Presented by the International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group, Amnesty International Canada, the Human Rights Research and Education Centre and the Centre for International Policy Studies at the University of Ottawa.

Keynote panel featuring:

Honorable Frank Iacobucci

Internal Inquiry into the Actions of Canadian Officials in Relation to Abdullah Almalki, Ahmad Abou-Elmaati and Muayyed Nureddin

Honorable John Major

Commission of Inquiry into the Investigation of the Bombing of Air India Flight 182

Honorable Dennis O’Connor

Commission of Inquiry into the Actions of Canadian Officials in Relation to Maher Arar

Other panels will discuss the personal dimension of national security-related human rights violations, challenges for the legal profession and ongoing concerns related to oversight of national security activities. The conference will also feature a morning panel with four leading journalists working at the forefront of national security and human rights in Canada over the past decade.

29 OCTOBER 2014

Conference 8:00 – 17:30

Wine and cheese 17:30 – 19:00

Tabaret 112, uOttawa, 75 Laurier avenue East, Ottawa

This event will be bilingual with simultaneous interpretation

Schedule and registration coming soon