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Shauna Van Praagh, 笔谤茅蝉颈诲别苍迟别, Commission du droit du Canada

Nandini Ramanujam, Co-directrice,听Centre sur les droits de la personne et du pluralisme juridique

笔谤茅蝉颈诲别苍迟别: Lynda Clarke, Universit茅 Concordia, D茅partement des religions et des cultures

Deepa Mattoo, Directrice g茅n茅rale, YWCA Toronto et Miriam Zucker, CRSH Boursi猫re Postdoctorale, Facult茅 de droit de l'Universit茅 涩里番听鈥� A Decade Since the Zero Tolerance Act: Recontextualizing Forced Marriage as a Form of Coercive Control and Reinvigorating Alternatives to Penal Approaches

Dr. Salina Abji, Sociologue et consultante en recherche 鈥� 鈥淗onour鈥�-Based Violence and the Politics of Culture in Canada

Hoori Hamboyan, Conseill猫re principale, F茅d茅ration canadienne des organismes de victimes d'actes criminels 鈥� Access to Justice for Survivors of Gender-Based Violence

Q & R

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**Avertissement** Veuillez noter que cette session contient des 茅l茅ments pouvant heurter la sensibilit茅 de certains ou provoquer des r茅actions 茅motionnelles

笔谤茅蝉颈诲别苍迟别:听Miriam Zucker, CRSH Boursi猫re Postdoctorale, Facult茅 de droit de l'Universit茅 涩里番

12h30-12h45 鈥� Overview of resources for sexual violence response and support at the Student Wellness Hub par Gabrielle Petrucci, Conseilli猫re en bien-锚tre - Droit

12h30-13h00 鈥� R茅v. Dr. Anne Marie Hunter, Conseill猫re principale, Safe Havens Interfaith Partnership Against Domestic Violence and Elder Abuse 鈥� Where Faith and Safety Meet: Working with Faith and Spiritual Communities to Increase Safety and Access to Services

13h00-14h00 鈥� Workshop on restorative & transformative justice models and DEI trauma-informed lawyering

Principaux participants:

Nneka MacGregor, Co-fondatrice et directrice g茅n茅rale,听Women鈥檚 Centre for Social Justice

Kate Crozier, Directrice g茅n茅rale, Community Justice Initiatives

Sabha Sajjad-Hazai, Avocate en droit de famille seniore, cabinet priv茅 ;听ancienne conseill猫re juridique et responsable de programme, Canadian Muslim Women鈥檚 Legal Centre Project

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笔谤茅蝉颈诲别苍迟: Michel Morin, Facult茅 de droit de l'Universit茅 de Montr茅al听

Natasha Bakht, Facult茅 de droit de l'Universit茅 d'Ottawa 鈥� Religious Barriers, Legal Pluralism, and Equality: Rethinking State Responses to 鈥淐ultural Violence鈥�

Marie Manikis, Facult茅 de droit de l'Universit茅 涩里番听- Rethinking Prosecutorial Discretion and State Accountability in the Criminal Legal Process

Kirsten Anker, Facult茅 de droit de l'Universit茅听涩里番 鈥� Indigenous peace-making: dispute resolution that confounds the public/private divide

Q & R

Miriam Zucker, CRSH Boursi猫re Postdoctorale, Facult茅 de droit de l'Universit茅 涩里番

Professor Lynda Clarke joined the Department of Religions and Cultures at Concordia University after having held positions in the Department of Religion at Bard College and the Department of Asian and Middle East Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research 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 Muslim law in Canada.

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 among Indigenous and racialized communities has been disseminated through public presentations and publications in scholarly journals and has been recognized with the. Her current research, supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), examines Canada鈥檚 legal response to forced marriage under the Zero Tolerance for Barbaric Cultural Practices Act (2015) and its impact on survivors, individuals at risk, and their families.

Deepa Mattoo is an award-winning lawyer, intersectional feminist, and social justice advocate who currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer of YWCA Toronto. With a career spanning over 28 years, her work is defined by a commitment to advancing equity, anti-oppression, and the rights of survivors of gender-based violence.

Salina Abji has a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Toronto and a Master鈥檚 degree (MSt.) in Women鈥檚 Studies from Oxford University. Her SSHRC-funded postdoctoral fellowship at Carleton 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 violence, and social justice activism in scholarly journals like Citizenship Studies, Signs, Social Politics, and Studies in Social Justice. As a research and evaluation consultant, Salina has worked with national and provincial settlement and GBV organizations to build capacity for trauma-informed, intersectional, and culturally-responsive approaches to service provision. In 2021, she was awarded a Trailblazers in Social Justice award from the South Asian Legal Clinic of Ontario (SALCO) for her research and activism addressing structural racism and gender-based violence affecting Ontario鈥檚 diverse South Asian communities.

Hoori Hamboyan 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. She was the lead investigator for the office鈥檚 systemic investigation on the experiences of survivors of sexual violence and the criminal justice system. Prior to working with the OFOVC, she was chair of the federal interdepartmental working group on harmful practices for many years. Before joining the federal civil service, she was a child protection social worker and worked in grassroots refugee rights advocacy and counselling with survivors of sexual violence and armed conflict.

Anne Marie Hunter is an ordained United Methodist pastor who has worked extensively in the field of domestic violence and elder abuse since 1984. Hunter holds a Master of Divinity from Harvard Divinity School and a Ph.D. in Religion and Society from Drew University. Hunter has worked for two domestic violence service agencies and served as the pastor of East Saugus United Methodist Church in Massachusetts. In 1991, Hunter and a circle of friends founded Safe Havens Interfaith Partnership Against Domestic Violence and Elder Abuse, a religiously diverse nonprofit organization that works locally and nationally to strengthen partnerships between diverse faith communities and frontline workers to provide support services to domestic and sexual violence survivors.

Nneka MacGregor, LL.B. is co-founder and Executive Director of the Women鈥檚 Centre for Social Justice (). A Black Intersectional abolitionist feminist, international speaker, and Transformative Accountability/Justice practitioner, Nneka is an expert advisory panel member of the Canadian Femicide Observatory for Justice and Accountability and founder of the . Her research focuses on sexual violence, and the intersection of strangulation, Traumatic Brain Injury and GBV. She received the 2019 PINK Concussions Award and the 2020 YWCA Women of Distinction Social Justice Award and one of two 2024 (AiR) at the University of Guelph, in Ontario, Canada.

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 by sexual harm 鈥� 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 anti-violence and restorative justice work. Both of these fields have fed her interest in tackling both personal and systemic issues through non-carceral pathways. Through her different roles in the CJI Kate has come to highly 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.

Sabha Sajjad-Hazai launched Canada鈥檚 first faith-based legal clinic pilot project supporting survivors of gender-based violence in diverse Muslim communities navigating the family law system in Ontario. She has spent more than two decades advancing access to justice initiatives focused on Muslim women鈥檚 legal rights in Canada. She frequently speaks and teaches on the future of law, exploring how technology and artificial intelligence can expand access to legal services for underserved communities. She is a faculty member with The Advocates鈥� Society and a deputy judge in Central West Region Ontario. She also contributes to professional development programming through the Law Society of Ontario and mentors emerging lawyers at Toronto Metropolitan University Lincoln Alexander School of Law.

Michel Morin is a Full Professor at the Faculty of Law of the Universit茅 de Montr茅al. His research focuses on Comparative Legal History of public and private law and the evolution of Aboriginal Peoples鈥� rights.听His book, co-authored with Arnaud Decroix and David Gilles "Les tribunaux et l'arbitrage en Nouvelle-France et au Qu茅bec de 1740 脿 1784" (Courts and Arbitration in New France and Quebec, 1740-1784), was awarded the Rodolphe Fournier 2013 prize (ex aequo) by the F茅d茅ration des soci茅t茅s d'histoire du Qu茅bec (Federation of Historical Societies of Quebec) and the Chamber of Notaries. In 2023, Professor Morin was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Natasha Bakht is a professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa whose research focuses on the intersection of religious freedom and women鈥檚 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鈥檚 legal and political system. Her book In Your Face: Law Justice and Niqab-Wearing Women in Canada was listed in the Hill Times 100 Best Books of 2020 and received the 2020-2021 Huguenot Society of Canada Award. Prof Bakht is the President of the Canadian Association for the Study of Islam and Muslims. She is also an award-winning dancer and choreographer, trained in Bharata Natyam and specializing in Indian contemporary dance.

Marie Manikis is an Associate Professor and William Dawson Chair at the Faculty of Law, 涩里番. She is also a Research Associate at the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford and 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 community participation across criminal legal processes. She is the author of Victims as Agents of State Accountability (Oxford University Press, 2026) and has published in leading journals. Her award-winning scholarship has been cited by several courts, and she regularly advises governmental and non-governmental bodies in Canada and the United Kingdom.

Kirsten Anker is Associate Professor at 涩里番 Faculty of Law, teaching property, equity & trusts, legal theory and Aboriginal law/Indigenous legal traditions. She has published research on a legal pluralist framework for the co-existence of state and Indigenous legal orders, the integration of Indigenous legal traditions in formal legal education, and ecological jurisprudence.