Past Projects

Amicus interventions in Domestic Courts

• Yaiguaje v. Chevron - Right to an effective remedy for human rights violations committed by transnational corporations (2014)
• Kazemi, et al v. The Islamic Republic of Iran, et al. - Right to a meaningful remedy for human rights violations. (November 15th, 2013)            
• Ezokola v. Minister of Citizenship and Immigration - Refugee exclusion provision (December 20th, 2012)
• Canadian (Prime Minister) v. Khadr - Protecting the rights of Canadians abroad (February 22nd, 2008 & October 19th, 2009)
• Charkaoui v. Canada - Challenge to the Canadian Security Certificate Regime (May 25th, 2006)
• Regina v. Mugesera - Accountability for Crimes Against Humanity 

Human Rights Investigation and Reporting

• HRW Submission to the Government of Canada on Police Abuse of Indigenous omen in Saskatchewan and Failures to Protect Indigenous Women from Violence (June 19, 2017)
• Invisible Citizens: Canadian Children in Immigration Detention (2017)
• ‘No Life for a Child’: A Roadmap to End Immigration Detention of Children and Family Separation (2016)
• Fearful Silence: The Chill on India's Public Sphere (2016)
• ‘Unsafe’ and on the Margins: Canada’s Response to Mexico’s Mistreatment of Sexual Minorities and People Living with HIV (2016)
• "We Have No Rights": Arbitrary Imprisonment and Cruel Treatment of Migrants with Mental Health Issues in Canada (2015)
• Imposing Silence: The Use of Law to Supress Free Speech in India (2015)
• Honduras: Journalism in the Shadow of Impunity (2014)
• Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading? Canada's Treatment of Federally-Sentenced Women wtih Mental Health Issues (2012)
• A Girl's Right to Learn Without Fear: Working to End Gender-Based Violence at School (2012)
• Presumed Innocent, Behind Bars: The Problem of Lengthy Pre-Trial Detention in Uganda (May 2011)
• Corruption, Impunity, Silence: The War on Mexico's Journalists (2011)

Advocacy in International Fora

• Rights Violations Associated with Canada's treatment of Vulnerable Persons in Immigration Detention (UPR Joint submission by IHRP, Amnesty International, Justice for Children and Youth, CARL, CCLA, BCCLA, RLO) (2017)
• Report to the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (Joint submission by IHRP, EarthRights International and Mining Watch Canada) (2017)
• PEN International, PEN Guatemala, PEN Canada and the IHRP Contribution to the 28th session of the Working Group of the Universal Periodic Review, Submission on Guatemala (March 30, 2017)
• Report of the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, and on the right to non-discrimination in this context, A/HRC/34/51 (2017)
• Submission on the combined eighth and ninth periodic reviews of Canada to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women  (October 3, 2016)
• PEN International, PEN Canada and the IHRP Contribution to the 27th session of the Working Group of the Universal Periodic Review, Submission on Brazil (September 21, 2016)
• Warsame v. Canada: Complaint to the UN Human Rights Committee  (July 21st, 2011)
• Submissions to the UN Special Rapporteur on Racism: Seeking Redress for Historic Rights Violations Against Chinese-Canadians (December 22, 2003)
• The Prosecutor v. Sam Hinga Norman - Protecting Children's Rights Before the Special Court for Sierra Leone (October 31st, 2003)

 Amicus practice in Foreign Courts

• Bringing an International Human Rights Perspective to the '160 Girls' Litigation (May 2013)
• Tanase v. Romania - Protecting Minority Rights before the European Court of Human Rights (May 26th, 2009)
• California Reference re: Marriage Cases: Freedom from Discrimination (January 6th, 2006)

Legislative and Policy Change

• Actions Speak Louder than Words: A Critical Analysis of GoldCorp's Human Rights and Corporate Social Responsibily (May 11th, 2011)
• Proposed Amendments to Canada's State Immunity Act 

Training Materials, Database Creation

• 3 to be free (2010)

Miscellaneous Research

•  Envisioning Global LGBT Human Rights through the UN Human Rights System (2012)

Please Note: Resources found on this page were prepared by law students; they are not exhaustive, nor are they updated on a regular basis. The information provided here is not a substitute for legal advice or legal assistance, and the International Human Rights program at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law cannot provide such advice or assistance.