BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260531T085712EDT-7515Uk9466@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20260531T125712Z DESCRIPTION:Click on the two small poster icons above to expand them and se e more of our speakers.\n\nPlease register for this event by chrlp.law [at ] mcgill.ca (emailing the Centre here). Please also note that all presenta tions will be delivered in English.\n\nThe event is co-sponsored by the Ce ntre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism and the Law Commission of Canada .\n\n\nCases of forced marriage (FM) in Canada occur across religions\, et hnicities\, and races\, and can be traced back to Confederation. Their pre valence gained public attention in 2008 following several high-profile cas es and advocacy work done by the South Asian Legal Clinic of Ontario. In 2 015 Canada grouped FM\, polygamy\, and so-called “honour killings” under t he Zero Tolerance for Barbaric Cultural Practices Act. The law added new c riminal offences to the Criminal Code\, including forced marriage\, marria ge under the age of 16\, as well as the offence of officiating or solemniz ing a marriage knowing that it is “in contravention of federal law.” Along side amendments that centre on criminal sanctions and immigration control\ , the Civil Marriage Act was also amended to set\, for the first time\, a national minimum age for marriage (of 16 years) and a legal requirement of “free and enlightened consent of two persons to be the spouse of each oth er.”\n\nThe 2015 legislation was part of a series of laws that marked Cana da’s move towards ‘crimigration’ similarly to other Global North states. N ot only that identifying the source of FM\, polygamy\, or femicide outside the country is factually incorrect\, it legitimizes an approach that trea ts them as “immigrants’ problems” and encourages policies that either focu s on policing newcomers or turn a blind eye\, while the survivor’s interes ts and needs are not at the centre of concern. In 2018\, under the Liberal government\, the Act lost its divisive ‘Zero Tolerance’ title\, but other wise the law remained intact.\n\nA decade later the public interest in the phenomena that the law purported to prevent has subsided. Meanwhile\, wom en and girls continue to be forced into marriage and femicide remains prev alent. The symposium brings together participants from community and women ’s organizations\, government agencies\, and the academia to share critica l perspectives and explore new directions and possibilities for addressing gendered violence and preventing intergenerational harm – inspired by Can ada’s history\, diverse legal traditions\, and unique pluralism in the dom ain of marriage laws.\n\n\nPreliminary Program:\n\n\n Gathering and Refresh ments - 8:30-9:00\n\n \n  \n \n\n Opening Remarks - 9:00-9:30\n\n \n Shauna Van Praagh\, President\, the Law Commission of Canada\n\n Nandini Ramanujam\, D irector of Human Rights Programs\, CHRLP\n \n\n Crimigration\, Marginalizati on\, and Resistance - 9:30-11:30\n\n \n Chair: Lynda Clarke\, Concordia Univ ersity\, Department of Religions and Cultures\n\n Deepa Mattoo\, Chief Exec utive Officer of YWCA Toronto and Miriam Zucker\, Թ Law – A Decade Si nce the Zero Tolerance Act: Recontextualizing Forced Marriage as a Form of Coercive Control and Reinvigorating Alternatives to Penal Approaches\n\n D r. Salina Abji\, Sociologist & Research Consultant – “Honour”-Based Violen ce and the Politics of Culture in Canada\n\n Hoori Hamboyan\, Senior Adviso r\, Office of the Federal Ombudsperson for Victims of Crime – Access to Ju stice for Survivors of Gender-Based Violence\n\n Q & A\n \n\n Lunch Break - 1 1:30-12:30\n\n \n  \n \n\n Building Bridges and Models of Shared Responsibilit y - 12:30-2:15\n\n \n **Content warning** Please note that this session incl udes some sensitive or triggering content\n\n Chair: Miriam Zucker\, SSHRC Post Doctoral Fellow\, Թ Faculty of Law\n\n 12:30-12:45 – O verview of resources for sexual violence response and support at the Stude nt Wellness Hub by Gabrielle Petrucci\, Local Wellness Advisor - Law\n\n 12 :30-1:00 – Rev. Dr. Anne Marie Hunter\, Senior Advisor\, Safe Havens Inter faith Partnership Against Domestic Violence and Elder Abuse – Where Faith and Safety Meet: Working with Faith and Spiritual Communities to Increase Safety and Access to Services\n\n 1:00-2:00 – Workshop on restorative & tra nsformative justice models and DEI trauma-informed lawyering \n\n Lead part icipants: \n\n Nneka MacGregor\, Co-founder and Executive Director of the W omen’s Centre for Social Justice\n\n Kate Crozier\, Executive Director of C ommunity Justice Initiatives\n\n Sabha Sajjad-Hazai\, Senior family law law yer in private practice and former legal counsel and program lead for the Canadian Muslim Women’s Legal Centre Project\n \n\n Coffee Break - 2:15-2:30 \n\n \n  \n \n\n Legal Pluralism and Dialogue: Beyond the Public/Private Divid e - 2:30-4:15\n\n \n Chair: Michel Morin\, Université de Montréal Faculty of Law\n\n Natasha Bakht\, University of Ottawa Faculty of Law – Religious Ba rriers\, Legal Pluralism\, and Equality: Rethinking State Responses to “Cu ltural Violence”\n\n Marie Manikis\, Թ Faculty of Law - Ret hinking Prosecutorial Discretion and State Accountability in the Criminal Legal Process\n\n Kirsten Anker\, Թ Faculty of Law – Indige nous peace-making: dispute resolution that confounds the public/private di vide\n\n Q & A\n \n\n Concluding Remarks - 4:15-4:30\n\n \n Miriam Zucker\, SSH RC Post Doctoral Fellow\, Թ Faculty of Law\n \n\n\n \n\n\nS peaker Biographies:\n\n\n Lynda Clarke\, Concordia University\, Department of Religions and Cultures\n\n \n Professor Lynda Clarke joined the Departmen t of Religions and Cultures at Concordia University after having held posi tions in the Department of Religion at Bard College and the Department of Asian and Middle East Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Her resea rch interests include Shiism\, law and gender\, and Islam in the West\, in connection with which she has engaged with issues related to the use of M uslim law in Canada.\n \n\n Miriam Zucker\, SSHRC Post Doctoral Fellow\, McG ill University Faculty of Law\n\n \n Dr. Miriam Zucker received her SJD from the University of Toronto and holds a Master of Laws degree (LLM\, Public and International Law specialization) and a Bachelor of Laws degree (LLB) . Her work on the intersections of gendered violence and state violence am ong Indigenous and racialized communities has been disseminated through pu blic presentations and publications in scholarly journals and has been rec ognized with the Audre Rapoport Prize for Scholarship on Gender and Human Rights. Her current research\, supported by the Social Sciences and Humani ties Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)\, examines Canada’s legal response to forced marriage under the Zero Tolerance for Barbaric Cultural Practic es Act (2015) and its impact on survivors\, individuals at risk\, and thei r families.\n \n\n Deepa Mattoo\, Chief Executive Officer of YWCA Toronto\n \n \n Deepa Mattoo is an award-winning lawyer\, intersectional feminist\, an d social justice advocate who currently serves as the Chief Executive Offi cer of YWCA Toronto. With a career spanning over 28 years\, her work is de fined by a commitment to advancing equity\, anti-oppression\, and the righ ts of survivors of gender-based violence.\n \n\n Dr. Salina Abji\, Sociologi st & Research Consultant \n\n \n Salina Abji has a Ph.D. in Sociology from t he University of Toronto and a Master’s degree (MSt.) in Women’s Studies f rom Oxford University. Her SSHRC-funded postdoctoral fellowship at Carleto n University examined Canada's immigration detention system\, focusing on experiences of detention and anti-border activism among GBV survivors. She has published research on citizenship and migration\, gender-based violen ce\, and social justice activism in scholarly journals like Citizenship St udies\, Signs\, Social Politics\, and Studies in Social Justice. As a rese arch and evaluation consultant\, Salina has worked with national and provi ncial settlement and GBV organizations to build capacity for trauma-inform ed\, intersectional\, and culturally-responsive approaches to service prov ision. In 2021\, she was awarded a Trailblazers in Social Justice award fr om the South Asian Legal Clinic of Ontario (SALCO) for her research and ac tivism addressing structural racism and gender-based violence affecting On tario’s diverse South Asian communities.\n \n\n Hoori Hamboyan\, Senior Advi sor\, Office of the Federal Ombudsperson for Victims of Crime\n\n \n Hoori H amboyan has a background in social work and law and is currently a senior advisor at the Office of the Federal Ombudsperson for Victims of Crime. Sh e was the lead investigator for the office’s systemic investigation on the experiences of survivors of sexual violence and the criminal justice syst em. Prior to working with the OFOVC\, she was chair of the federal interde partmental working group on harmful practices for many years. Before joini ng the federal civil service\, she was a child protection social worker an d worked in grassroots refugee rights advocacy and counselling with surviv ors of sexual violence and armed conflict.\n \n\n Rev. Dr. Anne Marie Hunter \, Senior Advisor\, Safe Havens Interfaith Partnership Against Domestic Vi olence and Elder Abuse\n\n \n Anne Marie Hunter is an ordained United Method ist pastor who has worked extensively in the field of domestic violence an d elder abuse since 1984. Hunter holds a Master of Divinity from Harvard D ivinity School and a Ph.D. in Religion and Society from Drew University. H unter has worked for two domestic violence service agencies and served as the pastor of East Saugus United Methodist Church in Massachusetts. In 199 1\, Hunter and a circle of friends founded Safe Havens Interfaith Partners hip Against Domestic Violence and Elder Abuse\, a religiously diverse nonp rofit organization that works locally and nationally to strengthen partner ships between diverse faith communities and frontline workers to provide s upport services to domestic and sexual violence survivors.\n \n\n Nneka MacG regor\, Co-founder and Executive Director of the Women’s Centre for Social Justice\n\n \n Nneka MacGregor\, LL.B. is co-founder and Executive Director of the Women’s Centre for Social Justice (WomenatthecentrE). A Black Inte rsectional abolitionist feminist\, international speaker\, and Transformat ive Accountability/Justice practitioner\, Nneka is an expert advisory pane l member of the Canadian Femicide Observatory for Justice and Accountabili ty and founder of the Black Femicide Canada Council. Her research focuses on sexual violence\, and the intersection of strangulation\, Traumatic Bra in Injury and GBV. She received the 2019 PINK Concussions Award and the 20 20 YWCA Women of Distinction Social Justice Award and one of two 2024 Acti vists-in-Residence (AiR) at the University of Guelph\, in Ontario\, Canada .\n \n\n Kate Crozier\, Executive Director of Community Justice Initiatives (CJI)\n\n \n Prior to working at CJI\, Kate spent most of her career working with women impacted by violence. Along the way she had the opportunity to work with criminalized youth\, unhoused women\, as well as men impacted b y sexual harm – all of which helped her understand how people whose needs are not met often become criminalized. Kate has spent 20 years working to address the impacts of gender-based violence\, through a mix of feminist a nti-violence and restorative justice work. Both of these fields have fed h er interest in tackling both personal and systemic issues through non-carc eral pathways. Through her different roles in the CJI Kate has come to hig hly value the de-professionalization of restorative justice work\, and she is proud of the CJI's legacy of equipping community members to facilitate mediations\, groups\, and circles.\n \n\n Sabha Sajjad-Hazai\, senior famil y law lawyer in private practice \n\n \n Sabha Sajjad-Hazai launched Canada’ s first faith-based legal clinic pilot project supporting survivors of gen der-based violence in diverse Muslim communities navigating the family law system in Ontario. She has spent more than two decades advancing access t o justice initiatives focused on Muslim women’s legal rights in Canada. Sh e frequently speaks and teaches on the future of law\, exploring how techn ology and artificial intelligence can expand access to legal services for underserved communities. She is a faculty member with The Advocates’ Socie ty and a deputy judge in Central West Region Ontario. She also contributes to professional development programming through the Law Society of Ontari o and mentors emerging lawyers at Toronto Metropolitan University Lincoln Alexander School of Law.\n \n\n Michel Morin\, Université de Montréal Facult y of Law\n\n \n Michel Morin is a Full Professor at the Faculty of Law of th e Université de Montréal. His research focuses on Comparative Legal Histor y of public and private law and the evolution of Aboriginal Peoples’ right s. His book\, co-authored with Arnaud Decroix and David Gilles 'Les tribun aux et l'arbitrage en Nouvelle-France et au Québec de 1740 à 1784' (Courts and Arbitration in New France and Quebec\, 1740-1784)\, was awarded the R odolphe Fournier 2013 prize (ex aequo) by the Fédération des sociétés d'hi stoire du Québec (Federation of Historical Societies of Quebec) and the Ch amber of Notaries. In 2023\, Professor Morin was elected as a Fellow of th e Royal Society of Canada.\n \n\n Natasha Bakht\, University of Ottawa Facul ty of Law\n\n \n Natasha Bakht is a professor in the Faculty of Law at the U niversity of Ottawa whose research focuses on the intersection of religiou s freedom and women’s equality. She has written extensively in the area of religious arbitration. Her research on the niqab analyzes the unwarranted popular panic concerning Muslim women who cover their faces and explores systemic barriers to inclusion perpetuated by Canada’s legal and political system. Her book In Your Face: Law Justice and Niqab-Wearing Women in Can ada was listed in the Hill Times 100 Best Books of 2020 and received the 2 020-2021 Huguenot Society of Canada Award. Prof Bakht is the President of the Canadian Association for the Study of Islam and Muslims. She is also a n award-winning dancer and choreographer\, trained in Bharata Natyam and s pecializing in Indian contemporary dance.\n \n\n Marie Manikis\, Թ Univ ersity Faculty of Law\n\n \n Marie Manikis is an Associate Professor and Wil liam Dawson Chair at the Faculty of Law\, Թ. She is also a Research Associate at the Centre for Criminology\, University of Oxford a nd at the International Centre for Comparative Criminology\, University of Montreal. Her research is interdisciplinary and comparative and analyses prosecutorial discretion\, state accountability\, as well as victim and co mmunity participation across criminal legal processes. She is the author o f Victims as Agents of State Accountability (Oxford University Press\, 202 6) and has published in leading journals. Her award-winning scholarship ha s been cited by several courts\, and she regularly advises governmental an d non-governmental bodies in Canada and the United Kingdom.\n \n\n Kirsten A nker\, Թ Faculty of Law\n\n \n Kirsten Anker is Associate Pr ofessor at Թ Faculty of Law\, teaching property\, equity & trusts\, l egal theory and Aboriginal law/Indigenous legal traditions. She has publis hed research on a legal pluralist framework for the co-existence of state and Indigenous legal orders\, the integration of Indigenous legal traditio ns in formal legal education\, and ecological jurisprudence.\n \n\n\n \n DTSTART:20260608T123000Z DTEND:20260608T203000Z LOCATION:Room 101\, Chancellor Day Hall\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1W9\, 36 44 rue Peel SUMMARY:What Have We Learned a Decade Since the Zero Tolerance Act? 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