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Episode 98: The TAP Project: Insights from Ecuador’s Exploration of Canada’s Indigenous Justice System

Indigenous Peoples – Jan 2025

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Episode 98: The TAP Project: Insights from Ecuador’s Exploration of Canada’s Indigenous Justice System
Broadcast Date: January 9, 2025

 

SUMMARY

Discover the impact of the Technical Assistance Program (TAP) through the experience of the Ecuadorian delegation at CIAJ’s 2024 Symposium on Indigenous Justice System. Hosted by Christine O’Doherty, the Honourable Milton Enrique Velasquez Diaz, Justice of the National Court of Justice of Ecuador, explores how TAP facilitates exchanges between judicial experts and justice system actors, while supporting global reform efforts. This dialogue highlights lessons learned from the Canadian system on indigenous justice issues, and their relevance in an international context.

 

Guest

  • The Honourable Milton Enrique Velasquez Diaz, Justice of the National Court of Justice, Ecuador 

Host

  • Christine O’Doherty, Lawyer & Executive Director, CIAJ

 

 


ABOUT THE TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE PARTNERSHIP PROJECT (TAP):

Global Affairs Canada’s Technical Assistance Partnership Project (TAP), is designed to deploy Canadian experts from a range of disciplines to provide technical assistance to developing countries. The Office of the Commissioner for Federal Judicial Affairs (FJA) is one of the Canadian government agencies with an international development project under TAP. Under TAP, FJA engages with up to three countries per year for a one-year program of capacity building for judicial institutions. This mechanism allows Canada to use the experience in our judicial system to respond to requests for technical assistance made through Canadian missions abroad. Technical assistance is provided in response to needs expressed by partner countries, but in alignment with Canada’s international development priorities, including the strengthening of gender equality and the protection of human rights.

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BIOGRAPHIES

  • The Honourable Milton Enrique Velasquez Diaz, Justice of the National Court of Justice, Ecuador 

Master in Administrative Law from the Austral University of Buenos Aires, Argentina (2011). PhD in Law from the University Pompeu Fabra of Barcelona, Spain (2018), being his line of research the structures of justice and judicial independence.

Graduate teaching at University Andina Simón Bolivar, Ecuador and University of Espíritu Santo, Ecuador. Undergraduate professor at University of Guayaquil, Catholic University of Santiago de Guayaquil, University San Francisco of Quito. Guest professor at National University of La Matanza, Argentina and National University of Cuyo, Argentina.

His judicial experience includes: Third Civil and Commercial Judge in Guayaquil, Ecuador; Advisor to the Constitutional Court of Ecuador; currently, Judge of the Contentious Administrative Chamber of the National Court of Justice of Ecuador.

Member of the Ecuadorian Institute of Procedural Law and of the Institute of Studies in Administrative Law IDEAS.

Author of several articles and works on judicial independence, most notably “Administrative Control of Jurisdiction?” (University Espíritu Santo, 2018) and “Judicial independence and bureaucratic judiciary. Perspectives from South America” (TransJus Research Institute – University of Barcelona, 2017).

  • Christine O’Doherty, Lawyer & Executive Director, CIAJ

Christine O’Doherty has been CIAJ’s Executive Director since 2017. A bilingual lawyer experienced in professional, labour and commercial law, she has contributed to developing and implementing effective government relations and public affairs strategies for a number of major organizations. Ms. O’Doherty has taught at the Faculté de pharmacie de l’Université de Montréal for 14 years, where she was responsible for the implementation of the soft skills curriculum for graduate and undergraduate students. In her spare time she writes fiction.

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