Human Rights Talks

Bessma Momani : the murder Jamal Khashoggi and threats against journalists

Bessma Momani is Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Waterloo. She is also Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation. In this interview, Bessma speaks about freedom of the press, the Middle East and the murder of Jamal Khashoggi

 

 

 

 

 

Jennifer Welsh, Special Adviser to the UN Secretary General on the R2P

Welsh is the incoming Canada 150 Research Chair in Global Governance and Security at McGill University. From 2013-2016, she served as the Special Adviser to the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, on the Responsibility to Protect. She spoke to MIGS about the current state of mass atrocity prevention, conflict and much more.

 

 

 

 

 

Jeremy Kinsman, Canadian former career diplomat, talking Russia and China

Jeremy Kinsman is Canadian former career diplomat. He was the Canadian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom and the Canadian Ambassador to the European Union. He also served as a Canadian Ambassador for 15 years, in Moscow and in Rome. In this podcast, he talks to MIGS about his career, Russia and China.

 

 

 

 

 

Adama Dieng, UNSG Special Adviser for the Prevention of Genocide

Adama Dieng is the UN Secretary-General's Special Adviser for the Prevention of Genocide and former board member of the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance and a former registrar of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. He spoke to MIGS about the current challenges to genocide and mass atrocity prevention.

 

 

 

 

RightsCity: Lt-Gen.Romeo Dallaire: Global Human Rights Leader

As part of its #RightsCity initiative, the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies is launching a new podcast featuring thought leaders from Canada and abroad. The aim is to gain insights into pressing human rights issues and to re-energize the international human rights community during a time of great upheaval.

Roméo Dallaire is a celebrated advocate for human rights, especially in regards to child soldiers, veterans, and the prevention of mass atrocities, General Dallaire is also a respected government and UN advisor and former Canadian Senator. He is the founder of the Roméo Dallaire Child Soldiers Initiative, a global partnership with the mission to end the recruitment and use of child soldiers, and the Distinguished Senior Fellow at MIGS.

Most notably, General Dallaire was appointed Force Commander of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda prior to and during the 1994 genocide