{"id":17045,"date":"2015-12-11T14:35:58","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T19:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/its-cuthemedev1.carleton.ca\/law\/?p=17045"},"modified":"2025-06-23T11:43:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T15:43:11","slug":"prof-raeesi-scholars-at-risk-program-honored-at-house-of-commons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/2015\/prof-raeesi-scholars-at-risk-program-honored-at-house-of-commons\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Raeesi, Scholars at Risk program honored at House of Commons"},"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                        Prof. Raeesi, Scholars at Risk program honored at House of Commons\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/facultyrecruitment\/scholars-risk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Scholars at Risk program<\/a> and Prof. <a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/people\/raeesi-hossein\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hossein Raeesi<\/a> were honored in the House of Commons yesterday (on International Human Rights Day)!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Gary Anandasangaree<\/strong> (MP Scarborough-Rouge Park) took that opportunity to highlight the work that Carleton and the University of Ottawa are doing through the Scholars at Risk program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" src=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/Hossein-Raeesi_House1-400x533.jpg\" alt=\"Hossein Raeesi_House1\" class=\"wp-image-17046\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/Hossein-Raeesi_House1-400x533.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/Hossein-Raeesi_House1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/Hossein-Raeesi_House1-160x213.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/Hossein-Raeesi_House1-240x320.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/Hossein-Raeesi_House1-970x1293.jpg 970w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/Hossein-Raeesi_House1-660x880.jpg 660w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/Hossein-Raeesi_House1-480x640.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"767\" src=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/Hossein-Raeesi_Parliament_1.jpg\" alt=\"Hossein Raeesi_Parliament_1\" class=\"wp-image-17047\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/Hossein-Raeesi_Parliament_1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/Hossein-Raeesi_Parliament_1-768x575.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/Hossein-Raeesi_Parliament_1-160x120.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/Hossein-Raeesi_Parliament_1-240x180.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/Hossein-Raeesi_Parliament_1-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/Hossein-Raeesi_Parliament_1-970x727.jpg 970w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/Hossein-Raeesi_Parliament_1-660x494.jpg 660w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/Hossein-Raeesi_Parliament_1-480x360.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/people\/adrian-melanie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Prof.<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/people\/adrian-melanie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Melanie Adrian<\/a> and Prof. Raeesi also had an opportunity to meet <strong>Maryam Monsef<\/strong>, Minister of Democratic Institutions, and were able to share some ideas with her. It looks like there are some incredible supporters in the House!<br>\n<br>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Scholars at Risk program and Prof. Hossein Raeesi were honored in the House of Commons yesterday (on International Human Rights Day)! Gary Anandasangaree (MP Scarborough-Rouge Park) took that opportunity to highlight the work that Carleton and the University of Ottawa are doing through the Scholars at Risk program. Prof. Melanie Adrian and Prof. Raeesi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17046,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,546],"tags":[321,246,318,319,320,317,294,144],"class_list":["post-17045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sar","tag-gary-anandasangaree","tag-hossein-raeesi","tag-house-of-commons","tag-international-human-rights-day","tag-maryam-monsef","tag-parliament","tag-prof-melanie-adrian","tag-scholars-at-risk"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=17045"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25664,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17045\/revisions\/25664"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}