Renu Mandhane
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Renu is the Director of the International Human Rights Program and Clinical Lecturer at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law.

Renu graduated from the Faculty with a J.D., articled at Torys LLP in Toronto, and completed her LL.M. at New York University with a focus on international human rights law.

In addition to publishing in the area, Renu is a member of the main and advocacy committees of Human Rights Watch Canada, and has worked at a number of domestic and international organizations focused on advancing women's human rights, including the Centre for Reproductive Rights in New York, and the Association for Women's Rights in Development in Toronto.

Prior to joining the Faculty, Renu practiced criminal law from an equality rights perspective for approximately four years and routinely represented survivors of domestic and sexual violence, as well as federally-sentenced prisoners. Most recently, Renu was an Assistant Dean at the Faculty and worked extensively on the review of the first year curriculum.

Blog Entries by Renu Mandhane

How Canadian Prisons Torture the Mentally Ill

(20) Comments | Posted June 1, 2012 | 1:09 PM

In recommendations released June 1, the UN Committee Against Torture slammed Canada's treatment of prisoners with mental health issues. The committee found that Canada has inadequate infrastructure to deal with the rising and complex needs of prisoners with mental illness, and continues to use inappropriate and extensively prolonged...

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Is Canada Really Against Torture?

(3) Comments | Posted May 22, 2012 | 9:18 AM

Today in Geneva, the Committee Against Torture, a UN body tasked with ensuring compliance with the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, will consider Canada's record. On first glance, the words "cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment" seem entirely at odds with Canadian notions of...

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