Soraya Amiri is an experienced media professional and women’s rights advocate with over five years of journalism experience in print, radio, and television in Afghanistan and Canada. In 2022, Soraya received a one-year fellowship from The Walrus as a Journalist-in-Residence under a Journalists for Human Rights and Meta program. Soraya… view full article >>
MULTIDIMENSIONAL POVERTY PEER NETWORK (MPPN) | JULY 21, 2024 Our founder and Chief Belonging Officer Kim Samuel, alongside senior researchers Dr. Prenika Anand and Samuel McQuillen, discuss the critical role… view full article >>
History tells us that we’re in trouble if we prioritize efficiency and growth over values like equity and social connectedness. By Kim Samuel Recently, the renowned venture capitalist Vinod Khosla… view full article >>
Welcome to the Samuel Centre for Social Connectedness’s newsletter, “Voices from the Movement!” In this ongoing digital publication, SCSC will strive to highlight writers who are researching and advocating across… view full article >>
SCSC’s 2020 Social Connectedness Fellows felt passionately and strongly about social justice, as they were faced with both COVID-19 and advocacy bolstered by the Black Lives Matter movement, which took… view full article >>
Last week, Human Rights Watch (HRW) released their World Report 2020—an annual review of human rights around the globe. In Canada, HRW reported that progress has been made in many… view full article >>
On January 10th, 2019, Human Rights Watch released a report, looking into the impact of austerity and the unjust allocation of social services on the health and dignity of older… view full article >>
Shame, Humiliation and Social Isolation: Missing Dimensions of Poverty and Suffering Analysis in which they argue that: [T]he use of particular indicators of shame, humiliation, and social isolation can better… view full article >>