The “us versus them” rhetoric increasingly employed by politicians is endangering human rights around the world. What are some of the major human rights struggles of our times, and what we can do about them?
=0D=0A=Payam Akhavan – renowned human rights scholar, former UN prosecutor at The Hague, and 2017 CBC Massey Lecturer – has experienced the grim realities of genocide throughout his life. He joins the Salt Spring Forum for a powerful conversation about international human rights.
=0D=0A=A Professor of International Law at McGill University and a Member of the International Court of Arbitration, Akhavan previously taught at the universities of Yale, Toronto, Oxford, and Paris.
=0D=0A=Akhavan has served with the UN in conflict zones around the world and internationally as legal counsel. He also served as Chair of the Global Conference on Prevention of Genocide and founded the Iran Human Rights Documentation Centre.
=0D=0A=The companion book to Akhavan’s 2017 Massey Lectures, In Search of a Better World: A Human Rights Odyssey (House of Anansi Press) became the top selling non-fiction book in Canada. Copies will be on sale at the event.
=0D=0A=Tickets are available at ArtSpring – 250-537-2102 and www.tickets.artspring.ca – and at Salt Spring Books. $20 - General; $15 - 2018 Forum Members. Students and low-income residents email forum@saltspringforum.com.
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