Law Students for Human Rights

Join us next Monday January 23 at 5 pm for our first Tea Talk of the term. We will be discussing the protests in Iran. Tea and snacks provided!

LawSHR is hosting a 50/50 raffle! Tickets go on sale March 24 and 25. We will be selling them on the couches outside the library. Cash and e-transfers are accepted. For e-transfers, please email [email protected].

Tickets are 1 for $2, 10 for $10 and 20 for $15.
Proceeds will be going towards the coalition for justice and human rights. They are an independent advocacy and education network that ensures justice and accountability on human rights.

What they do:
- Draft human rights complaints where an individual feels they were discriminated against based on one of the following prohibited grounds: race, colour, ancestry, place of origin, religious beliefs, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, physical disability, mental disability, marital status, family status, source of income and sexual orintetion
- Advocate for individuals who feel they were treated unfairly by another individual, system, institution
Connect vulnerable individuals to services and organizations
- To learn more about what they do, visit their website https://www.coalition4jhr.org or follow Mark on twitter

Happening tomorrow!

Law Students for Human Rights “Decolonizing Law & Policy Making” panel, as part of Queen's Human Rights Law Club's “Colonialism in Modern Times” conference.

Our panel includes:

Naomi Sayers is a lawyer and indigenous feminist with nearly a decade of consultation experience. In 2020 she officially launched her own practice. She regularly advises on issues relating administrative law, human rights, police abuse/violence, constitutional issues, lobbying and law reform initiatives, and non-profits. Her clients have included all levels of government, other non-profits, and public relations groups. She also created an online reporting tool to help people document online harassment.

Niki Bains is settler lawyer living and working in Amiskwaciwâskahikan/Edmonton. She was born and raised on Treaty 6 territory. She has been involved in anti-racism education initiatives for the legal community, including co-creating the Anti-Racism Bookshelf, co-presenting workshops for lawyers, and co-teaching a course at the U of A Faculty of Law called Critical Perspectives on Race and the Law. She practices primarily in the areas of Aboriginal and constitutional law, serving First Nations clients.

Tamara Pearl is Nēhiyaw (Plains-Cree) from the One Arrow First Nation in Saskatchewan. Tamara originally joined the university of Alberta faculty of Law as an Indigenous Support Manager. In this role, she launched the Launchpaid into Law summer program with the Wahkohtowin Law and Governance Lodge which exposes Indigenous law students to Indigenous legal traditions and trains them in core legal skills before they begin their first year of law school. Tamara is now a PhD candidate in Law at the University of Ottawa with a focus on anti-dominance training in an anti-colonial framework for law school curriculum.

Check out our FB event page for more details
https://www.facebook.com/events/636590970902441?ref=newsfeed