Passed away peacefully at the Riverview Health Centre in the arms of his anam cara, Lesley, and with his best friend, Griff, by his side.

Schedule:
Tuesday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 4:15 p.m.
Wednesday and Thursday from 6 - 8:30 p.m.

HRGS-2650 & HRGS-3650

This course will focus on providing students with comprehensive views of the causes and discourses of terrorism within the Muslim context, and their implications to world peace. The course will provide balanced perspectives on political, cultural, social and religious issues. Finally the course will explore approaches to address those issues, with an emphasis on multilateral approaches, and ones that may lead to the peaceful transformation of the terrorism trend in the Muslim world. The course will be taught by Professor Amr Abdalla, the Vice Rector of the University for Peace in Costa Rica, who is a former prosecuting attorney from Egypt with extensive expertise and experience on Islamic Jihad and other terrorist groups.

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Current students can register via WebAdvisor. For more information contact global.college@uwinnipeg.ca

Migration and Development in the Philippines, 1960-2010
August 3-13, 2010
Guest Professor: Anthony Tujan Jr. ,
Institute for Political Economy, the Philippines

MULT-1100 & MULT-2100

This course on Migration and Development in the Philippines will examine how Philippine labour migration came to be institutionalized as the country's primary economic development strategy. As a joint effort with Filipino-Manitoban members of Aksyon Ng Ating Kabataan (ANAK) Inc. - ANAK - in acknowledgment of the 50 years of immigration to Manitoba from the Philippines, this course is being hosted by the Global College Institute for Human Rights and Global Studies, directed by Prof. Kim Sibanda, with guest instructor Antonio Tujan Jr., from the Institute for Political Economy in the Philippines, who will teach this course as an exploration of the political, economic, and social impact of labour migration in the Philippines especially in terms of its challenges to human rights and development in the past fifty years.

* Press Release
* Filipino Community Celebrates 50 Years of Being in Manitoba - MB Legislature (Hansard)

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Current students can register via WebAdvisor. For more information contact global.college@uwinnipeg.ca

Global Citizens: Manitobans Working Together for a Better World celebrates extraordinary Manitobans who are making a difference overseas and explores Manitoba’s role in the global community. It features photographs and stories from projects that are saving and improving lives in the developing world. Since 2004, 27,000 lives have been saved by malaria prevention mosquito nets in Tanzania. In Haiti, thousands are treated and cured each year for Tuberculosis and other serious diseases at Grace Children’s Hospital. Much of this is due to the work of extraordinary Manitobans.

Established in 2005 as a result of a generous gift made to The University of Winnipeg Global College by Dr. Douglas W. Leatherdale, the Internships are designed to support students who wish to augment their degree programs with credits they obtain through international studies in Human Rights and Global Studies, or any of the major areas represented by the Institutes of the Global College. The Internships are available to University of Winnipeg students wishing to study abroad and also are available to international students wishing to pursue their studies at The University of Winnipeg. The Internships will normally be granted for study periods of six weeks to three months.

The number and value of internships vary, up to a maximum of $5,000 each.

Please see the application form for complete eligibility and application criteria:
http://www.uwinnipeg.ca/index/gc-scholarsps-grants#leatherdale

Application deadline: March 22, 2010

For more information contact the Global College at 988-7105 or global.college@uwinnipeg.ca

17 November 2009 – The Security Council today called on United Nations missions in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Central African Republic (CAR) and Sudan to coordinate strategies to protect civilians from the rebel Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), which has killed, kidnapped and displaced thousands of people.

In a press statement read out by Ambassador Thomas Mayr-Harting of Austria, which holds the monthly presidency for November, the 15-member body “expressed deep concern at the direct and serious threat the activities of the LRA pose to the civilian population, the conduct of humanitarian operations and regional stability.”

Learn how to strengthen your organization through:

· Effective proposal writing;
· Quality evaluation tools;
· Strategic plans, and;
· Strong Human Resources practice and policy.

Dates are November 3, November 17, December 1, and December 8.

All workshops run from 1-4pm, and are located in the Buchwald Room; 2nd Floor, Millennium Library

Participants who attend and complete three workshops will receive a Certificate of Achievement

Workplace Human Rights Complaints: Myths, Fears and Realities (NEW)

This half-day workshop helps employers determine whether a workplace issue raises aspects of human rights law and when an investigation into the issue may be required. What an employer can expect if the Commission becomes involved in the workplace issue will also be discussed.

Human Rights in the Workplace

This half day interactive workshop is specifically tailored for employers and human resource professionals; Human Rights Investigators clarify a variety of workplace human rights topics and explain how the Commission processes complaints; Defines discrimination and harassment and the meaning behind reasonable accommodation under The Code; Reveals a proactive approach to pre-employment inquiries and writing workplace policies

Reasonable Accommodation in the Workplace

This half day workshop offers practical advice using real examples to those responsible for dealing with accommodation workplace issues, either for an employer or union; The key legal elements of the duty to accommodate and how to respond to requests for accommodation will be discussed

Harassment in the Workplace

This half day workshop will be of interest to those requiring a more in-depth discussion of harassment; Develop and implement anti-harassment policies; Know how to appropriately respond to a harassment complaint from an employee Human Rights Investigators explain what harassment is under The Code, why anti-harassment policies are needed and what they should include.

How to Investigate a Human Rights Complaint

This full day workshop assists supervisors and human resource professionals who are frequently confronted with a human rights complaint in their workplace; Participants will work through sample case scenarios

Recent Developments in Human Rights Law

This workshop will be of interest to lawyers, law students, human resource professionals, and anyone who wishes to develop a better understanding of human rights legislation and its impact; Considers the effect of recent court and tribunal decisions dealing with equality and human rights law; Identifies emerging issues

Full details including dates and fees at: http://www.gov.mb.ca/hrc/english/education-09-10.html

The Canadian Red Cross Humanitarian Issues Program has volunteer opportunities in the following areas:

1. Even Wars Have Limits Working Group
2. Malaria Bites Working Group
3. Humanitarian Issues Working Group

Tuesday, September 29, 2009
7:30 PM
Uof W Room 3M69 (3rd Floor Manitoba Hall off Balmoral)

Free Admission
Light Refrshments

Sponsored by:
Manitoba Interfaith Council
The University of Winnipeg Global College & Faculty of Theology

"In October of 2008, the Canadian Human Rights Commission ordered a tribunal to determine whether or not discrimination had occurred pursuant to the Canadian Human Rights Act. The tribunal is similar to a court process with all evidence taken under oath. The AFN and the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society will present the case supporting allegation that the Canadian Government is discriminating against First Nations children and then the federal government will respond. The Tribunal will then decide if discrimination happened or not. If it did happen, then the Tribunal can order a remedy to the discrimination. The tribunal is open to the public."

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"The Open Society Justice Initiative is involved in both building capacity and developing pilot programs through the use of community-based advocates and paralegals in Sierra Leone, Ukraine, and Indonesia. The pilot programs, which combine education with grassroots tools to provide concrete solutions to instances of injustice, help give poor people some measure of control over their lives."

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A free writing group for newcomers to Canada. The group will discuss access to writing and publishing resources, provide an opportunity for networking, and help you build your writing, editing and storytelling skills. Sessions will be moderated by Janine LeGal, writer and human rights activist. Basic English writing skills necessary. This program is not an English language course. It is intended as a means to develop creative writing skills through practice.

Register by calling 986-6779.

Only 9% of all Canadians were considered poor in 2007. It was the lowest rate of low income in 30 years. But that was before the recession hit last fall. We don’t yet have income data for 2008, but, if past experience is anything to go by, poverty rates will go up again as declining economic growth shows up in the numbers. And that’s bad news for women whose high rates of poverty remain unaddressed.

Women on their own are the poorest of the poor, especially women raising children in lone-parent families, who are almost five times more likely to be poor than those in two-parent families. Yet their plight has been virtually ignored by the policy-makers. Older women on their own are also13 times more likely to be poor than seniors living in families, with more than 14% of them having had low incomes in 2007. That these two groups of women had such high rates of poverty, at a time when poverty rates for others had dropped to relatively low levels, must surely be a cause for serious concern.

Women are also among the poorest of the poor within Canada’s most vulnerable populations: Aboriginal people, people from racialized communities, recent immigrants (many of whom are also from racialized communities), and persons with disabilities. As one report puts it, “Gender creates a cleavage of vulnerability that cuts across all other groups.”