This book is a compendium of emergent global Human Rights Scholarship offering current ruminations on justice, indigeneity, gender, security, and human rights. This edited collection examines Access to Justice, Allyship and Equality, Human Rights and Social Justice, the Rights of Indigenous People, Indigenous Rights and the University, Transgender Healthcare, Femicide, Women Workers, Extremism and Misogyny, Human Rights and Aging, cyberwarfare, climate change.
Chapter 1: Introduction.- Part I: Human Rights and Justice.- Chapter 2:
Access to Justice.- Chapter 3: Allyship and Equality in Youth Organizations:
A Case Study of HOBY Canada.- Chapter 4: Teaching Human Rights and Social
Justice.- Chapter 5: Are Human Rights Universal?.- Part II:
Indigeneity.- Chapter 6: The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of
Indigenous People: A Prototype for Reconciliation?.- Chapter 7: Indigenous
Rights and the University.- Part III: Gender.- Chapter 8: Transgender
Healthcare in Canada.- Chapter 9: Femicide in Mexico.- Chapter 10: Women
Workers in the Ready-made Garment Industry in Bangladesh.- Chapter 11:
Extremism, Terrorism and Misogyny.- Part IV: Security.- Chapter 12: Hope with
Charity: Human Rights, the Law, and Aging.- Chapter 13: Human Security and
the Digital Threat: Russia and Ukraine.- Chapter 14: Protecting Students:
Bullying and School.- Chapter 15:Climate Change: Environmental Justice, Human
Rights, & Peaceful Practices.- Chapter 16: Conclusion: Finding Hope through
Human Rights Research.
Dr. Laura Reimer was the inaugural Practicum and Professional Development Coordinator of Canadas first Master of Human Rights program and the Academic Program Development Director for the Faculty of Law at the University of Manitoba.
Dr. Katerina Standish is a Senior Lecturer at the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Otago, New Zealand and instructor of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Manitoba, Canada.