February, 2012
Erna is pleased to announce that the Persian-language edition of The Sun Climbs Slow: The International Criminal Court and the Struggle for Justice has been published by Enteshar Publication Co.,Tehran. In addition to being made available to the general public, the book will be studied by Iranian law students. In a separate edition, students will have access to the Rome Statute, the legal treaty that underlies the workings of the ICC. [more]
Canada Committee News
This month, the Canada Committe welcomes Erna Paris.
Erna has accepted an invitation from Human Rights Watch to join the organization’s Canada Committee. Human Rights Watch is one of the world’s leading independent organizations dedicated to defending and protecting human rights. [more]
January 2012
The venerable Canadian International Council (CIC) recently arrived on the web as www.opencanada.org, an exciting new hub for discussion on Canada’s foreign policy and International Affairs. Erna has joined as a “Rapid Responder.” Responders are academics, journalists, and other foreign affairs buffs who have been invited to fire off their opinions (in 150 words or less) on weekly questions. Check out the website to experience high-level unmediated writing and conversation about Canada’s role in the world.
By Natalie Samson, March 15, 2012, Quill and Quire
It’s been a significant week for the International Criminal Court in The Hague: on Wednesday, a decade after its founding, the court passed down its first verdict.
To Erna Paris, author of The Sun Climbs Slow: The International Criminal Court and the Struggle for Justice (Knopf Canada, 2008), it’s a moment that signifies the growing influence of the ICC. As she awaited this week’s milestone, Paris received another sign of its global reach: her book was published in the Islamic Republic of Iran. [more]
October 25, 2011
Long Shadows:Truth, Lies and History was chosen by the finalists for the inaugural Hilary Weston Writers Trust Prize for Nonfiction as one of Canada’s twenty-five most influential works of nonfiction: the books that had made a difference in their lives.
Erna Paris is the author of seven acclaimed books of literary non-fiction and the winner of ten national and international writing awards. More »
