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CONFERENCE: The A Word: Reclaiming Advocacy
June 3, 2016 at 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
| Location: | Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, Desmarais Building, 55 Laurier Avenue East |
| Audience: | Anyone |
| Contact Email: | info@efryottawa.com |
| Contact Phone: | 613-237-7427 x113 |
On June 3, the Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies and the Elizabeth Fry Society of Ottawa will be bringing you “The A Word: Reclaiming Advocacy”, a conference. The conference will feature experts on Aboriginal women: crisis of inequality, holding government to account, Brain Injuries: implications for mental health, addictions & criminalization, policing violence against women, advocacy inside and out, including wrongful convictions, the role of the media, and where are we going? Confirmed speakers include:
- The Honourable Justice Louise Arbour, former Commissioner to investigate and report on P4W inquiry, former Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal tribunal for Rwanda and of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and former Justice on the Supreme Court of Canada
- Dawn Harvard, President of the Native Women’s Association of Canada
- Howard Sapers, Correctional Investigator of Canada
- Renu Mandhane, Chief Commissioner of the Ontario Human Rights Commission
- Leighann Burns, Executive Director at Harmony House
- Sunny Marriner, Executive Director at Ottawa Rape Crisis Centre
- Cheryl Webster, Associate Professor, Criminology, University of Ottawa
- Janet Mosher, Professor, Osgoode Law School, University of Toronto
- Dr. Flora Matheson, medical sociologist
- Dr. Angela Colantonio, Director of the Rehabilitation Sciences Institute at the University of Toronto
- Debra Parkes, Associate Dean in the Faculty of Law, University of Manitoba
- Maureen Brosnahan, investagative reporter for CBC News
- Julie Ireton, CBC reporter
- Sharon McIvor, McIvor v. Canada
- Cherry Smiley, First Nations feminist, artist and activist
- Patty Hajdu, Member of Parliament for Thunder Bay
- Sean Casey, the Member of Parliament for Charlottetown and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, Jody Wilson-Raybould
- Yasir Naqvi, Ontario Minister for Community Safety and Correctional Services
- Claudette Commanda, Algonquin Elder
- Albert Dumont, Poet, Storyteller, Speaker, and an Algonquin Traditional Teacher
- Raging Grannies, advocacy group
The event will be held at the University of Ottawa on Friday June 3. Register now to save your spot!