Anne-Claire Gayet

Anne-Claire Gayet, Msc International Studies and LLM (International Public Law), and candidate to the BCL/LLB at McGill University.

Agent of Domain 5, Justice, Policing and Security from the Quebec Metropolis Centre (http://im.metropolis.net/research-p...).

In 2009, she was the coordinator of the Hans & Tamar Oppenheimer Chair in Public International Law at McGill University. From 2007 to 2009, she first was research assistant and then the coordinator of the Canada Research Chair in International Migration Law, of the Center of International Studies and Research of the Université de Montreal.

As an intern at the Health Division of the Council of Europe in 2007, she took part in the writing of the Declaration of the Bratislava Conference of the Ministers of Health from the Council of Europe Member states, which bore on "People on the Move: Challenges to Health Systems and Human Rights".

She also did an internship with the United Nations High Commission for Refugees at the Regional office in Montreal in 2008.

She was trained in forced migration issues, as a participant to the 2009 Winter Course on Forced Migration, Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group, Kolkata, (http://www.mcrg.ac.in/), and to the Summer Course in Forced Migration at Oxford University in 2008.

Her master’s thesis in International Public Law bears on the rights of temporary farm workers in Quebec and the implications of tied-work permits with the employers.

Conferences:

2011 (March 24). “Lien fixe avec l’employeur et le droit à des conditions de travail justes et raisonnables : le cas des travailleurs agricoles saisonniers au Québec”
13th National Metropolis Conference, Vancouver.

2010 (December 16). “Le lien fixe avec l’employeur dans le cadre des programmes des travailleurs agricoles saisonniers au Québec: violation de l’article 46 de la Charte québécoise interprété à la lumière du droit international”
Migrants Day, organized i.a. by Au Bas de l’Échelle, Centre Justice et Foi, Montréal.

2010 (February 2). “Las migraciones hoy en día”.
Instituto de educación secundaria Gonzalez de Aguilar, Ayamonte, Spain.

2009 (December 13). “Ethics of Care: How Humanitarian Are Our Humanitarian Institutions?”
Winter Course on Forced Migration, Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group, Kolkata.

2009 (December 6). “States’ Obligations to Protect: a Perspective from the Global North.”
Winter Course on Forced Migration, Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group, Kolkata.

2009 (13 October). “Le droit international des droits de la personne et les travailleurs migrants temporaires au Canada: font-ils bon ménage?”.
Students workshops of the Research Centre of Public Law, Université de Montréal. Available in mp3 format: http://www.crdp.umontreal.ca/fr/act... Or on Papyrus: http://hdl.handle.net/1866/3078

2009 (3 July). “Les limites à l’accès aux soins de santé pour les enfants migrants vulnérables”.
31st International Congress of Law and Mental Health, New York, USA.

2009 (29 May). “Immigration temporaire au Canada : historique, évolution et perspectives des politiques”. _ Spring Consultation of the Canadian Council for Refugees, Quebec, Canada.

2009 (4 April). “Does the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program Respect International Human Rights Standards?” Annual McGill Graduate Studies Conference, McGill University, Montreal.

2009 (20 March). “International Human Rights Standards and the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program: Canada and International Labour Organization’s standards”. National Metropolis Conference, Calgary, Canada.

2008 (13 June). “The Right to Health and Asylum Seekers in Canada: A Legal Perspective.” Oxford Summer School in Forced Migration. Oxford University, England.

Communications with the medias

2009 (23 june). Interview with Raymond Desmarteau, Broadcast Tam Tam, Radio Canada International, on the situation of temporary low-skilled workers in Canada. Available on line, Tam Tam, 1st part, 23 June 2009.

Publications

Article on "Médiation" for the glossary of the French -speaking Research Network on Peacekeeping Operations. http://www.operationspaix.net/Mediation