{"id":17877,"date":"2015-11-13T11:12:03","date_gmt":"2015-11-13T16:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/edc\/?p=17877"},"modified":"2026-05-06T13:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T17:28:09","slug":"challenges-of-human-rights-defenders-scholars-at-risk-ottawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/2015\/challenges-of-human-rights-defenders-scholars-at-risk-ottawa\/","title":{"rendered":"Challenges of Human Rights Defenders &#8211; Scholars at Risk Ottawa"},"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                        Challenges of Human Rights Defenders &#8211; Scholars at Risk Ottawa\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Join Hossein Raeesi, Carleton and uOttawa\u2019s first Scholar At Risk, and Alan Neal, host of CBC Radio\u2019s All in a Day, on Nov. 30 for a special presentation on the challenges of human rights defenders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After working for 20 years in Shiraz as a criminal and human rights lawyer, Raeesi moved to Canada in 2012 to escape undue detention and legal actions from the Iranian government. Thanks to the Scholars at Risk program, he is now able to teach and learn in Ottawa free from prosecution.&nbsp;Learn more about <a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/edc\/2015\/from-iranian-lawyer-to-canadian-professor-spotlight-on-carletons-first-scholar-at-risk\/\">Raeesi&#8217;s experience as a Scholar at Risk<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The presentation will take place from 7-8:30 p.m. in room 2017 Dunton Tower.&nbsp;Prior to the main event, we are holding a reception from 6-7 p.m. and would like to invite any faculty writing on human rights to attend, bring their books, and speak to guests about their work. If you are interested in promoting your human rights work and joining the conversation, please contact <a href=\"mailto:norah.vollmer@carleton.ca\">Norah Vollmer<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Space is limited, so <a href=\"http:\/\/events.carleton.ca\/challenges-of-human-rights-defenders-scholars-at-risk-ottawa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">register here today<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join Hossein Raeesi, Carleton and uOttawa\u2019s first Scholar At Risk, and Alan Neal, host of CBC Radio\u2019s All in a Day, on Nov. 30 for a special presentation on the challenges of human rights defenders. After working for 20 years in Shiraz as a criminal and human rights lawyer, Raeesi moved to Canada in 2012 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"null"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40484,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17877\/revisions\/40484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}