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The Alberta Civil Liberties Research Centre provides speakers free of charge (subject to some limitations) on a wide range of civil liberties and human rights topics.
The Centre also provides one day fee-for-service seminars on civil liberties and human rights issues, such as "Getting Government Information" and "Harassment in the Workplace".
The Research Centre offers a Brown Bag Lecture series every year - free lectures held at the University of Calgary over the lunch hour on various civil liberties and human rights issues. Past topics have included access to information, children’s rights, hate groups, reproductive technology, religion in schools, domestic violence, Aboriginal rights, religion in schools, sexual orientation, human rights in general, and others. In 1999-2000, we hope to offer discussions on refugees and human rights, privacy issues, prisoner’s rights and others.
The Human Rights Education Project which is intended for secondary school students and their teachers helps to teach students about human rights law, including international human rights law, Canadian human rights and civil liberties law, and provincial human rights legislation.
The Research Centre undertakes research on contemporary civil liberties and human rights issues that are of concern to Albertans. The projects are diverse - from proposals for reform of human rights legislation, to a report on Alberta’s compliance with the Universal Declaration on the Rights of the Child, to a report on citizen complaints about police conduct, to a manual for lawyers who represent mentally disabled clients.
Research projects for 1999-2000 include freedom of expression, religion in schools, human rights, young offenders, prisoners and work, harassment in schools, privacy and others.
For information about our publications, see our publications list.
The Research Centre responds to members of the public who email or call us with questions about civil liberties and human rights. We receive hundreds of questions every year and we provide information or refer callers to other resources. The Research Centre does not engage in advocacy - neither in individual cases, nor in the form of political lobbying.
The Research Centre relies upon volunteers and donors to maintain its programs. For more information about how you can help, please see our volunteers and donors page.
For more information about ACLRC’s programs please contact us.
