World VIU Days VIUFA HRISC Flower Power Solidarity Table
Thursday, November 28 from 10-12pm, upper cafeteria
Drop by to receive the gift of a flower, a symbol of world peace, connect about UN Human Rights Day events and share your thoughts on how we can strive towards a world without war.
Sponsored by the Vancouver Island University Faculty Association’s Human Rights and International Solidarity Committee.
The Right to Education, with international scholar Winnifred Namazzi (Kabale University, Uganda)
Tuesday, December 3 from 4-6pm, bldg 210 rm 270
Winnifred Namazzi is a visiting international scholar from Kabale University, Uganda. She is researching how to implement culturally-relevant education for Indigenous Batwa communities. Learn about Winnifred’s study, and how it will build access to diverse ways of knowing. Special guests will join in a moderated conversation about the articles on education in the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights (Article 26) and Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (Article 14).
United Nations Human Rights Day
Tuesday, December 10 from 4-6pm, bldg 210 rm 270
All are welcome to listen and learn, to consider and connect on the topic of Article 19 in the UN Declaration of Human Rights: Freedom of Thought and Expression.
Article 19: Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
We’ll feature the CBC Ideas podcast “Brave New Worlds: The Rights to Free Thought and Free Expression”, enjoy good company, light refreshments and a moderated discussion on the context and examples described in this episode that examines the rights to free thought and free expression, especially in our era when freedom of opinion is under great threat. Guests in this episode include James Turk, director of the Centre for Free Expression at Toronto Metropolitan University, Noura Al-Jizawi, senior researcher at the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, and Kagiso Lesego Molope, an Indigenous South African novelist and playwright of the San people.