Is Canada a Religiously Neutral State?

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Van Staveren
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
International Studies ◽  
International Level ◽  
International Affairs ◽  
Legal Studies ◽  
Life Path ◽  
Areas Of Interest ◽  
The University

<div class="page" title="Page 3"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span>Karen Van Staveren is a recent graduate of the University of Waterloo- St. Jerome’s. She has just completed her undergraduate degree in Honours Legal Studies minoring in International Studies. She is looking to continue her studies in the fall at the Balsillie School of International Affairs doing her Masters in International Affairs. Her areas of interest include human rights and the intersectionality of gender and religion in policy. She hopes to go into policy development and analysis at a federal or international level. Her vast volunteer experience has and continues </span>to influence her life path as she hopes to eventually go into the realm of social justice. </p></div></div></div>

Authority of Law: An Analysis of The Role of Police

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Veronika Keir
Keyword(s):  
Policy Development ◽  
Crime Control ◽  
Legal Theory ◽  
Research Policy ◽  
Further Education ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Legal Research ◽  
Legal Studies ◽  
The University

<div class="page" title="Page 3"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span>Veronika is a recent graduate from the Honours Legal Studies program at the University of Waterloo. Her passions are socio-legal research, policy development, feminist legal theory, and crime control development. Veronika is currently working a full-time job at Oracle Canada, planning on pursuing further education in a Masters program. </span></p></div></div></div>

Human Rights and Social Work in Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Obie Clayton ◽  
June Gary Hopps
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
First Century ◽  
International Level ◽  
Human Rights Standards ◽  
Rights Issues ◽  
Individual Human

The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) affirms a social worker’s responsibility to social change and social justice on behalf of vulnerable and oppressed peoples (NASW, 2008). Because of this directive around social justice, it is the profession’s responsibility to make connections between individual human rights issues within the broader social, economic, and cultural context that creates conditions where injustice can take place. This article attempts to illustrate how social workers in the twenty-first century must be able to recognize and emphasize human rights in their practice on a local, national, and international level. The article also shows the need for social workers to be the catalyst bringing attention to the need to craft solutions to human rights violations that take into account global human rights standards.

The Benefits of an Intersectional Approach to Violence Against Women in Indigenous Communities

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tearney Johnston-Jones
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Private Enterprise ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Legal Issues ◽  
Legal Studies ◽  
The University

<div class="page" title="Page 3"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span>Tearney recently graduated from the University of Waterloo’s Honours Arts and Business Co-op program, where she studied Legal Studies and Political Science. Throughout her studies, she developed her passion for legal analyses in the context of policy development and reform. In the academic sphere, she geared her focus towards feminist legal issues, and specifically those pertaining to prejudices against women. As she moves on to begin her Juris Doctor (JD) studies this fall, she plans to use her knowledge of the legal framework and the necessary cooperation between public-private enterprise, to assist in future consultations between industry and public institutions. </span></p></div></div></div>

scholarly journals Systemic barriers and allyship in library publishing: A case study reminder that no one is safe from racism

2020 ◽  
Vol 81 (3) ◽  
pp. 141
Author(s):  
Charlotte Roh ◽  
Vanessa Gabler
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Indigenous Women ◽  
Academic System ◽  
Publishing Program ◽  
The University

As librarians and library publishers, we frequently engage in scholarly communication efforts that serve a social justice agenda. For example, at the University of San Francisco, we are proud to publish the International Journal of Human Rights Education, of which the latest issue is devoted to indigenous women in research. There are moments, however, when we are reminded that, despite our best efforts, we still operate in an educational and academic system that is rooted in white supremacy and colonialism. The following are examples of bias encountered by the University Library System, University of Pittsburgh’s (ULS) publishing program and others, as well as a discussion of the ways in which we as librarians and library publishers can push back against systemic injustices.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yinka Omorogbe ◽  
Ada Okoye Ordor
Keyword(s):  
Policy Development ◽  
Research Collaboration ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
Energy Access ◽  
Developmental Issues ◽  
Legal Studies ◽  
Stakeholder Input ◽  
Multi Stakeholder ◽  
University Of Cape Town ◽  
The University

The research collaboration that led to the production of this book was supported by the TY Danjuma Fund for Law and Policy Development at the University of Cape Town. The primary collaboration between the Centre for Comparative Law in Africa (CCLA) at the University of Cape Town (UCT) and the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (NIALS) was established in 2014 as the CCLA–NIALS partnership—a fundamental term of the TY Danjuma endowment at UCT. The editors therefore express their gratitude to General TY Danjuma GCON for the generous and far-sighted support of this collaborative model of Africa-focused research. Indeed, African investment in collaborative and multi-disciplinary research such as this exemplifies the multi-stakeholder input that needs to foreground any meaningful intervention in Africa’s developmental issues, including the pervasive issue of energy access....

Unaccompanied Young Migrants

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Human Geography ◽  
International Studies ◽  
Disciplinary Perspective ◽  
Care Systems ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Film Making

Taking a multi-disciplinary perspective, and one grounded in human rights, this book explores in depth the journeys unaccompanied child migrants take through the UK legal and care systems. Arriving with little agency, the book considers what becomes of these children as they grow and assume new roles and identities, only to risk losing legal protection as they reach eighteen. Through international studies, and crucially of the young migrants themselves, the book examines the narratives they present, and the frameworks of culture and legislation into which they are placed. Challenging existing policy, it questions, from a social justice perspective, what the treatment of this group tells us about our systems and the cultural presuppositions on which they depend. Contributors are researchers and practitioners in film-making, human geography, law, psychology, psychotherapy, social work and sociology,

scholarly journals The transparency syndrome in global change: A sociological concept paper

2002 ◽  
Vol 69 (412-414) ◽  
pp. 152-162
Author(s):  
Burkart Holzner ◽  
Leslie Holzner
Keyword(s):  
Global Change ◽  
Research And Development ◽  
Planned Change ◽  
International Studies ◽  
International Affairs ◽  
Development Activity ◽  
University Of Pittsburgh ◽  
University Center ◽  
Assistant Director ◽  
The University

Burkart Holzner is Distinguished Service Professor of International Studies, Professor of Sociology and of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh. For two decades he was the Director of the University Center for International Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. He wrote about knowledge systems in society, and about the roles of knowledge use in modernity. His recent work is on international studies and global change. Currently he works with Leslie Holzner on a long-term project to explain the causes and consequences of the rise of transparency in global change. Dr Holzner is a member of the World Society for Ekistics (WSE). Leslie Holzner is a sociologist who has worked for the past several years with her husband on the issue of transparency and other global phenomena. She spent 30 years at the University of Pittsburgh where she was Assistant Director of the Learning Research and Development Center. Her research and development activity has centered on planned change, and restructuring organizations, with an emphasis on educational institutions. The text that follows is a slightly edited and revised version of a paper prepared for the WSE Symposion "Defining Success of the City in the 21st Century," Berlin, 24-28 October, 2001.

Task Force: A Senior Seminar for Undergraduate Majors in International Studies

1989 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-7
Author(s):  
Richard J. Ellings ◽  
Kimberly Rush ◽  
Andrew H. Cushman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Task Force ◽  
Policy Issue ◽  
International Studies ◽  
International Affairs ◽  
Woodrow Wilson ◽  
Task Forces ◽  
Policy Problem ◽  
The University

Task Force is a small group seminar required of all seniors in the Henry M. Jackson School's International Studies Program at the University of Washington. Five or more seminars are offered in the winter quarter, and each focuses on a current policy issue. In recent years, Task Forces have dealt with such topics as strategic arms control, apartheid, United States policy towards Central America, the future of NATO, and United States trade with Japan. The following is an abridged version of the handbook which serves as a general guide for Task Force students, instructors, and evaluators.The International Studies Program at the Jackson School introduces undergraduate students to world affairs through traditional and multidisciplinary coursework. Its curriculum draws on economics, geography, history, political science, sociology, languages and literature, religious studies, and many other disciplines. The program also recognizes that the study of international affairs is rooted in policy issues and processes. It is this notion which underlies the concept of Task Force.The organization and operation of Task Force were inspired by the Policy Conference of Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. The Policy Conference, which was initiated in 1930, consists of 25-30 people and operates much like a Presidential Commission or other investigative group. Its members explore a policy problem through research and discussions with experts; they debate the merits of policy proposals and arrive at a set of policy recommendations.

scholarly journals CALL FOR PAPERS: "On Art" and "W(h)ither Human Rights?"

2008 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rocque Reynolds
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Online Journal ◽  
Sound Recordings ◽  
University Of Technology ◽  
Multi Media ◽  
The University

Public Space: the Journal of Law and Social Justice is the new multi-media peer reviewed online journal published by the Faculty of Law of the University of Technology, Sydney and UTS ePress. Our multi-media capability means that contributors can include photographic, video and sound recordings in their text-based contribution or submit a purely image-based or sound-based contribution. Our first two editions can be viewed at http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/ojs/index.php/publicspace We are now calling for papers for our next two editions due for publication in March 2009 and September 2009. The March edition is “On Art”. The September edition is “W(h)ither Human Rights?""

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