Annual Conference 2009: Fighting for Rights & Fighting the Right

Annual Conference 2009: Fighting for Rights & Fighting the Right

Saturday, February 28 @ 9am - 5.30pm
Hart House at U of T, 7 Hart House Circle
INFO: lawunionconference@gmail.com; www.lawunion.ca

Registration fee: full conference: $45 ($15 for students) or PWYC single session: $15 ($5 for students) or PWYC

KEYNOTE: Dying for Water

IS THE PUBLIC'S RIGHT TO WATER SLIPPING THROUGH OUR FINGERS? Tony Clarke, Founder and Executive Director of Polaris Institute, Ottawa, and co-author of Blue Gold: the Fight to Stop the Theft of the World's Water

Panels:

ABORIGINAL: Fulfilling the Promise of the Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Mission Impossible?

CORPORATIONS: Corporate Social Responsibility: An Oxymoron?

CRIMINAL LAW: Sex, Silence and Crime: Prosecuting People Living with HIV/AIDS for Not Disclosing

ENVIRONMENT: Wind Power: Green Energy or Greenwashing? Ontario: How's the Water?

CHARTER OF RIGHTS: The Homeless Have Rights! Implications of Recent Court Victories for Rights to Housing

IMMIGRATION: Conservative Attacks on Immigrants' Rights

INTERNATIONAL TRADE & HUMAN RIGHTS: Free Trade with Colombia: Free of guilt?

LABOUR: Justice for Migrant Workers: Legal and Activist Strategies

U.S. MILITARY TRIALS: Omar Khadr: Child Soldier, Torture Victim, Alleged Terrorist, Legal Anomaly