About the Working Paper Series
The Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism (CHRLP) Working Paper Series enables the dissemination of papers by students who have participated in the CHRLP’s International Human Rights Internship Program.
Through the Program, students complete placements with NGOs and tribunals where they gain practical work experience in human rights investigation, monitoring, and reporting. Students then write a research paper through a peer review and support process while participating in a seminar that critically engages with human rights discourses.
In accordance with McGill University’s Charter of Students’ Rights, students in this course have the right to submit in English or in French any written work that is to be graded. Therefore, papers in this series may be in either language.
The papers in this series are distributed free of charge in PDF format. Papers may be downloaded for personal use only. The opinions expressed in these papers remain solely those of the author(s). They should not be attributed to the CHRLP or McGill University. The papers in this series are intended to elicit feedback and to encourage debate on important public policy challenges. Copyright belongs to the author(s).
The WPS aims to meaningfully contribute to human rights discourses and encourage debate on important public policy challenges. To connect with the authors or to provide feedback, please contact human.rights [at] mcgill.ca.
Summer 2023, Volume 12
Thomas Bissett – Indigenizing Canadian Sentencing: Before and After Gladue
Molly Hamilton – A Cautionary Tale of RCTs: A Potential Risk to Human Rights
Chlöe Shahinian – Understanding, and Problematizing, the Allegedly Anti-colonial Justifications of Anti-LGBTI Legislation in Uganda
Ashna Hudani – Locating International Law within Systems of Power: A Critical Analysis of the Genocide Convention
Song-Ly Tran – Negotiating the Transition from War to Peace: The Fatal Flaws of Sudan's 2019 Constitutional Charter
Philippe Haddad – Navigating the Complexities of Harmful Social and Cultural Practices: Examining the Gendered Paradigms of African Human Rights Law
Pénélope Fernandez-Busto – Practice What You Preach: Barriers to Holding the IFC Accountable for Cambodia’s Microloan Crisis
Maxime Touchette – Rome Wasn’t Built in a Quarter Century: Reassessing the Relationship Between African States and the International Criminal Court
Nicholas Duguay – Taking the Truth Seriously: The Ideal Methodologies for Truth Commissions
Theadora Sauvé – Shortcomings of Namibian Legal Pluralism: Focus on Customary Law
Gabrielle Torrealba – Prohibitions Against Criminal Record and Criminal Charge Discrimination in Canada: A Comparative Assessment
Ezequiel Indriago Perez – Silent Threats: 3D Guns, Trafficking, and the United States’ Duty to Respond
Charlotte Massue – Mass Deportations of Black Sub-Saharan Africans from Tunisia: A Response to the Encroaching European Policy of Containment
Michelle Akim – Human Rights in the (Social) Media Contract: Digital Constitutionalism’s Response to Government Censorship Online
Ashli Au – The Legal Rights and Protections of Indigenous Claimant Groups: A Case Study on Viet Nam
Liora Amsellem – Accusations of Witchcraft Against Children in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Law
Sofia Watt Sjöström – Still Fighting for Basic Environmental Rights: A Critique of Powley’s Application to Métis in Saskatchewan
Toby Moore – A Human Rights, Legal and City-Level Approach to Address Homeless Encampments in Canada
Summer 2022 - Volume 11
Angela, Yang - Refugees and the Digital Passage to Europe: Navigating the Right to Privacy within the EU Border Infrastructure
Poonam, Sandhu - Positive Complementarity as Justice? The Case for International Criminal Court Proceedings In Situ
Joshua A, Singer Johnson - Selective Forgetfulness: Decolonisation, Erasure, and Reconciliation in Post-Colonial Namibia
Charlotte, Ridsdale - Fueling the Flames: Online Social Platform Responsibility for Harmful Content in Conflict Zones
Cassandra, Betts - An Analysis of the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice's Treatment of Right to Life Claims from 2015–2022
Ella, Johnson - The Rule of Law or the Rule of (Corporate) Power? The Criminalization of Environmental Defenders in Iran, the United States, and India
Rebecca, Clayton - A Critical Legal Analysis of Marital Rape in Uganda
Renée, Lehman - Conscription as a Human Rights Violation: A Consideration in the Prosecution of Russian Soldiers for Crimes Against Humanity
Hannah, Reardon - The Case for Recognizing Indigenous Inherent Jurisdiction Over Criminal Justice Matters
Eric, Epp - Who Did You Say Your Grandma Was? Indigenous Kinship Webs Giving Rise to Individual Rights and Freedoms
Noémie, Richard - Access to Justice, Land Tenure Security, and Small-Scale Farming - Fulfilling the Right to an Adequate Standard of Living
Sophie, Bisping - Expanding Notions of Transitional Justice in Sri Lanka through Grassroots Memorialization Initiatives
Angela, Nassar - A Broken Relationship Between Human Rights and the State: The Story of Political Corruption in Peru
Nicolas, Kamran - Courts Without Reports: The Problematic Absence of Gladue Reports at the Nunavut Court of Justice
Summer 2021 - Volume 10
Shona, Moreau - Je t’aime… comme un.e ami.e Partenariat de vie non conjugal
Camila, Franco - The Fake News Virus Killing Democracy
Kassandra, Neranjan - Legal Lacunae and Coercive Control: Employing International Law to Combat Canadian Intimate Partner Violence
Attou, Mamat - Le Printemps érable, Black Lives Matter et la protection du droit de manifester au Québec
Janelle, Deniset - Une approche interdisciplinaire pour lutter contre les mariages d’enfants précoces et forcés
Ellen, Spannagel - Bearing Witness - The Ethics of Being Paid in Exposure in Human Rights Reporting
Garima, Karia - When Words Can Do Justice - Assessing the Novel Relationship Between Legislative Drafting and Access to Administrative Justice in Yukon and Canada
Chloe, Rourke - Autonomy and Expanded Access to Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada's Bill C7 - Moving Towards Substantive Liberty
Emma Sitland - Accountability Gaps in International Justice: Can Corporations Be Held Accountable for Crimes Against Humanity in Xinjiang?
Christoph Ivancic - Regulating the Metaverse of Ideas? Free Speech as a Triangle, New School Moderation, and the Algorithm in Canada
Isabel Baltzan - Adopting Universal Design in Disability Policy: An Approach to Centering People with Disabilities
Ashley Clark - Environmental Refugees:The Right to Have Rights
Landry Kendra - Disability, Autonomy, and Social Inclusion - Supported Decision - Making and Canada's Reservation to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Hannah MacLean Reaburn - Approaches to Human Rights Work in Governmental and Non-Governmental Organizations
Bryce Lansdell - Living the Treaty Relationship: The Role of Courts in Treaty Revitalization Today
Olivia Kostin-Cohen - From Flight to Flourishing: Enabling Displaced Talent Mobilization in Canada
Taryn Wilkie - Peace by Meaningful Inclusion: The Impact of Women on Peacebuilding in Sri Lanka, Liberia, and Afghanistan
Lopes Gabriela - The Interpersonal Sites of Systemic Perpetuation - How the Inheritance of Generational Trauma Has Culminated in a Global System of Exploitation
Leonard Niamh - Breaking the Silence - The Path Towards Stronger Whistleblower Protection Laws in Canada
McGaughey Clara - Girls’ Education and Climate Resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa’s Agricultural Sector
Nutakor April Amanda - Reconciling the Tension between Indigenous Peoples’ Right to Culture through Land Use and the State’s Right to Development - An Examination of the African and Inter-American Human Rights Sys
Pineau, Nicholas - Harm Reduction and Human Rights - Emphasizing the Dignity and Capabilities of People Who Use Drugs
Cline, Johanna - Doubling Rent and Denying Dignity - The Affordable Housing Crisis in New Brunswick
Federico Díaz Chacón - Participation Rights as Remedy for Systemic Discrimination in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
Alex Recher - What's the Harm CEDAW and the Relationship between HR and Culture
Laurence LeBlanc - Anti-Politics Machine of Child Labour Abolition Discourse Marketing SDG Target 8.7
Summer 2020 - Volume 9
Gabriela Lopes - The Ideology of Property Rights and the System it Created
Nilani Ananthamoorthy - Stewart and the Struggle to Assess Complaints of Workplace Discrimination Against Persons with Addictions
Maya Gunnarsson - Canada in Transitional Justice? Situating the Indian Day School Settlement Agreement on Canada's Pathway to Decolonization
Sandrine Royer - Politiques migratoires restrictives: Les répercussions du cadre législatif migratoire péruvien sur les migrants vénézuéliennes
Hanna Rioseco - The Promise and Peril of Biometrics in Delivering Humanitarian Aid
Kayla Maria Rolland - COVID-19, 'Learn at Home' & Students with Disabilities in Ontario
Marie-Denise Vane - Pourquoi le droit à l'égalité est insuffisant: Un plaidoyer pour la constitutionnalisation du droit au respect
Gemma Dingwall - Welcome Home: Using Housing to Address Recidivism among Indigenous People in Canada
Mahima Kapur - Consent, Creditability, and Coercion: Understanding Violence Against Women in Rural Haryana
Jasmine Razavi - Santé mentale au travail: Les manquements de l'approche systémique au Québec
Alice Jeon - The Long Road Towards a Prison Needle Exchange Program in Canada
Andrea Sim - Barriers to Belonging: Navigating Approaches to Protecting Refugees' Access to Healthcare in Canada
Sara Wright- Workplace Sexual Harassment in the Yukon: An Opportunity to Sustainably Change Workplace Culture
Summer2019- Volume 8
Emma, Brown - Civic Space Indicators: Blurred Reflections
Kelly O'Connor - Colombia’s Jurisdicción Especial para la Paz (JEP): An Effective Instrument of Transitional Justice
Vanessa Di Feo - Corporate Social Responsibility Through the Lens of Investment Law: Will Any Solution Work Without the Rule of Law?
Jennifer Lachance - Comment réconcilier l’enfant né du viol avec sa mère : les enfants coupables d’êtres nés
Natalia Koper - Between Gender and Ethnicity: The Becoming of an Awajún Woman and Sexual Violence in Peru
Bianca Braganza - The Illusion of Redress and Redistribution: South Africa, Namibia and Black Economic Empowerment
Katrina Bland - Criminal Prosecutions as a Transitional Justice Mechanism in Post-Conflict Uganda: Responding to the Needs of Formerly Abducted Individuals
Jessica Michelin - The Special Criminal Court in the Central African Republic: Progress and Challenges for the Hybrid Tribunal
Derek Pace - Service and Subordination: Human Rights Perspectives on the Domestic Work Sector in the United Arab Emirates
Riley Klassen-Molyneaux - Doing Good and Feeling Good: A Critical Analysis of NGO Research
Félix-Antoine Pelletier - Moroccan Penal Code: To Fast or Not to Fast
Samantha Backman - The Right to Legal Capacity for Canadians with Disabilities: A Quest for Dignity, Equality, and Autonomy
Kayla Miguez - Approaches to Strengthening Access to Healthcare in a Rural British Columbian Context: Harnessing Voice and Lived-Experience
Eva Monteiro - Amnestysia: On the intersection of amnesty and truth- seeking in pursuit of national reconciliation under the shadow of the 2020 elections in Côte d’Ivoire
Jeremy Pizzi - A Prosthesis for a Limbless Giant: Proposing an Improved Model for Arrest Warrant Enforcement at the ICC
Kirstie Russell - “God Is Not Dead, At Least Not Here”: Ethical Understanding as a Basis for Improving Engagement Between Multilateral Health Organizations and Faith-based Organizations
Kathleen Barera - The Philippines’ War on Drugs (Read: The Poor): The Erosion of the Rule of Law and the Violation of Children’s Human Rights
Julia Green - Faith-Based Organizations in Sub-Saharan Africa: Negatives, Positives, and Recommendations for Effective Promotion of Human Rights
Adelise Lalande - Access Denied: Business, Human Rights, and Networked Authoritarianism in Cambodia
Linda Muhugusa - Tourism as a Tool of Human Development: A Double-Edged Sword for The Gambia
Summer 2018- Volume 7
Rose Adams - Gladue, Ipeelee and the Justice System’s Bias against Indigenous People: The Story of Sasktachewan and How We Can Change Its Ending
Elisabeth Beauchamp - Désinstitutionnalisation des personnes âgées: une approche comparée avec les personnes handicapées
Alicia Blimkie - Crime and Poverty: Criminalization and Empowerment of the Poor in the Philippines
Allen Brett Campeau - Indigenous Rights, Collective Responsibilities, and Relationship To Land In Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe “Dish With One Spoon” Territory
Alix Genier - La déclaration des nations unies sur les droits des paysans et des autres personnes travaillant dans les zones rurales: un instrument ambitieux, audacieux, mais faible…?
Sara Gold - Somos Americanos? The Potential of the Inter-American Human Rights System for Indigenous Justice in Canada
Guillaume Lebrun-Petel - Une « crise » à résoudre : décentralisation et politique de développement de la petite enfance au Sénégal
Magnus Manhart - “Backpack Refugee Rights Lawyering” in Greece: Access to Justice through Legal Empowerment
Nicole Maylor - A Modern Gordian Knot: Identifying Creative Solutions to Economic Policy, Poverty and Piracy in the Philippines
Renaude Morin - Quel droit au travail pour les jeunes au Maroc? Leçons des revendications au droit au travail des jeunes diplômés chômeurs
Francesca Nardi - Bridging the Gap: Reconciling Feminist and Disability Perspectives on Prenatal Screening
Caroline Schurman-Grenier - Plastic Pollution as a Violation of the Right to a Healthy Environment in the African Charter of Human and People’s Rights
Maia Stevenson - Technologically- Facilitated Violence Against Women and Girls: The Canadian Compromise
Charlotte Vimont - Restriction, Unfairness, Hostility or The Restraint to the Right of Asylum: A Deviation from the Founding Principle of France
Yulia Yugay - Legislative Barriers to Security and Dignity of Women in Kenya
Summer 2017 - Volume 6
Julia Bellehumeur - Countering Disbelief in Sexual Assault Laws
Monika Erzsebet Berenyi - Towards Inclusive Security and Durable Peace: Enabling Space for Women’s Formal Participation in Peace Processes
Sarah Cha - Deconstructing Human Trafficking and Victimization: A Reshaping of Canadian Discourses and Policies
Taylor Gillespie - Towards a Level Playing Field: The right to sport for persons with disabilities as a tool to facilitate development
Anastasia Greenberg - Is Talk Cheap? Empirical Approaches to Assessing the Impact of Human Rights Advocacy Organizations
Rebecca Jones - Breaking Down the Walls: Coordinating Legal and Extra-Legal Strategies to Abolish Solitary Confinement in Canada
Nathalie Laflamme - The Right to No Rite: Ending Female Genital Mutilation Through Human Rights Education Practices
Caroline Lavoie - Morocco’s Equity and Reconciliation Commission & the Restoration of Dignity
David Matyas - Short Circuit: A Failing Technology for Administering Justice in Nunavut
Jillian Ohayon - Following the Herd: The Influence of Religion and National Identity on Antigay Sentiment in Uganda
Sara Pierre - Human Rights Violations and Accusations of Witchcraft in Ghana
Kevin Pinkoski - Managing Diversity for Development: A comparative study of cultural diversity and development in Namibia and Canada
Talia Ralph - Towards True Food Systems Sustainability: Protecting Food Labourers’ Rights in A Food Policy for Canada
Andrew Rintoul - Civil Society as the Point of Departure: Repression, Resilience and Robustness in Cambodia
Sarah-Grace Ross - Finance for Health: Closing the HIV Funding Gap
Summer 2016- Volume 5
Nour Saadi - La volonté politique et la capacité nationale : Le massacre du 28 septembre et la Cour pénale internationale
Fiona Cooke - Alternative Sanctions for International Crimes: Considering the Colombian Model
Shaké Sarkhanian - Diplomatic Spaces, Indigenous Voices, and Equity in a Shifting Paradigm of Global Governance
Nigah Awj - Right of a child with disabilities to NOT be institutionalized
Alexander Agnello - Extrajudicial Killings and Human Rights Education in the Philippines
Amanda Arella - Murky Waters: Evaluating the Role of Campaign Ships on the High Seas
Antoine Beauchemin - Homosexualité au Maroc post-2011 : possibilités d’émancipation dans un décor couvert d’obstacles
Blake Connell - Is it Really ‘All for One and One for All’? The Strengths and Weaknesses of the ‘LGBTI’ Label in Australian Rights Advocacy
André Moreau - Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights in Uganda: Overcoming Barriers in the Pursuit of Justice, Equity and Prosperity
André Capretti - Human Rights, Rule of Law and Democracy in Post-Conflict Cambodia: Failures of the Paris Peace Agreement and Promises for Cambodia’s Future
Jacinthe Dion - Falling Through the Cracks: Canadian Indigenous Children with Disabilities
Amelia Philpott - Revisioning a Restorative Justice Response to the Crisis of Indigenous Overrepresentation in the Canadian Criminal Justice System
Émilie de Haas - A Commitment to Reconciliation: Canada’s Next Steps in the Post-TRC Phase
Rachel Kohut - ‘War on Drugs’—or on Pregnant Women who Use Drugs? Situating Russia and Canada in Global Drug Policy
Summer2015 - Volume 4
Michel Bélanger-Roy - Objectifs du Millénaire et droits humains: Prendre la mesure du progrès
Frédérique St-Jean - La culture comme alliée du discours féministe: une étude de la situation tunisienne
Sarah Chenevert-Beaudoin - Susciter l'empathie pour lutter contre les violations des droits de la personne: Perspectives critiques
Jessica De Santi - "Dancing is for everybody": Street dance and cultural rights in Montreal
Olivier Beaubien - Légitimité du Commentaire général no. 1 du Comité sur les droits des personnes handicapées
Dominic Bell - Alcoholism in the North: Conceptualizing the Agency in Crime
Summer2014- Volume 3
Arielle Corobow - A New Vision for Human Rights Education in Quebec High Schools
Amélia Couture - The Politics of International Justice: the Security Council’s Impact on the Independence, Effectiveness and Legitimacy of the International Criminal Court
Jacinthe Poisson - Indigenous collective property: comparative study of the Canadian and the Inter-American systems
Iñaki Navarrete "" [.pdf] Published in the Revue québécoise de droit international 28.2 (2015)
Nicolas Aubin - Revisiting the (Hi)story: the Role of High School History Education in our Inability to Understand Environmental Challenges
Suzanne Zaccour - « C’est la faute à la culture! » Critique de la culturalisation du harcèlement de rue au Cameroun
Veaceslav Balan - Human Rights, Human Rights Based Approach, Empowerment and Development: Case Study Of Moldova and its Broader Lessons
Prophète Arbouet - ٲè and Access to Justice
Matthias Heilke - Thinking Small: The Possibilities of Tort Law in Strategic Litigation for the Right to Health
Kyle Best - The Development of Piracy Law in West Africa & the Institutions Underpinning Counter-Piracy Efforts
Summer2013- Volume 2
Angela Slater - Traditional Legal Institutions through a Rule of Law Lens: the Chieftaincy in Ghana
Emily Hazlett - Disability Rights in a post-Convention Era: Protecting Legal Capacity at the European Court and Beyond
Laura Rhodes - Supplementary Governance by Business for Human Rights Protection in Resource-Based Conflict
Diya Bouchedid - Le système de contrôle international des drogues et les Droits de l’homme: Cohésion ou Confrontation?
Audrey Mocle - Reshaping the Bad Barrel: Strategies for Human Rights Organizations to Mitigate the Situational and Systemic Forces Influencing Corporate Human Rights Abuse
Lipi Mishra - Medicine and Marginalization: How Intellectual Property Laws Provide a “Generic” Solution to a Grave Human Rights Problem
David Nugent - Recent Amendments to Nunavut’s Liquor Act: A Sensible Approach to Alcohol-Related Harm?
Charlotte-Anne Malischewski - Where the Exception is the Norm: The Production of Statelessness in India
Summer2012- Volume 1
Éloïse Ouellet-Décoste. Forced Evictions & Grassroots Resistance in Phnom Penh: Lessons for advancing the rule of law in weak and captured states.
Read it: 2013_ihri_wps_v1n1-ouellet-decoste.pdf
Jacqueline Madden. Engaging with Customary Law in Timor-Leste: Approaches to Increasing Women’s Access to Justice.
Read it: 2013_ihri_wps_v1n2-madden.pdf
Anne-Claire Gayet. Contexts of Structural Discrimination in the Jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
Read it: 2013_ihri_wps_v1n3-gayet.pdf
Chris Durrant. “None of that Paper Stuff Works”: An Anti-Essentialist and Anti-Colonial Analysis of Efforts to End Domestic Assault in Nunavut.
Read it: 2013_ihri_wps_v1n4-durrant.pdf
Melissa Austen. The Unfinished Philippine Juvenile Justice Puzzle: the Missing Normative Piece to Restorative Youth Justice Legislation.
Read it: 2013_ihri_wps_v1n6-austen.pdf
Jeanne Mageau-Taylor. La question LGBT au Cameroun: Réflexions sur la criminalisation des pratiques homosexuelles et sur ses effets.
Read it: 2013_ihri_wps_v1n7_mageau-taylor.pdf
Will Collish. The International Criminal Court in Guinea: A Case Study of Complementarity.
Read it: 2013_ihri_wps_v1n8-collish.pdf
Molly Joeck. Gender Inequality and NGOs in Africa.
Read it: 2013_ihri_wps_v1n10-joeck.pdf
Edward Béchard-Torres. Finding Their Way by Conceptualizing Their Role: Court Orders and Social Rights in South Africa.
Read it: 2013_ihri_wps_v1n11-bechardtorres.pdf
