{"id":25688,"date":"2021-05-06T13:59:11","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T17:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/its-cuthemedev1.carleton.ca\/law\/?page_id=25688"},"modified":"2025-06-24T14:48:31","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T18:48:31","slug":"activist-in-residence-program","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/activist-in-residence-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Activist in Residence Program"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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<\/a>Activist in Residence Program<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

About the Program<\/a>
\nMeet our Activist in Residence<\/a>
\nInterviews with Human Rights Activists<\/a>
\nScholars At Risk Program<\/a>
\nNews<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

About the Activist in Residence Program<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Activist in Residence program (AiR) is an initiative to host a human rights activist in the Department of Law and Legal Studies each year.  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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The AiR program is designed to recognize the important role activists play in advancing the goals of protecting and fostering human rights.  The program provides an intellectual home for a human rights activist, while also providing our students and faculty members the opportunity to learn from someone with on the ground experience fighting to protect human rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AiR participants teach one course each year and are invited to further share their knowledge and experience through guest lectures, other speaking engagements and special initiatives.  In addition to teaching a fourth year seminar in Patriarchy, Human Rights and Informal Justice, our inaugural Activist in Residence, Rehana Hashmi, is producing a series of video interviews with human rights activists from around the globe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Department will launch a series of AIR Program initiatives in Summer and Fall 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We hope that this initiative will grow into a national network of Activists in Residence. <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meet our Activist in Residence<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Rehana Hashmi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Rehana Hashmi is a human rights defender and activist whose over 30 years of advocacy focuses on protecting women and minorities in Pakistan, her home country, from which she now lives in exile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2019, Hashmi was appointed as the inaugural Activist in Residence (AIR) in the Department of Law and Legal Studies at Carleton University\u2014a position that is the first of its kind in Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Learn more about Rehana Hashmi<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Watch an interview with Rehana Hashmi<\/a>. <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Interviews with Human Rights Activists<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In our interview series, Rehana Hashmi interviews human rights activists from around the world to hear about their life, activist work and the strategies activists employ in pursuit of defending human rights.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Introducing Rehana Hashmi, Activist in Residence<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Rehana Hashmi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

As part of the AiR Program, the Department\u2019s inaugural Activist in Residence, Rehana Hashmi, will be interviewing human right activists from around the world to learn more about their life, activist work and the strategies activists employ in pursuit of defending human rights. However, for the first interview in this series we focus on the life and work of Rehana Hashmi. Hashmi is a human rights defender and activist whose over 30 years of advocacy focuses on protecting women and minorities in Pakistan, her home country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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