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David Wiseman
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uOttawa law professor
#A2J 🍉
Really looking forward to listening to Alex Neve’s urgently needed Massey Lectures message on renewing human rights (universally) tonight! We are so fortunate to have him as a colleague at uO.

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"Power lies in the collective”: Alex Neve finds hope for universality in small acts | Faculty of Law
For Neve, an adjunct professor of international human rights law, universality is “all-encompassing.”  It is a concept that binds us to one another. It creates a whole from many disparate parts. In hi...
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October 30, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I saw this documentary at the Mayfair Theatre in the summer … a must see! If you missed it, here’s another chance 👇

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The Encampments | Free Screening - Les campements | Projection gratuite
An urgent look at America’s student movement, sparked at Columbia University, as students protested ties to the genocide in Gaza.
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October 30, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Sign on if you agree Israel (like Russia) should not be permitted to participate in the FIFA World Cup 2026 (in Nth America) or the next qualifying round starting later this week.

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FIFA are rolling out the red carpet for Israel
But together with these brave Italian football coaches, we can do something about it. Join us.
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September 3, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Happy to have signed on to this, as a human, as a law professor and as a tennis player/fan 🎾☮️🍉
“Given the ongoing genocide in Gaza…we call on Sport Canada and Tennis Canada to forbid Canadian athletes to compete against Israeli athletes at the Davis Cup and all other international events.”

- 413 🇨🇦 academics, athletes + sports journalists, inc 3 former UN special rapporteurs + an Olympic 🥈ist
August 18, 2025 at 5:49 PM
From the vigil for Anas al-Sharif and colleagues, who were murdered by the Israeli military for doing journalism in Gaza, outside CBC Ottawa this evening. As one offering says: “You only target journalists when your enemy is the truth”

The ongoing Israeli genocidal atrocities need to be stopped.
August 11, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Kudos to these Tory MPs … more should join them, from their own and other Commonwealth parliaments … overdue for MPs in Australia and Canada to speak up on this …

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Senior Tory MPs and peers break ranks to call for recognition of Palestine
Exclusive: Conservatives ask Keir Starmer to stand ‘against indefinite occupation’ and ‘reinforce international law’
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May 7, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Reposted by David Wiseman
BDS victory: Yesterday, the Association of Professors of the University of Ottawa passed a motion calling on the university to divest from institutions “enabling human rights violations, war crimes, and any other breaches of international law in the [OPT].” www.cjpme.org/who_supports...
May 1, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Excellent! (And note the coming into force of the new municipal by-law on renovictions in Hamilton … should be the minimum of protection for tenants in all municipalities in Ontario)

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Some tenants at this Ontario building have been there for decades. Here's how they won their renoviction case | CBC News
Some tenants had been living in the Emerald Street South building in Hamilton for decades when their landlord tried to evict them for cosmetic upgrades to the kitchens, bathrooms and floors.
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April 1, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Great to see such strong support from Ontario’s legal community for Joint Letter to Premier Doug Ford opposing invocation of the Notwithstanding Clause to override fundamental rights of people experiencing homelessness and living in encampments 👇

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Letter to Ontario Premier Ford - December 2.pdf
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December 2, 2024 at 3:06 PM