights-Based Approaches to Dam Development and Dispossession in Asia, Africa and the Americas: A Critical Case Study of International Rivers
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International Rivers (IR), an International Non-Governmental Organization (INGO) based in Berkeley, California with six regional offices in Asia, Africa and the Americas has been at the forefront of the fight for rivers and dams for the past three decades. Conservative estimates place the number...
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2016-02-01
SSHRC Awarded IDG 2016: Music's place in the Catholic Church’s movement from an agent of Portuguese colonization to a site of indigenous resistance in now-independent East Timor is the focus of this project. I will seek out traces of musical sound and embodied performance in archives and...