Wings for Wisdom
Setting Free the Wisdom Confined in Copyrighted Works
In the great race between education and catastrophe, this would accelerate the education of concerned citizens in creating a just and sustainable world. Precedents exist for others to follow.
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Created: Oct 21, 2007
Updated: Nov 21, 2009
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Mandate
Furthering the discussion of the linkages between human rights, governance, legal reform and development;
Supporting national human rights institutions in Canada and Abroad;
Evaluating and working to improve domestic social justice institutions and programs;
Engaging in multidisciplinary research and education in the above areas
History
The Human Rights Research and Education Centre has been delivering an active and extensive program out of the University of Ottawa, Canada, since May 1981. The Centre was the brainchild of Canada's former Ambassador to the United Nations, the distinguished Yvon Beaulne. Supporting his proposal to the Rector was Gordon Fairweather, then the Chief Commissioner of the Canadian Human Rights Commission.
The Senate of the University responded to the challenge by creating the oldest national university-based human rights institute in Canada. Ottawa is a natural site for such an institute: in the nation's capital, at a university committed to bilingualism and associated with a law faculty that serves in both the Civil and Common law traditions.
The University of Ottawa has been Canada’s university: a reflection, an observatory and a catalyst of the Canadian experience in all its complexity and diversity. Our university is characterized by its unique history, its commitment to bilingualism, its location both in the heart of the national capital and at the juncture of French and English Canada, its special commitment to the promotion of French culture in Ontario and to multiculturalism. As a result and through the groundbreaking work of our community members, we are uniquely positioned among Canada's research-intensive institutions to give students a remarkable education, to enrich the intellectual and cultural life of Canada and to help the country achieve greater international prominence.
Furthering the discussion of the linkages between human rights, governance, legal reform and development;
Supporting national human rights institutions in Canada and Abroad;
Evaluating and working to improve domestic social justice institutions and programs;
Engaging in multidisciplinary research and education in the above areas
History
The Human Rights Research and Education Centre has been delivering an active and extensive program out of the University of Ottawa, Canada, since May 1981. The Centre was the brainchild of Canada's former Ambassador to the United Nations, the distinguished Yvon Beaulne. Supporting his proposal to the Rector was Gordon Fairweather, then the Chief Commissioner of the Canadian Human Rights Commission.
The Senate of the University responded to the challenge by creating the oldest national university-based human rights institute in Canada. Ottawa is a natural site for such an institute: in the nation's capital, at a university committed to bilingualism and associated with a law faculty that serves in both the Civil and Common law traditions.
The University of Ottawa has been Canada’s university: a reflection, an observatory and a catalyst of the Canadian experience in all its complexity and diversity. Our university is characterized by its unique history, its commitment to bilingualism, its location both in the heart of the national capital and at the juncture of French and English Canada, its special commitment to the promotion of French culture in Ontario and to multiculturalism. As a result and through the groundbreaking work of our community members, we are uniquely positioned among Canada's research-intensive institutions to give students a remarkable education, to enrich the intellectual and cultural life of Canada and to help the country achieve greater international prominence.