ÉtudesQuatrième partie : Canada et le Système Interaméricain de protection des droits humains

The Inter-American System's Recent Contributions to the Development of Women's Human Rights Standards[Notice]

  • Bernard Duhaime et
  • Nancy R. Tapias Torrado

Bernard Duhaime is a Full Professor of International Law at the Faculty of Law and Political Science of the University of Quebec in Montreal. He also served as a Member of the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (2014-2021). Prof. Duhaime is currently a Fellow of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, a visiting professor at the University Paris II Panthéon-Assas and an associate research fellow at the Geneva Academy. He is also senior fellow at the Raoul Wallenberg Center for Human Rights and a member of the advisory board of the University Network for Human Rights, of the Torture Journal, and of the Center for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism at McGill University. He is a Senior Counsel at the Quebec Bar (Canada). Prof. Duhaime directs the S’ouvrir aux Amériques (SOAA) project at the UQAM.

Nancy R. Tapias Torrado is a Colombian human rights lawyer (U. Javeriana; U. Essex), doctor in Sociology (U. Oxford) and postdoctoral fellow in the Faculty of Political Science and Law at the UQAM. Her research focuses on the impact of social movement organizations led by Indigenous women on the practice of corporate actors involved in mega-projects in the Americas. For almost a decade and until 2015, she was the Researcher on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders in the Americas with Amnesty International. She has consulted for the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Center for Justice and International Law and Peace Brigades International, among others.

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