Exploited Persons Act. Human Rights up front. Où en sommes-nous? The Saad Truth. Fil D'Arianne.

Concordia faculty and researchers are regularly asked to offer expert, informed opinions on many of today's most pressing problems. Read some of the latest news items about Concordians:

• Several Concordians are listed among the signatories to an open letter in Le Devoir calling for abrogation of the federal law on prostitution — the Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act: Viviane Namaste, a professor in the Simone de Beauvoir Institute (SdBI); Francine Tremblay, a lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology; Abby Lippman, a research assistant in the SdBI; Thomas Waugh, a professor in the Department of Cinema; Jenn Clamen, a lecturer in the SdBI; Concordia lecturers Ryan Conrad and Karen Herland.
• Christiana Abraham, a lecturer in the Department of Communication Studies, is named among the signatories to a letter in Huffington Post Québec calling on political leaders to put the principles in the U.N.' s Universal Declaration of Human Rights at the centre of their decision-making.
• Toronto's Le Métropolitain writes about the recent 'Québec-Ontario : Où en sommes-nous?' conference on francophone immigration in Ontario and Quebec. Mireille Paquet, an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science, and Daniel Salée, a professor in the School of Community and Public Affairs, can be seen in a picture of conference participants.  
• Gad Saad, a professor in the Department of Marketing at the John Molson School of Business, writes a piece in The Prince Arthur Herald critical of Chrystia Freeland, federal Minister of International Trade, following her recent appearance on the program Real Time with Bill Maher. Saad takes Freeland to task for what he terms her "ostrich logic" on questions involving refugees, religious freedom and Islamic extremism. The piece is based on Saad's YouTube clip The Saad Truth_96.
• An article in Le Devoir mentions that Valérie de Courville Nicol, a professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, appears in one of five video capsules featured in the TV5 web series Le Fil D'Arianne, about self-help and motivational gurus.

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