SAR uOttawa Communications and News Releases
- In March 2020, SAR uOttawa and the University of Ottawa launched a fundraising campaign. By contributing to the Scholars at Risk Program Fund, you will help advance freedom of thought, as well as allow researchers to contribute their knowledge to the world.
- Viviana Fernandez Attended the 31st Anniversary of the Magna Carta Universitatum
- Viviana Fernandez Represented uOttawa at the 2019 German Forum for Academic Freedom
- Scholars at Risk Speaks at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and Launches the Americas Academic Freedom Hub
- Scholars Are at Risk All Around the World - and Canada Needs to Lead
- Salvador Herencia, HRREC Student Member and Director of the Human Rights Clinic, Represented the Centre in Vancouver
- Scholars at Risk speaks at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and launches the Americas Academic Freedom Hub
- Opinion: Scholars are at risk all around the world – and Canada needs to lead - by Melanie Adrian, Viviana Fernandez, Nandini Ramanujam and Anneke Smit, published in the Globe and Mail (January 2019)
- Constitutional Court of Colombia Reinstates Professor Fired for Denouncing Cases of Sexual Harassment in Campus
- Amicus Curiae on Academic Freedom Submitted to the Colombian Constitutional Court
- uOttawa to Contribute to the Scholars at Risk Academic Monitoring Project
- "Free to Think" Report on Academic Freedom Released by Scholars at Risk
- Blog by Isaac Nahon-Serfaty: Canada Must Show Venezuela's Criminal Regime What We Stand For
- Scholars at Risk Network (SAR) Recognized at the Canadian Parliament and Featured in Panel on Academic Freedom at uOttawa
- Free to Think 2017 is the third installment in SAR’s reporting of attacks on higher education communities, summarizing 12 months of data collected by SAR's Academic Freedom Monitoring Project (September 2017)
- SAR Ottawa Annual Report 2016 (September 2016)
- In June 2015, SAR released the first Free to Think, a report of their Academic Freedom Monitoring Project which documented attacks on higher education communities in 65 countries from January 2011 to May 2015.The network has since released Free to Think 2016 (June 2016)
- Carleton Students Receive Courage to Think Defender Award on Behalf of Detained Egyptians (June 2016)
- Scholars at Risk Program Honoured in House of Commons (December 10, 2015)
- Gary Anandasanagree MP's statement in Canadian Parliament for Human Rights Day (December 10, 2015)
- An article on Hossein Raeesi in the uOttawa Fulcrum (September 17, 2015)
- L'Heure de Pointe Toronto - Ici Radio-Canada (Radio Show): Interview with HRREC Director John Packer about the SAR Program at uOttawa and Carleton University - in French only (August 24, 2015)
- Embassy News : Iranian human rights lawyer picked as first Scholar at Risk in Ottawa (August 19, 2015)
- Carleton Newsroom: Carleton and uOttawa welcome Hossein Raeesi as part of the Scholars at Risk Network (August 19, 2015)
- uOttawa Media Release: Carleton University and uOttawa welcome Hossein Raeesi as part of the Scholars at Risk Network (August 19, 2015)
- The Scholars at Risk (SAR) Network released the report “Free to Think” (June 23, 2015)
- Scholars-at-risk program comes to Carleton and U of Ottawa (March 25, 2015)
- Interview with Radio-Canada (March 7, 2015)
- Je Suis Scholar: Scholars at Risk Program Panel Discussion (February 26, 2015)
- Carleton Partners with the University of Ottawa to Join Scholars at Risk Network (September 18, 2014)
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