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Monday, July 15, 2024

Struggle Across Borders: Report on the Experience and Needs of Exiled Activists and Human Rights Defenders in Canada

SAR Carleton is pleased to share this June 2024 report produced by two Ottawa-based NGOs working with exiled activists and human rights defenders: Resilient Societies and Cooperation Canada. The report, titled "Struggles Across Borders: Report on the Experience and Needs of Exiled Activists and Human Rights Defenders in Canada", outlines the same... More

Wednesday, July 10, 2024

A Successful Scholars at Risk 2024 Global Congress

With Canada Day quickly approaching, I am beyond proud to share what a privilege, honour and personal milestone it was for me to represent Canada and Carleton University at the 2024 Scholars at Risk (SAR) Congress, held this week in Vilnius, Lithuania. My mission while in attendance was to learn from global SAR programs... More

Monday, June 17, 2024

From War Zone to Graduate: Afghan Refugee Crosses the Stage Three Years After Fleeing

Award-winning Afghan journalist Farida Nekzad will graduate from Carleton’s School of Journalism and Communication on June 18, 2024 after fleeing the Taliban in the summer of 2021. With the help of Carleton’s president and provost, the dean of the Faculty of Public Affairs, and the Scholars at Risk program, she became a Journalist in... More

Tuesday, December 5, 2023

Photo Gallery: Scholars at Risk Summit Opening Night (November 20, 2023)

Photo credit: Mike Pinder... More

Wednesday, November 8, 2023

November is SAR Carleton’s Academic Freedom Month!

The defence of academic and intellectual freedom lies at the heart of everything Scholars at Risk's global network does. This month, SAR Carleton is supporting a number of initiatives dedicated to the support of research freedom everywhere. On November 2 and 3, Carleton hosted the first annual Placement, Preservation and Perseverance: Afghan... More

Monday, October 23, 2023

Shuchi Karim publishes article in new book, Gender, Sexuality and Social Justice (2023)

SAR committee member Shuchi Karim has just published an article on the LGBTQI+ movement in Bangladesh titled: "Politics of identities: Problematics of categories, labels and languages in LGBTQI+ movement in Bangladesh." The chapter is in Gender, Sexuality and Social Justice: Unpacking Dominant Development and Policy Discourses (Routledge,... More

Tuesday, October 10, 2023

SAR Carleton’s Norah Vollmer is honoured by the Institute of International Education-Scholar Rescue Fund

SAR Carleton is delighted to share the news that Norah Vollmer, who has been a key member of SAR since its inception at Carleton a decade ago, has been honoured with a Certificate of Appreciation by the Institute of International Education (IIE). The IIE funds the Scholar Rescue Fund (SRF), one of the key... More

Sunday, October 8, 2023

Placement, Preservation and Perseverance: Afghan scholars, students and activists 1st Annual Conference to be held at Carleton, Nov. 2-3, 2023

The first annual conference of the "Placement, Preservation and Perseverance: Afghan scholars, students and activists" (PPP) research project will be held at Carleton University on November 2-3. The PPP is a collaboration between Carleton University and the University of British Columbia, and supported by the government of Canada’s International... More

Wednesday, September 13, 2023

Carleton SAR Scholar Illia Kononov publishes an article on the geopolitics of Ukrainian refugees in NATO countries

Professor Illia Kononov, who has been a visiting professor from Ukraine since May 2022, recently published an article in the most recent issue of the Canadian Foreign Policy Journal, titled "Ukrainian refugees of the period of the Russian-Ukrainian war in NATO countries: the geopolitical context of the military migration crisis." The article... More

Monday, June 5, 2023

War and the University in Yemen

SAR Carleton's Prof. Mustafa Bahran (Department of Physics), along with Dr. Waheeba Fare'e, discuss the ongoing conflict in Yemen and its fallout for higher education. This is an episode in the ongoing podcast series "Universities and Crisis", which explores the social, economic and political forces shaping higher education today. Each month, Jee... More

Tuesday, April 11, 2023

“‘They cannot incarcerate my mind’: Carleton groups advocate for at-risk scholars.” Kyra Vellinga profiles SAR Carleton and Academia and Activism course

Carleton student Kyra Vellinga has published a feature-length article in The Charlatan on SAR Carleton's current work, as well as a profile of the work done by students in Prof. Melanie Adrian's Academia and Activism seminar. Click here to link to her... More

Sunday, April 2, 2023

UN Human Rights Council: 72 Countries urge greater cooperation to protect academic freedom

Scholars at Risk (SAR) commends France, South Africa, and 70 other countries around the globe who came together today before the United Nations Human Rights Council to issue an historic Joint Statement in support of Academic Freedom. SAR Executive Director Rob Quinn remarked on the statement: “As the signatories acknowledged, attacks against... More

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