This two and a half day event is co-sponsored by the International Law Research Program (ILRP) at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University and the Human Rights Research and Education Centre at the University of Ottawa, and will contribute positioning Canada as a global leader on resource extraction, gender and human rights. It will bring together industry and government representatives, civil society experts, an interdisciplinary group of scholars and students and other members of the public to consider law and policy options and reform based on ideas and questions that emerge from a two-day conference on resource extraction and the rights of women and girls that will be held at the University of Ottawa.
Participants will share their knowledge and research on this issue, as well as brainstorm about how to integrate a gender perspective into international and domestic laws, policies and standards that govern Canadian and global large-scale resource extraction companies. The intent is to ensure their practices respect the rights of, and, where possible, empower, women and girls.
Please note that the policy meeting on Day 3 will take place under the Chatham House Rule. Participants are not obliged to speak and there will be no attribution of any participant’s comments in any future report of the meeting.
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