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Sir Wilfred Laurier"For here in Canada, I want the marble to remain the marble; the granite to remain the granite; the oak to remain the oak; and out of these elements, I would build a nation great among the nations of the world.".. Sir Wilfred Laurier

Human Rights Lecture

2010 UBC-Laurier Human Rights Lecture

Sima Samar - UBC Human Rights Lecture

Keynote Speaker: Sima Samar
UBC Chan Centre

“How the West can support Human Rights in other parts of the world."

About the speaker:
Afghan physician Sima Samar (born 1957) has been internationally recognized for her human rights activism, especially on behalf of Afghan women, when she was appointed one of five deputy prime ministers in Afghanistan's new government in December of 2001.
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2011 Vancouver Human Rights Lecture

Ethan Zuckerman

The Laurier Institution is proud present 2011 Vancouver Human Rights Lecture, in partnership with Yahoo!, UBC Continuing Studies and CBC. We are happy to welcome Ethan Zuckerman whose lecture is titled "Cute Cats and the Arab Spring: when social media meet social change".
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How UBC Scholars are Responding to Human Rights Issues Within and Beyond the West

UBCThursday, November 18, 2010
7:00 - 9:00pm
UBC Robson Square

Globalisation, transnationalism, and international human rights are now buzz words for the recognition of an increasingly complex set of political, economic and social frameworks which shape the ways in which countries around the world conceptualize justice and injustices and act upon them in diverse institutional environments.

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