{"id":25426,"date":"2021-02-11T15:32:26","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T20:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/its-cuthemedev1.carleton.ca\/law\/?page_id=25426"},"modified":"2025-07-14T10:34:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T14:34:30","slug":"projects-and-initiatives","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/projects-and-initiatives\/","title":{"rendered":"Projects and Initiatives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Projects and Initiatives\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/activist-in-residence-program\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Activist in Residence Program (AiR)<\/a><br>\nThe Activist in Residence project (AiR) is an initiative to host a human rights activist in the Department of Law and Legal Studies each year.&nbsp;&nbsp;Building on our successful participation in the Scholars at Risk program, the Department determined that it would like to explore ways to provide a home base for human rights activists, particularly at-risk human rights activists, within university departments. In addition to hosting an Activist in Residence, the AIR program also interviews with human right defenders. <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/activist-in-residence-program\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Learn more<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/scholars-at-risk-program\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Scholars at Risk Program (SAR)<\/a><br>\nFor the past two decades, the international Scholars at Risk (SAR) program has been uniting at-risk academics whose safety is threatened at home with temporary research and teaching positions for academics in new countries. The Department of Law and Legal Studies joined the SAR network in 2014. <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/scholars-at-risk-program\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<\/a> about this program and the inaugural Scholar at Risk hosted by our Department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/gem\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gender Equality Measurement (GEM)<\/a><br>\nThe Gender Equality Measurement project is a research network that was initiated in 2011. It connects feminist scholars at Carleton University with gender equality consultants, policy makers, and civil society organizations within Canada and internationally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisontransparencyproject.com\/\">Prison Transparency Project (PTP)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Prison Transparency Project is an international research and advocacy partnership between academics, NGOs, folx with lived experience, advocates, artists, and journalists, working to expose failures of carceral transparency in Argentina, Canada, and Spain. Our goal is to create a knowledge base that will push for greater transparency in carceral systems worldwide, and raise awareness of the crisis of transparency in carceral facilities. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisontransparencyproject.com\/\">Follow us<\/a> in our efforts to bring change to the world as we know it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Activist in Residence Program (AiR) The Activist in Residence project (AiR) is an initiative to host a human rights activist in the Department of Law and Legal Studies each year.&nbsp;&nbsp;Building on our successful participation in the Scholars at Risk program, the Department determined that it would like to explore ways to provide a home base [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cu_dining_location_slug":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_page_type":[],"class_list":["post-25426","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25426"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32964,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25426\/revisions\/32964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=25426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}