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EVENT: Canadian/Anglophone African Human Rights Engagements Conference | 8th to 10th of December 2016
Professor Obiora Okafor, the inaugural York Research Chair in International and Transnational Legal Studies at York University’s Osgoode Hall Law School is convening a ground breaking conference in the history of Canada-Anglophone cooperation in the arena of human rights. The interdisciplinary conference is entitled: “Canadian/Anglophone African Human Rights Engagements: A Critical Assessment of the Literature and a Research Agenda Conference”
The Conference will connect Canadian and Anglophone African scholars and practitioners whose work focuses to a significant degree on the Canadian/Anglophone Africa human rights engagements and allow them to closely debate the topic and test ideas. The event will bring together Canadian and Anglophone African scholars from Nigeria, Botswana, Kenya, Zambia, Rwanda, Uganda, South Africa, Tanzania, Ghana, United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.
Hosted by Osgoode Hall Law School in conjunction with Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime and Security and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, this conference will provide an opportunity for critical reflections, discussions, engagements and exchange of ideas over a large array of scholarly literature on the Canada-Anglophone human rights agenda. Its foremost goal will deepen an interdisciplinary, transnational, trans-occupational and public conversations and collaborations on this theme. Its other purpose will be to articulate and interrogate the obtaining status, attained achievements, problems encountered and prospects of the grand Canadian-Anglophone human rights project.
The Conference is convened with the assistance of Okey Williams Kalu and Jake Okechukwu Effoduh (PhD Candidate and LLM Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School respectively)
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EVENT PROGRAMME:
Thursday 8th December 2016
Venue: Faculty Common Room (Room 2027), Ignat Kaneff Building
8.30 am – 9.30 am Breakfast
Room 2027 Ignat Kaneff Building
9.30 am – 10.30 am Opening Remarks/Announcements
Professor Francois Tanguay-Renaud
Director of the Jack and Mae NATHANSON CENTRE on Transnational Human Rights, Crime and Security
Professor Obiora Okafor
Conference Convenor, Professor & York Research Chair in International and Transnational Legal Studies, Osgoode Hall Law School
Mr. Okey Kalu
Conference Coordinator, PhD Candidate, Osgoode Hall Law School
Session I: Canada in the African Human Rights World
10.30 am – 12.30pm Canada in Africa: An Overview of some Canadian Development Projects in West Africa (presentation via Skype)
Professor Olabisi Akinkugbe
Assistant Professor, University of New Brunswick
Threading a Fine Line: Canada and the Quest for Environmental Rights in Africa
Dr. Basil Ugochukwu
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Centre for International Governance Innovation
Discussants:
Dr. Nadege Compaore, SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Social Science, York University
Ms. Saratu Bissallah-Alao, Research Fellow, Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
12.30 pm – 2.30pm Lunch
Room 2027 Ignat Kaneff Building
2.30 pm – 4.30pm Session II: Canadian Anglophone African Engagements in the Human Rights and Health Area
Reproducing Women’s Health Rights: Canadian-African Human Rights Engagement, Indigeneity and the Spaces Beyond the (Norm Life) Cycle.
Professor Irehobhude Iyioha, PhD
Visiting Assistant Professor and Assistant Adjunct Professor, Faculties of Law and Medicine & Dentistry, University of Alberta.
Canadian/Anglophone African Human Rights Engagement: A Critical Assessment of the Literature on Health Rights
Mr. Uche Ngwaba
PhD Candidate in Health Law, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
4.30 pm – 5.30pm Session III: Concluding Discussions/Announcements
Professor Obiora Okafor
Conference Convenor, Professor & York Research Chair in International and Transnational Legal Studies, Osgoode Hall Law School
Mr. Okey Kalu
Conference Coordinator, PhD Candidate, Osgoode Hall Law School
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Friday, 9th December, 2016
Venue: Founders College, Assembly Hall
8.30 am – 9.30 am Breakfast
Founders College, Assembly Hall
9.30 am – 11.00 am Session IV: Nigeria
Human Rights Discourses in Nigeria Across Time: Trajectory, Successes and Potentials for Foreign Engagement
Dr. Solomon Ukhuegbe
Senior Lecturer, University of Benin, Nigeria
In Search of Accountability: A Critical Assessment of the Literature on the Immunity of State Officials in International Law for Human Rights Violations
Dr. Udoka Nwosu-Owie
Senior Lecturer, Baze University, Nigeria
Canadian-Nigerian Co-Operation in the Area of Anti-Corruption, 1999-2011: Rhetoric and Substance
Professor Paul Ocheje
Associate Professor, University of Windsor
Discussants:
Dr. Opeoluwa Badaru, Critical Research Laboratory in Law & Society, Osgoode Hall Law School
Ms. Rahina Zarma, PhD Candidate, Osgoode Hall Law School
11.00 am – 1.00 pm Session V – South Africa/Botswana
Evaluating Canadian/South African Collaborative Human Rights Initiatives
Dr. Moses Phooko
Senior Lecturer, College of Law, University of South Africa
Canadian/Botswanan Human Rights Engagements: A Critical Assessment of the Literature and a Research Agenda
Dr. Ramadi Dinokopila
Senior Lecturer, University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana
Discussants:
Ms. Halima Doma Kutigi, Lecturer, Nasarawa State University, Keffi, Nigeria
Ms. Nkechi Eneh, Justice Ministry, Nigeria
1.00 pm – 3.00 pm Lunch
Founders College, Assembly Hall
3:00 pm – 5.30 pm Session VI – Zambia/Uganda
Canadian/Zambian Human Rights Engagements: A Critical Assessment of the Literature and Research Agenda
Ms. Misozi Lwatula
Lecturer, School of Law, University of Zambia
Canadian/Ugandan Human Rights Engagements: A Critical Assessment of the Literature and Research Agenda
Dr. Zahara Nampewo
Senior Lecturer, School of Law in Makerere University.
Discussant:
Mr. Okey Kalu, Conference Coordinator, PhD Candidate, Osgoode Hall Law School
5.30pm – 6.00pm Session VII: Concluding Discussions/Announcements
Professor Obiora Okafor
Conference Convenor, Professor & York Research Chair in International and Transnational Legal Studies, Osgoode Hall Law School
Mr. Okey Kalu
Conference Coordinator, PhD Candidate, Osgoode Hall Law School
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Saturday 10th December 2016
Venue: Faculty Common Room (Room 2027), Ignat Kaneff Building
9.30 am – 10.30 am Breakfast
Room 2027 Ignat Kaneff Building
10.30 am – 12.30 am Session VIII – Ghana
Business & Human Rights in the Ghanaian Extractive Industry: The Quest for Corporate Accountability
Professor Uwafiokun Idemudia
Associate Professor, Department of Social Science, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, York University
&
Ms. Cynthia Kwakweyah
MA Candidate, Interdisciplinary Program at York University
A Critical Assessment of universalism, difference and cultural exceptionalism in Human Rights Discourse and Practice in Ghana
Professor Sylvia Bawa
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, York University
Discussant:
Professor Ibironke Odumosu-Ayanu, Associate Professor, College of Law, University of Saskatchewan
Professor Sirleaf, Matiangai, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Pittsburgh
12.30 pm – 2.30 pm Lunch
Room 2027 Ignat Kaneff Building
2.30 pm – 4.30 pm Session IX – Kenya/Tanzania
Canada’s Human Rights Moments in Kenya’s Constitutional Transformation AgendaProfessor Sylvia Kanga’ra
Professor of Law, University of Washington
Canada/Tanzanian Human Rights Engagements: A Critical Assessment of Literature and a Research Agenda
Ms. Julena Jumbe Gabagambi
PhD Candidate, Open University of Tanzania
Who Will Remember the Children? – The International Human Rights Movement and Juvenile Justice in Africa
Professor Faisal Bhabha
Associate Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School
&
Cristina Candea
JD/MA Philosophy, Law and Philosophy Candidate, Osgoode Hall Law School
Discussants:
Mr. Maxwell Miyawa, PhD Candidate, Osgoode Hall Law School
Mr. Jake Okechukwu Effoduh, LLM Candidate, Osgoode Hall Law School
4.30pm – 5.00pm Session X: Concluding Discussions/Announcements
Professor Obiora Okafor
Conference Convenor, Professor & York Research Chair in International and Transnational Legal Studies, Osgoode Hall Law School
Mr. Okey Kalu
Conference Coordinator, PhD Candidate, Osgoode Hall Law School
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