Tebasum Durrani
Class of 2020
Tebasum is a lawyer who has built her career working with marginalized communities in Toronto, initially as an employment lawyer at Flemingdon Community Legal Services and most recently at the Human Rights Legal Support Centre. She has additional background in health policy and has worked at the Centre for Addictions and Mental Health in Toronto. She has worked in the fields of immigration law, health law, landlord and tenant law – as well as on a range of employment law and policy, including minimum wage rights and protection for employees who are victims of sexual harassment and assault. Having built her practice at the intersection of law and poverty, Tebasum is keen to cover how changes in law and in social programs affect the poor. She received her JD at Osgoode Hall Law School and a Bachelors of Journalism and Political Science at Carleton University in Ottawa. Tebasum will hold this year’s Maytree Scholarship, designated for a Fellow who is covering poverty as a rights issue.
Afghan lawyers and judges in danger
Twenty years after Walkerton, what’s changed?
What happens to workers’ rights during COVID-19?
Why immigration holding centres could become COVID-19 hot spots
Disconnected: Ontario prisoners lack basic phone access
Should an alleged criminal act get you banned from social housing?
‘People live in fear’: What the auditor general’s report could mean for disability support in Ontario
