pearleliadis
pearleliadis
| Forum role | Member since | Last activity | Topics created | Replies created |
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| Member | May 21, 2011 (15 years) |
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Bio
Pearl Eliadis is a senior lawyer in private practice based in Montreal and an educator. She has successfully led complex, global projects on national human rights institutions, capacity assessment, and women’s rights with institutional and multilateral clients. Pearl has undertaken in-country human rights assessments, and has been retained by institutional and multilateral clients, Canadian human rights institutions, and has worked in China, Ethiopia, Nepal, Rwanda, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Tajikistan and Timor Leste.
She is Associate Professor (professional) at McGill University's Max Bell School of Public Policy and she also lectures at the Faculty of Law. Pearl is a full member of the McGill Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, serving on several non-profit and advisory boards. She has been appointed three times as President of the Quebec Bar Association’s Human Rights and Diversity Committee and has still servies on its expert committee. She has published extensively on human rights and governance issues. Her monograph, Speaking Out on Human Rights: Debating Canada’s Human Rights System, was named one of the best books in 2014, winning the Huguenot Society of Canada Award for freedom of expression and conscience. In 2017, she was named a Human Rights Changemaker by Equitas and received the 2024 Award for Excellence in Human RIghts from the Atlantic Human Rights Centre (St. Thomas University).
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