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DESCRIPTION:\n	\n		\n			A talk by Alex Neve\, Secretary General\, Amnesty Interna
 tional Canada\, who will discuss the critical issue of torture around the 
 world.\n			Abstract\n			Around the world the scourge of torture continues to be 
 a global human rights crisis.  Governments deny it exists\; cover it up\; 
 excuse it in the name of security\; use it to terrorize opponents and mino
 rities\; brutally rely on it in fighting crime\; and pretend it only occur
 s in isolated cases.  Amnesty International’s research points to torture i
 n close to ¾ of the world’s states over the past five years. While torture
  is obviously not rampant in Canada\, that does not mean we are off the ho
 ok. There are many ways in which Canada is complicit in torture that has o
 ccurred in other countries. As well\, Canada falls short in ensuring justi
 ce for torture survivors and accountability of torturers.  And Canada inex
 plicably has not yet signed on to a 12-year old UN treaty dealing with tor
 ture prevention. Alex Neve will survey the state of the world and the stat
 e of the nation when it comes to combatting torture.\n			About the speaker\n			A
 lex Neve believes in a world in which the human rights of all people are p
 rotected. He has been a member of Amnesty International since 1985 and has
  served as Secretary General of Amnesty International Canada since 2000. I
 n that role he has carried out numerous human rights research missions thr
 oughout Africa and Latin America\, and closer to home to such locations as
  Grassy Narrows First Nation in NW Ontario and to Guantánamo Bay. He speak
 s to audiences across the country about a wide range of human rights issue
 s\, appears regularly before parliamentary committees and UN bodies\, and 
 is a frequent commentator in the media.\n			Alex is a lawyer\, with an LLB fr
 om Dalhousie University and a Masters Degree in International Human Rights
  Law from the University of Essex. He has served as a member of the Immigr
 ation and Refugee Board\, taught at Osgoode Hall Law School and the Univer
 sity of Ottawa\, been affiliated with York University's Centre for Refugee
  Studies\, and worked as a refugee lawyer in private practice and in a com
 munity legal aid clinic. He is on the Board of Directors of Partnership Af
 rica Canada\, the Canadian Centre for International Justice and the Centre
  for Law and Democracy. Alex has been named an Officer of the Order of Can
 ada\, a Trudeau Foundation Mentor and has received an honorary Doctorate o
 f Laws degree from the University of New Brunswick.\n		\n	\n\n \n
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LOCATION:NCDH 312\, Chancellor Day Hall\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1W9\, 36
 44 rue Peel
SUMMARY:Confronting a Human Rights Scourge: Canada and the Global Struggle 
 against Torture
URL:/law/channels/event/confronting-human-rights-scour
 ge-canada-and-global-struggle-against-torture-240581
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