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Conferences, Calls for Papers, etc.... 2003
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CFPs, fellowships and the like are listed by submission deadline.
December 13, 2003, 9:00am - 5:30pm
St. Xavier's College
Xavier's Institute of Management
Conference Room No. 2.2, 2nd Floor
Mahapalika Marg
Mumbai 400 001 India
Over the past few years, there has been an increase in the number of refugees facing persecution in their native lands pouring into India from Bangladesh, Iraq, Afghanistan, Tibet, Burma, etc. Lawyers, faculties, legals professionals and students are invited to a workshop which seeks to bring about awareness regarding refugees, the law relating to refugees, the problems faced by them, durable solutions for refugees.
Programme
Time & Session & Speaker
9:00 Registration of participants
9:30 Introduction: Adv. Aparna Bhat (S.C.)
9:45 Definition of Refugee, Principles governing the Refugee
Convention; Discussion : Adv. Aparna Bhat (S.C.)
11:00 Tea Break
11:15 Case studies and group discussion on definition of refugee
12:30 Experiences in court: Adv. Ryan/ Adv. Rebecca
1:00 Lunch
2:00 Screening of a film
2:30 Development of Refugee Law in India : Adv. Colin Gonsalves
(S.C.) Adv. Aparna Bhat (S.C.)
3:30 Tea Break
3:45 Refugee law Practice and Procedure : Adv. Ryan/ Adv. Rebecca
4:30 Durable solutions/ Naturalisation : Adv. Aparna Bhat (S.C.)
Saud
5:30 Conclusion
For details/ registration: contact Rebecca/ Lalit at +91-22-23436692/
23439651
St. Xavier's College Website
December 10, 2003
Kennedy Library
Boston, MA
This Human Rights Day event will feature Eve Ensler performing new work as well as a panel discussion with leading activists and practical workshops. It will examine violence against women as a human rights issue, and aims to bring together activists and concerned citizens in the Boston area to network and mobilize for joint action on domestic and international issues related to violence against women.
Information: Chen Reis CReis@phrusa.org
December 9 - 11, 2002
University of Sydney
Sydney, Australia
The Global Alliance for Justice Education (GAJE) brings together legal academics, law students, jurists, community workers, advocates and legal practitioners from around the world with the common goal of achieving justice through legal education. This regional conference is being organised by members of GAJE Australasia, in partnership with Kingsford Legal Centre, staff and students at the Law Faculties of the University of Sydney and University of New South Wales, and the Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning, University of Technology, Sydney.
See website for details.
November 15, 2003*
Gender, Ethnicity and Children's Human Rights: Theorizing Babies Born of Wartime Rape and Sexual Exploitation
According to recent reports, thousands of infants have resulted from mass rape campaigns or sexual exploitation during times of war in the last decade. Anecdotal reports suggest these war babies, children born on the wrong side of a conflict - often face stigma, discrimination and even infanticide. Very little systematic scholarly data exists assessing their status and fate or theorizing their protection needs from a children's human rights perspective. To address this gap, I seek contributions from established scholars, graduate students, and human rights practitioners addressing this category of war-affected child. Contributions from fields such as sociology, political science, international law, anthropology, women's studies, and history are encouraged.
Paper authors will be invited to present their research at an
interdisciplinary workshop, tentatively scheduled to be held March 16,
2004 in conjunction with the International Studies Association Annual
Conference in Montreal, Quebec. (ISA Annual Conference Website)
Papers will forthwith be revised and submitted for inclusion in an edited
volume, to be prepared for submission to book publishers by summer 2005.
This book will be aimed at laying a foundation for future
interdisciplinary work on war babies as a concern for the children's human
rights community.
Contributions should be between 4000 and 7000 words long, and should address the intersection of gender, ethnicity, children's and women's human rights, sexual violence and armed conflict, and the evolving international legal framework that aims to regulate such behavior. Possible paper topics include but are not limited to:
1) Historical Perspective: cases of forced pregnancy, war babies in
earlier time periods
2) Intersection of gender, ethnicity, age, etc in nationalist
discourses
3) Post-conflict reconciliation processes: what role do war babies
play?
4) Humanitarian response to war babies by local and international
NGOs;
5) Socio-political construction of war babies by states;
6) War babies' ethnic/religious identities;
7) Oral histories of adult war children;
8) Care of war babies in institutions;
9) Documenting host communities' response to war babies (coping
mechanisms, strategies for assimilating, protection)
10) Documenting human rights abuses (infanticide, discrimination, etc)
11) Theory papers conceptualizing war babies in context of human
rights/humanitarian law
12) Analysis of international discourse or media framing of war baby
issue
13) Empirical analysis of particular cases (e.g. Liberia, Rwanda,
Bosnia, East Timor, Bangladesh, Kuwait)
14) Thematic comparison of different types of war baby (children born
of forced pregnancy, children born of sexual exploitation, children born
of consensual relations between local women and foreign soldiers)
15) Reconciling the needs of the infant with the health and dignity of
the mother
16) Responsibility of donor states for war children created by
soldiers/peacekeeping troops
17) War babies in the context of forced pregnancy prosecutions at
international tribunals
18) Redress for mothers and babies
19) The right to know v. the right to silence: best practices in
protection?
20) Methodological approaches/dilemmas to gathering data on issue
Please send proposals or queries, along with your institutional
affiliation and contact information, by attachment to
charli.carpenter@drake.edu.
Proposals are due by November 15, 2003. Submissions from graduate
students and international scholars are strongly encouraged. For more
information contact:
R. Charli Carpenter
Department of Politics and International Relations
Drake University
Des Moines, IA 50310
Tel: (515) 271-2136 or (515) 201-4114
Fax: (515) 271-1870
November 14, 2003*
Center for Civil and Human Rights - Notre Dame Law School
Transitional Justice Project
Visiting Residential Fellowships
*Deadline: A complete application, including references and all documentation, must be received by November 14, 2003. Award will be announced by December 12, 2003.
See Fellowship Website for details.
November 13 - 15, 2003
Northeastern Illinois University
Chicago, Illinois
What Lessons Have We Learned Fifty Years After the U.S. Sponsored Coups? An Exploration
Conference Description: A major international conference on the U.S. Sponsored Coups in Iran (1953) and Guatemala (1954) will be held by Northeastern Illinois University on its main campus in Chicago (Bryn Mawr and Central Park). This historic conference, first of its kind, will host a number of well known international scholars, journalists and experts, who will present their works and views on the legacy and lessons of these two coups for the U.S. foreign policy.
Keynote Speakers:
Thursday Night, November 13: Stephen Kinzer, Senior New York Times
Correspondent
and the co-author of Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in
Guatemala and the author of All the Shah's Men: An American Coup
and the Roots of Middle East Terror (the story of coup in Iran).
Friday Night, November 14: Amy Goodman, Journalist and Reporter for Democracy Now and Susan Jonas, Professor of Political Science at University of California at Santa Cruz.
Other Confirmed Distinguished Speakers Include: Janet Afary, Associate Professor of History and Women's Studies, Purdue University, Cyrus Bina, Professor of Economics, University of Minnesota-Morris Malcolm Byrne, National Security Archives at George Washington University, Douglass Cassel, Director, Center for International Human Rights of Northwestern University School of Law, Mansur Fahrang, Professor of Political Science, Bennington College and former Iranian Ambassador to the United Nations, Saied Fatemi, Dr. Mossadegh's translator at Hague's Tribunal and the last remaining person present at Dr. Mossadegh's House on the faithful day of August 19, 1953. Maricela Garcia McConnell, Vice President, National Network for Immigrants and Refugee Rights, Mark Gasiorowski, Professor of Political Science, Louisiana State University, Carlos Gomez, Foundation for Human Rights in Guatemala, Amy Goodman, Democracy Now, Mahmoud Goudarzi, Washington D.C.-based journalist, Richard Grossman, Adjunct History Professor, Northeastern Illinois University, Susanne Jonas, Professor of Political Science, University of California at Santa Cruz, Houshang Keshavarz Sadr, Researcher and Writer (Paris, France), Stephen Kinzer, New York Times Senior Correspondent, Raúl Molina-Mejia, Adjunct History Professor, Long Island University, José Oliva, Director, Interfaith Workers' Rights Center, Adriana Portillo-Bartow, Amnesty International USA, Stephen Rabe, Professor of History, University of Texas-Dallas, Shirin Vossoughi, Graduate Student at New York University School of Law, Fariba Zarineh Baf, Professor of History, Northwestern University
Topics: Some of the topics that will be covered in various panels are:
The Events, Effects, and Lessons of the 1953 Iranian Coup and the 1954
Guatemalan Coup
United States Foreign Policy Motives and Interests in the 1953/1954
Coups
The Effects of the 1953/1954 Coups on Politics, Economics, and Human
Rights in Iran and Guatemala
Economic Aspects of the Coups: Are There Any Lessons for Globalization
Today?
Personal Reflections of People Who Were There During the Iranian and Guatemalan
Coups
Lessons of the Coups and the Future of U.S. Foreign Policy in Iran
and Guatemala
Resistance, History, and Literature's of the Iranian and Guatemalan
Coups
The Lessons and Challenges of the 1953/1954 Coups for our Current Age
A Historic Conference:
This conference is historic as it provides for an in-depth review of U.S.
foreign policy of covert intervention in removing two democratic regimes in
two different parts of the world, discusses its consequences and proposes some
lessons for the future policies. The conference also provides an arena for the
Iranian and Guatemalan communities to share their common experiences of these
two coups.
A special Healing Ceremony of Candle Lighting will be held on Friday night. The first two days of the conference are in English and the Saturday sessions are in Persian/Spanish.
Conference Co-Sponsors:
American Friends Service Committee, Amnesty International, Midwest Office,
Center for International Human Rights at Northwestern University School of
Law, Chicago Metropolitan Sanctuary Alliance, EPICA (Ecumenical Taskforce
on Central America and the Caribbean), Heartland Café and Journal, In
These Times, Mexican and Caribbean Studies Program, NEIU, Sharhvand
Persian Newspaper
Fund Raising Event(s): A number of fund raising events are planned for
this conference, including one at Heartland Cafe (in Chicago) on Saturday,
October 25, at 9:00 p.m.
Conference Hotel: Howard Johnson Hotel 9333 Skokie Blvd. Skokie, IL 60077
Telephone: 847-679-4200
To receive special conference rates*, caller must mention: 1) "Northeastern
University Conference" 2) Conference Block Code: NEUC * All rates include a
buffet breakfast.
Conference Attendance:
Conference attendance is free for Northeastern Illinois University
Students, Faculty and Staff. Students from other universities will be
admitted free with a valid student ID. Others will be charged an
admission fee of $25.00 for all Conference events, including keynote
speeches. Admission for Keynote Events only, is $10.00 for each event.
Contact Information: contact James Moody at (773) 442-5443 or j-moody@neiu.edu
November 13 - 14, 2003
Rogue Community College, Redwood Campus
Grants Pass, Oregon
Ninth Annual Conference
ODI addresses historical and contemporary issues of access, social justice, human rights and equality.
Keynote speakers:
Ed Morales, author of Living in Spanglish and longtime
contributor to the Village Voice and
Monique Luse, a recent graduate from the University of Michigan and
affirmative action/student of color activist.
Conference themes include, but are not limited to, affirmative action, workplace equity and access, gay/lesbian/bisexual/trans access to equality and issues, success stories and tools, confronting privilege (race, class, gender, sexual orientation, ability, religion, age, etc.) and many more.
Registration will be available in early September. See our conference website for more details.
Call for presentations! ODI is accepting workshop presentation proposals. Please consider presenting, and pass the word on to others! We encourage engaging, interactive presentations that draw on the knowledge and experiences of the workshop participants.
Proposals are due September 15, 2003.
For general conference information, please contact Erika Giesen at egiesen@roguecc.edu (Erika will be out of the office from August 7th - September 2nd all emails sent during this time will be replied to upon return.)
November 8, 2003, 8:30am - 5:00pm
Northwestern University School of Law
Arthur Rubloff Building
375 East Chicago Avenue
Chicago, Illinois
A Northwestern University Conference
8:30 - 9:00 Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:15 Introductory Remarks
9:15 - 9:55 Small Arms-Related Violence and the
World Report on Violence and Health
David Meddings, MD, Department of Injuries and Violence Prevention
World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
9:55 - 10:35 How the International Arms Trade Works
Lora Lumpe, Consultant on Weapons Trade and Human Rights,
Washington, DC
10:35 - 10:50 Break
10:50 - 11:30 The Impact of National Laws on International Arms
Trafficking and Misuse
Wendy Cukier, PhD, Professor of IT Management and Justice Studies,
Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada
11:30 - 12:00 Discussion
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch and Keynote Address:
The Impact of the Arms Trade on Global Development
OSCAR ARIAS SANCHEZ
Nobel Peace Laureate, 1987, President of Costa Rica, 1986-1990
Luncheon sponsored by: Northwestern University School of Law
1:30 - 2:10 International Efforts to Reduce Trade in Small Arms
Rebecca Peters, Director International Action Network on Small Arms
(IANSA), London
2:10 - 2:50 Violence Prevention Programs: Children and Small Arms in
Colombia
Nelson Arboleda, MD, The Partnership for the Study and Prevention
of Violence, University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, Florida
2:50 - 3:05 Break
3:05 - 3:45 The Impact of Small Arms on Health in Nigeria
Ime John, MD, International Physicians for the Prevention of
Nuclear War, Nigeria
3:45 - 4:25 Supporting and Assessing Interventions to Prevent Armed
Violence in Low Income Settings
David Meddings, MD, Department of Injuries and Violence Prevention
World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
4:25 - 5:00 Discussion
5:00 Closing
ADVANCE REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED (no charge) to attend the Keynote Address and lunch
For additional information and registration, please contact:
Office of International Program Development
Northwestern University
E-mail: international@northwestern.edu
Phone: (847) 467-7834
October 31 - November 2, 2003
Western Regional Conference
Crowne Plaza Hotel
Redondo Beach, CA
Amnesty International Western Regional Conference
"Imagine: A World Without Discrimination"
(The conference will begin with Friday evening entertainment. The main program will begin Saturday at 10:00 AM and will continue until approximately 3:00 PM Sunday.)
Keynote Speakers:
Loretta Ross, Executive Director, The National Center for Human
Rights Education
Paul Hoffman, Chair, International Executive Committee of Amnesty
International
Carrie Dann, Western Shoshone Defense Project
See conference website for details.
October 30 - 31, 2003
William Paterson University
Wayne, NJ, USA
Humanizing Globalization: A Quest for Sustainable Development, Social Justice and Good Governance
October 30 Keynote Address will be delivered by Ms.Mary
Robinson,
former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
October 31 Keynote Address will be delivered by Dr. Jan Kavan,
President of the 57th Session of the U.N. General Assembly
For details on the schedule and registration visit the conference website.
October 24, 2003
John Jay College of Crinimal Justice
The City University of New York, Graduate Center
Center on Terorism and Public Safety
What has been done? What can be done?
What is being done? What should be done?
The idea of using torture in the interrogation of potential terrorists is now widely accepted by Americans. If Zacarias Moussaoui had been tortured in mid-August, 2001, we might well have prevented the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Or so the argument goes. But can torture ever be legally condoned in a liberal and open democracy such as ours? In a climate of fear do we risk destroying our most cherished values to feel safer?
This international symposium will bring together scholars from various disciplines, including law and ethics; human rights workers and those with direct experience of torture; and practitioners from intelligence, law enforcement, and other areas who deal with the real world of counter-terrorism, to consider the new meanings of torture in an age of terrorism and apocalyptic violence.
See conference website for details.
October 17 - 19, 2003
Hyatt Regency Hotel
Bethesda, MD
Sponsored by NOW Foundation and the American Association of People with
Disabilities
Information: 202-628-8669, Conference
Website
October 15 - 31, 2003
Internet
Facing History and Ourselves invites you to join us for a vital conversation exploring efforts to build peace across religious and cultural boundaries in a time of rising religious and ethnic violence.
In his book, The Ambivalence of the Sacred: Religion, Violence and
Reconciliation, Scott Appleby notes:
The last quarter of the twentieth century has seen the establishment of
more than thirty constitutional democracies around the world and the
proliferation of international laws, treaties, covenants, and other
instruments devoted to the articulation and protection of human
rights. During the same period, however, it became painfully clear that
these international covenants and laws were largely irrelevant to
societies lacking a culture in which individual and minority rights are
valued. In the dozens of nations crippled by bloody insurrections, civil
wars, or genocidal campaigns, the advocates of human rights and
intercommunal dialogue were overshadowed by religious and ethno
nationalist extremists.
Where will solutions to these conflicts come from? What will be the role of law, human rights, and religion in efforts to prevent violence and build peace?
The forum will be moderated by Dr. Marc Gopin. Marc Gopin is the James H. Laue Professor of World Religions, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University. He is the author of Holy War, Holy Peace and Between Eden and Armageddon. The forum will be joined by peacebuilders, scholars, and journalists from around the world.
Participation in this forum is free of charge and there are no advanced technical requirements. For more information visit the Facing History and Ourselves Website.
If you have any questions email: adam_strom@facing.org or howard_lurie@facing.org
October 2 - 3, 2003
Stanford University
Palo, Alto, California
A conference on the statewide and national implications of the California Race Information Ban, a proposed initiative which threatens to limit the collection and use of racial and ethnic data. The speakers will explore "colorblindness" and the politics of controlling racial and ethnic data; the impact of information restrictions on scientific research, health, education and legal justice; the use and misuse of racial and ethnic data, and journalistic approaches to racial and ethnic information.
Co-sponsored by the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Equal Justice Society, California Coalition for Civil Rights, Annenberg Institute for Justice and Journalism, and Center for Biomedical Ethnics
Information: contact Allegra Churchill at 415-543-9444 or ejs@lccr.com
October 2, 2003
New York City, NY
See Amnesty International Website on Hearings.
September 30, 2003
Tulsa, OK
See Amnesty International Website on Hearings.
September 29 - October 10, 2003
American University
Washington College of Law
4801 Massachusetts Avenue N. W.
Washington, D. C.
Central Asia Today: Challenges and Opportunities for Democracy and Reform
The symposium will highlight the many challenges of transition in this complex region. In addition to the events listed, there will be an exhibit of artwork and textiles from Central Asia on display at WCL during the symposium.
Sponsored by
the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law and
the Central and Eastern European and Newly Independent States Students
Organization (CEENISSO)
See conference website for details.
September 23, 2003
Chicago, IL
See Amnesty International Website on Hearings.
September 20, 2003, 9:00am -
5:15pm
Center for Advanced Legal Studies
Suffolk University School of Law
Boston, MA
The speakers are activists, practitioners, and academics. They include David Cole, Nancy Chang, Michael Avery, Leila Laoudji, David Rudovsky and Erwin Chemerinsky.
Registration including materials is $40 (and includes CLE credit for attorneys) and $15 for students.
For a full listing of speakers and co-sponsors, the conference schedule, and registration information, go to the conference website.
September 15, 2003*
The Oregon Diversity Institute (ODI)
Ninth Annual Conference
November 13 - 14, 2003
Rogue Community College, Redwood Campus
Grants Pass, Oregon
For details see November conference listing.
September 11 - 14, 2003
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
Co-sponsored by The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University, The W.E.B. DuBois Institute, The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, The Joblessness and Urban Poverty Research Program, The Harvard Immigration Project, and The UCLA Asian American Studies Center.
Information: Color Lines
Conference Website
or 617-496-6367 or crp@harvard.edu
September 9, 2003
San Francisco/Oakland, CA
See Amnesty International Website on Hearings.
September 5 - 6, 2003
Modesto Junior College
Modesto, California
Friday, September 5, 2003, 6:20 - 10:00pm - MJC Auditorium
Lee Mun Wah, Keynote Speaker
Lee Mun Wah, a documentary filmmaker, will show and discuss his new film,
"Last Chance to Eden," a must see film for anyone who has ever wondered
what it will take to end the violence and hatred overwhelming our country
and world.
Saturday, September 6, 2003, 7:30am - 5:00pm - MJC East Campus
GregAlan Williams, Keynote Speaker
GregAlan Williams is an Emmy Award Winning actor, presenting "Step Up and
Speak Up" - how to speak out on behalf of non-violence, mutual respect,
and building and maintaining an atmosphere of tolerance and respect on
campus.
See Modesto Junior College Website for conference details.
August 30 - September 1, 2003
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
This historic conference seeks to invigorate the national debate about the present and future of racial integration in the United States. Color Lines Conference will feature over 200 panelists drawn from a broad range of academic disciplines and professional sectors. These researchers, civic leaders, educators, business people, elected officials, union activists, attorneys, religious leaders and cultural workers comprise a major slice of the nation's intellectual, policy and civic leadership on matters of race and ethnicity. Their judgements, findings, and prescriptions will help to shape our understanding of race and the future trajectory of racial integration in the United States well into the 21st Century.
Co-sponsored by the W.E.B. Dubois Institute for Afro-American Research, the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, the Joblessness and Urban Poverty Research Program, the Harvard Immigration Project, and the UCLA Asian American Studies Center.
Registration Deadline August 1
MAIN THEME: PHILOSOPHY FACING WORLD PROBLEMS
The first congress of the XXIst Century and of the Third Millennium will
focus on problems we are faced with at the turn of the century, in the
light of philosophical knowledge. It aims at giving a picture of the
present state of philosophy and to point at trends of development of
philosophy in the services of humanity.
Official Languages: English, French, German, Russian, Spanish, Turkish
Visit the XXIst World Congress
of Philosophy Webpage for detailed information.
See conference
website for details.
The Human Rights Education
Invited speakers include:
Panelists from academia, educational policy organizations, administrators,
teachers, students, and policy makers.
Through a series of panel discussions, the Human Rights Education Summit
will address issues that impact public and private school education in
America today. The learning environment in our schools is greatly affected
by social, economic, political, civil and cultural realities, as well as
by state and national dictates, such as No Child Left Behind, state
standards, and high-stakes testing.
The goal of the Summit is to shed light on relevant issues as well as to
bring to light effective human rights related strategies for dealing with
those issues. In addition, the Summit will provide an opportunity to
review the necessity and value of human rights education in our schools.
Participants of the Summit will be invited to contribute to a
collaborative position paper.
Cost:
Accommodations:
Host:
For More Information or a registration form: Please contact
Paraz@aiusa.org.
Join Amnesty student activists from all walks of life to develop hands-on
group leadership skills, including recruiting new activists, planning
powerful events, advocating for human rights, and energizing and
diversifying Amnesty's student movement. YAK is planned by and for youth
to empower students to determine the direction of their growth and take
the next step in developing as leaders within the organization.
Visit the YAK
Website for more information.
Speakers:
Topics:
Information:
JUSTICE is a British based law reform and human rights organisation.
It is also the British section of the International Commission of
Jurists.
JUSTICE is organising a major European conference on the European
Arrest Warrant, a key development in the European Union's approach to
Justice and Home Affairs which will change the face of extradition in
the EU from 2004. A limited number of bursaries are available for any
combination of conference fee /accommodation /travel.
For details visit the conference
website.
Contact:
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7762 6413 (Direct Line)
Hosted by the Centre for Law, Politics and Culture
See Conference
Website for details.
Conferences Themes and Description
* Irregular Migration
Irregular migration is a growing political concern, both at the European
level and in the wider international context. In the European Union,
politicians have given priority to combating irregular migration in the
development of the common asylum and immigration policy, which is most
evident from the Conclusions of the Seville European Council in June
2002. The Justice and Home Affairs Council recently adopted two
measures addressing the prevention of the facilitation of irregular
migration and a comprehensive Action Plan to combat the irregular
migration and trafficking of human beings in the EU, which is currently
in the process of implementation. Moreover, the EU is adopting
readmission agreements with third countries, which focus on the return
of irregular migrants in the context of a broader return policy on
illegal residents. The Greek Government has also stated that combating
irregular migration will constitute a priority under its current
Presidency of the EU. While these developments deserve particular
attention and will all be addressed, the scope of this conference is
broader because it aims to consider irregular migration not only from
the perspective of prevention, which arguably constitutes the thrust of
EU policy in this area, but also to analyze the human rights
implications as well as the broader theoretical and international
contexts.
The increasing importance of the subject of irregular migration and its
cross-fertilization with a number of academic and policy disciplines
means that the interest in such a conference very broad. The conference
will be of particular interest to legal practitioners, particularly in
Europe given the developing EU law and policy in this field referred to
above. The conference papers will be published in a book and to date
there is no source book, which can assist practitioners by describing
and explaining recent trends and developments. The conference will also
interest other social scientists, as well as political scientists and
the NGO sector, particular those groups concerned with the protection of
migrants and human rights in general. Moreover, the conference will also
be very useful to government policy-makers working in the immigration
field as well as national and European parliamentarians, who must apply
and analyze developing national, European and international policies
concerned with irregular migration. It should also attract attention
among those who report on and hope to influence policies, such as
journalists and lobbyists.
Visit the conference
website to download a draft conference programme and booking form.
See Conference
Website for details.
Proposal submission deadline: September 30, 2002
For detailed information visit
the Conference Website.
You are cordially invited to come to share and discuss your ideas about,
problems with and expertise in the issues of equity, social justice,
conflict resolution and democracy at the international conference. We
welcome you as a teacher, developer or researcher involved in
intercultural education or active in any other field and willing to
examine and develop your work from the perspective of promoting
intercultural understanding.
The Organising Committee invites papers and performances that address
educational and pedagogical issues in academic and vocational higher
education from the perspective of intercultural education. Within this
broad framework, the papers may focus on a variety of structures and
methods: regional, national or institutional policies, study and training
programmes, courses and curricula, teaching-learning processes, classroom
strategies and activities, in-service education and faculty/staff
development, or scientific research.
Organisers:
Human rights, despite over a half century of international efforts in
norm-setting, institution-building and implementation mechanism provision,
remain faced with serious challenges among which are the theoretical ones
relating to ontological and epistemological problems and the relationship,
manners of interaction and the extent of compatibility of human rights
with influential social institutions such as religion, morals, culture and
civilization.
Continuing from and building on the achievements of the first
International Conference on Human Rights and Dialogue of Civilizations,
which was held in May 2001, Mofid University is going to hold the second
conference of a series decided to occur every two years. The second
International Conference on Human Rights has the specific title of
"Theoretical Foundations of Human Rights."
The Conference is intended to be a serious effort to provide an
opportunity to various intellectual trends to discuss certain fundamental
theoretical issues of human rights. Therefore, scholars and researchers
from all countries are cordially invited to write papers on one of the
following topics. It is also left to the authors to write on sub-topics of
their choice.
Topics of the Conference:
1. Philosophy of Human Rights
2. Human Rights and Religion
3. Human Rights: Universality v. Cultural Diversity.
Authors should send a 500-word abstract (in English, Persian, or Arabic
languages) as e-mail attachment by February 4, 2002.
All abstracts must be submitted as Word documents and must contain the
title, author's name, postal address, telephone number and e-mail address.
They must also contain the schematic plan of the final paper, together
with its main assumptions and conclusions.
The papers must be submitted to the Secretariat of the Conference by
September 20, 2002.
The authors of the selected papers will be hosted by Mofid University
during the days of the Conference.
Mofid University
Secretariat of the Conference
Key contributors to the study of human rights have been gathered at this
conference to discuss the balance sheet of human rights practice, studies
and research, in the light of the dominance of legal approaches to human
rights questions.
Speakers include: Jack Donnelly, Michael Freeman, Stanley Cohen,
Francesca Klug, Ratna Kapur.
The conference will also include a roundtable with practitioners as well
as academics invited into the discussion.
This is an exciting new project in the field of human rights policy
studies.
Please find a description of the conference theme, session titles, speaker
list, and registration form at the conference website.
Any queries should be addressed to 'Human Rights Conference 2003' at:
spp@ucl.ac.uk
Human Rights Programme
The Forced Migration and Refugee Studies (FMRS) Program Workshop on Urban
Refugees Research at the American University in Cairo (AUC) is hosting a
workshop to discuss methods of studying refugees in urban environments and
the associated ethical dilemmas facing researchers. The emphasis will be
on dialogue; participants will have an opportunity to briefly
describe their methods and pitfalls that they have encountered in their
own research. The workshop will benefit from the expertise of specialists
such as Dr. Gaim Kibreab, well-known for his research in urban
situations in the South and Dr. Shaila Shrinavsin, a sociologist
who has conducted research on Pakistani entrepreneurs and is currently
involved in employment schemes for refugees and migrants. A publication is
expected to result from the meeting.
Background to the Workshop
Furthermore, social science research in many of the countries that host
significant populations of refugees in urban areas is likely to be controlled,
censored, or contested in some way, making it even more difficult to collect
reliable data and adhere to ethical standards of research. This workshop
aims to address some of these methodological and ethical difficulties
through sessions drawing on lessons learned in other urban settings, both
in the North and the South.
A registration form and program for the workshop will be forwarded to
those who express interest. The registration fee for the workshop is $20
(USD). Information concerning a range of inexpensive hotels and average
costs of living in Cairo can be obtained from our
website under
Outreach -Workshops. Please indicate if you are attending and send offers
of research issues that you wish to present and send them to the following
address, mentioning Workshop on Urban Methodology in the subject heading:
Alia Arafa, Program Administrator
Email: fmrs@aucegypt.edu
Network of Communities for Peacemaking and Conflict
Resolution (NCPCR)/PeaceWeb Conference & Expo 2003
NCPCR/PeaceWeb 2003 features intensive pre- and post- conference training
institutes on April 2, 8, and 9, 2003. The conference offers nearly 200
workshops and training sessions; theatre; art; film; concerts; receptions;
celebrations; keynote speakers; and plenary sessions. The NCPCR/PeaceWeb Expo
offers demonstrations, exhibitions, vendors, and the PeaceWeb Book Store.
For more information visit the Conference Website.
**Application Deadline for Visiting Residential Fellowship
For details visit the
CCHR Visiting Residential Fellowship Website.
PROGRAM (Estimated Times)
Sunday, March 23, 2003
The rest of the afternoon reserved for individual discussion and
activities according to participants interests.
Information:
Sponsored by California Teachers Associaton
Contact the Human Rights Department for information:
See Conference
Website for details.
University of
Nottingham Human Rights Law Centre Website
The State Department's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons
(G/TIP) is soliciting nominations for international participants at the
conference.
Nominees will be picked from those who can show sustained, practical
achievements in combating trafficking in a country outside the United
States. To nominate an international participant, please fill out both
pages of the form available on the website below. Final decisions on
participants will be based on demonstrated achievement, as well as the need for geographic diversity
and varying areas of expertise.
Please submit fully completed nomination forms to the U.S. Department of
State's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons by
Wednesday, November 27, 2002, preferably via email at
tipevents@state.gov or via fax at (202) 312-9637. This form is available
electronically at the website.
Sponsored by: The Department of State, in partnership with the
non-governmental War Against Trafficking Alliance
The conference will include speeches by death penalty experts and
exonerated death row inmates, and workshops on issues such as race,
innocence, and juvenile executions.
Information: email morgangmac@hotmail.com or phone at 410-303-7376
A conference hosted by the Disability Studies and Research Institute
(DSaRI) in conjunction with the Social Relations Of Disability Research Network
(SRDRN)
See conference
flyer for details.
Information: Katie Marts, Conference Organizer - amnesty@gwu.edu or
See Free Burma
Coaliton Website for conference schedule and registration details.
For detailed information visit the conference
website.
Or contact The Civil Rights Project 617-496-6367
Or email: colorlines@law.harvard.edu
August 10 - 17, 2003
Istanbul, Turkey
August 7 - 10, 2003
Humanities Research Centre
Old Canberra House, Lennox Crossing
Building 73
The Australian National University
Canberra, Australia
July 31 - August 1, 2003
The Hotel Pennsylvania
New York City, NY
RIGHTS in SIGHT Summit
Professor and Former Senator Paul Simon
Coleman McCarthy, Center for Teaching Peace
Marian Wright Edleman, Children's Defense Fund
There is no registration fee and participants will be provided with
written materials and a continental breakfast and lunch each day.
For discounted hotel rooms for Summit participants, please contact
Paraz@aiusa.org.
Amnesty International, in collaboration with other national, regional and
local educational organizations.
July 31 - August 3, 2003
YAK will be held on a local college campus
(to be announced in June)
Baltimore MD
July 9, 2003, 9:30am - 6:00pm
London Metropolitan University, North Campus
Tower Building, Henry Thomas Room
Holloway Road, London, England
A one-day conference
Professor Bill Bowring (London Metropolitan University)
Professor Bill Jordan (University of Exeter and London Met)
Dr. Saladin Meckled-Garcia (University College London)
Dr. Suman Gupta (Centre for Research in Human Rights, Roehampton
Institute)
Dr. Maurice Glassman (London Metropolitan University)
Dr. John Strawson (University of East London)
Dr. Gino Naldi (Norwich Law School, University of East Anglia)
Dr. Svetlana Stephenson (London Metropolitan University)
Dr. Jeff Hass (University of Reading)
Dr. Jacqueline Laing (London Metropolitan University)
Dr. Rafik Abdessalem Bouchlaka
Alberta Stephens (Sierra Leone Women's Forum)
Dr Paul Gready (Institute for Commonwealth Studies)
Dan Shaham, Director of Public Affairs, Israeli Embassy
The Political Content of Human Rights
Human Rights: Foundations and Limits
Social Rights as Human Rights
Human Rights, Democracy and the Mass Media
Palestine and Self-Determination in late Colonialism: the problem of law's
occupations
Human Rights Provisions of the Constitutive
Act of the African Union
Homelessness, human rights and regulation of space in Russia.
Lee Salter
School of Law, Governance and International Relations
London Metropolitan University,
62-66 Highbury Grove,
London,
N5 2AD
July 4 - 5, 2003
The Conference Centre at Church House
Westminster, London, UK
A JUSTICE Conference
Susie Alegre
Senior Legal Officer - EU Criminal Justice
JUSTICE
59 Carter Lane
London
EC4V 5AQ
Fax: +44 (0) 20 7329 5055
July 1 - 4, 2003
Byron Bay Community Centre
Byron Bay NSW, Australia
Local and Global Voices
Southern Cross University
June 28 - 29, 2003
University of Leicester, Fielding Johnson Building
University Road, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK
* Human Rights
* Regionalization
* Globalization
* Interdisciplinary Context
June 27 - 28, 2003
University of Nottingham
Human Rights Law Centre
Nottingham, United Kingdom
June 15 - 18, 2003
University of Jyväskylä
Jyväskylä, Finland
Teaching and Learning for Intercultural Understanding, Human Rights and a
Culture of Peace
Institute for Educational Research
University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
in cooperation with UNESCO
May 16 - 17, 2003
Mofid University
Sadooq. Avenue
Qom, Iran
Second International Conference on Human Rights
the International Center for Dialogue among Civilizations
Sadooq.Ave., Qom, IRAN
P.O.Box: 37185-3611
Tel: +98-251-2925764
Fax: +98-251-2911072 ; 2927395
E-mails: TFHR@mofidu.ac.ir , TFHR@hotmail.com
April 25 - 26, 2003
University College of London
London, England
School of Public Policy
University College London,
29-30 Tavistock Square,
London WC1H 9QU
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/spp
Tel: +44 20 7679 4990
Fax: +44 20 7679 4969
email: b.cali@ucl.ac.uk
April 11 - 13, 2003
American University
Cairo, Egypt
While most of the literature on refugee and forced migrant flows has been on
humanitarian emergencies, settlement in camps, and resettlement in
the north, the vast majority of refugees (some estimate up to 80%) are
self-settled, i.e. not living in camps and many drawn to
the teeming urban centers of host countries in the South. As one of its
program goals, FMRS is interested in redressing the imbalance in what
is known about urban refugee populations through supporting research and
collecting relevant literature local refugee communities in cities of the
Middle East, Africa and other southern regions. In particular,
the FMRS focus on refugee livelihoods, especially in urban settings, has
brought home a number of methodological and ethical issues on how to carry out
research among populations who reside often without papers, under-represented
by NGOs, and, even when residing legally, without a significant voice at
the level of policy making.
Forced Migration and Refugee Studies
The American University in Cairo
113 Kar El Aini Street
PO Box 25000
Cairo 11511, Egypt
Telephone: (202) 7976626, Fax: (202) 7976629
April 3 - 7, 2003
Sheraton Gateway Hotel - Atlanta Airport
College Park, GA
"Weaving The Future of Peacemaking"
**March 28, 2003
Notre Dame Law School
Center for Civil and Human Rights
Notre Dame, Illinois
March 22 - 23, 2003
Prague, Czech Republic
Saturday, March 22, 2003
9;30 am - Registration
10:00 am - Plenary Session
" Europe in a World of permanently sustainable peace"
I. PRESENT SITUATION AND ITS CAUSES
II. HOW EUROPE OF PERMANENTLY SUSTAINBLE PEACE SHOULD LOOK LIKE
III. HOW TO ACHIEVE SUCH A EUROPE
12:30pm - Lunch
2:30 pm - Sightseeing walk through the historical center of Praha
5:00 pm - Continuation with the plenary session
7:30 pm - Conference dinner
9:00 am - Continuation with the plenary session
12:00 noon - Lunch
1:30 pm - Discussion in groups
Group 1: Economy and ecology fields
Group 2: Political, social and health care fields
Group 3: Culture, education and information fields
Group 4: International relations and military fields
Czech Peace Society
Londynska 14, 120 00 Praha 2, Czech Republic
E-mail: czechpeace@volny.cz
Record/FAX: 420 233 335 616
Telephone mobile: (420)603 934 184)
February 28 - March 2, 2003
San Francisco Airport Marriott
Burlingame, California
Diversity Makes All the Difference
1705 Murchison Drive
Burlingame, CA 94010
650-697-1400 x5313
*February 28, 2003
Trafficking in Persons Conference
June 27 - 28, 2003
Human Rights Law Centre
University of NottinghamFebruary 23 - 26, 2003
Washington, D. C.
"Pathbreaking Strategies in the Global Fight Against Sex
Trafficking"
February 22, 2003, 11:00am -
5:00pm
Howard Law School, Houston Hall
2900 Van Ness Street N. W.
Washington, D. C.
February 21, 2003, 10:00am -
4:00pm
The Council Chamber, Chancellery Building
University of New South Wales
Gate 9, High Street, Kensington
Sydney, Australia
February 14 - 16, 2003
George Washington University
The Marvin Center, 3rd Floor
800 21st Street N. W.
Washington, D. C.
Burma, Country of Courage
the Free Burma Coalition - info@freeburmacoalition.org
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