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Seodaemun Prison. Christian Senger, Flickr

Faculty of Law

Analysis: Solitary confinement in Canada is a human-rights crisis

December 10, 2014 — 
Perhaps more importantly, what can be done to reverse this trend? An important first step would be for Canada to ratify a United Nations convention against torture.

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Faculty of Arts

Rhodes Scholar driven to human rights advocacy

December 1, 2014 — 
U of M leads Western Canada in number of Rhodes Scholars

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Faculty of Law

Wpg Free Press: The high cost of jailing the innocent

October 30, 2014 — 
'Every single correctional centre is operating over capacity'

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UN Judge and Faculty of Law alumna Kimberly Prost. // Photo: Thomas Fricke

Faculty of Law

Judge Kimberly Prost: From U of M to the Hague to New York

September 29, 2014 — 
For this alumna, from here, you really can go anywhere

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Kimberly Prost speaking at the U of M / Photo: Mike Latschislaw

Faculty of Law

Alumna protects the rights of terror suspects

September 24, 2014 — 
These are difficult times for international criminal justice

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Peace and conflict studies students, l to r: Peter Karari, Paul Cormier, Jodi Read, Robin Neustaeter, Sandra Krahn, Alka Kumar, Cathy Rocke, Grace Kyoon-Achan.

Alumni

Peacebuilding with a global reach

September 23, 2014 — 
Human rights begin at home

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Free expression - who pays the price? Wednesday, September 17

Faculty of Law

Free expression, from whistleblowing to academic freedom

September 19, 2014 — 
Wednesday's Visionary Conversations featured President Barnard, CBC's Cecil Rosner and Faculty of Law's Sarah Lugtig

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Anitra Squires and Jackie Gruber of the office of human rights and conflict management.

Human rights and conflict management in the workplace

September 19, 2014 — 
Human rights and advisory services updates name to the office of human rights and conflict management

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Alumni

U of M connections: Canadian Museum for Human Rights

September 19, 2014 — 
With the long-anticipated opening of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, U of M has something to celebrate

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Canadian Museum for Human Rights

On the opening of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights

September 19, 2014 — 
A message from Dr. David Barnard, president of the University of Manitoba

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