Posted on 3-2-2003

Re-activation, Human Rights Conference
Hosted by the Centre for Law, Politics and Culture, Southern Cross
University, NSW, Australia.

Confirmed Keynotes: Professor Monica McWilliams (Ireland), Professor
Raimond Gaita (Aust), Chee Soon Juan (Singapore), Dita Indah Sari
(Indonesia), Professor Costas Douzinas (UK), Dr Sev Ozdowsky (Aust),
Charlene Smith (South Africa), Melinda Jones (Aust), Professor Carl Stychin
(UK), Dr Lillian Holt and Dr Irene Watson (Aust). Planned opening with the
Governor, Professor Marie Bashir and The Honourable John Dowd. Planned
Endnote Speech by Peter Garrett.

Otherparticipants invited:

Basil Fernando, Executive Director, Asian Human Rights Commission, Hong
Kong. Natasha Stott-Despoja, Australian Democrats Senator. (confirmed)
Kerry Nettle, NSW Greens Senator. (Confirmed) Rodney Croome, sexuality
activist. (confirmed) Kay Schaffer (confirmed)

CALL FOR PAPERS:

www.scu.edu.au/research/clpc/human_rights/index.html

Local and Global Voices, Byron Bay, 1-4 July 2003.

This international conference is for everyone who cares passionately about
human rights, and who wishes to activate/re activate human rights and their
importance in the twenty-first century.

We hope the conference will provide a crucial and critical learning space
for activating human rights and diversity in relation to the fields of law,
culture, politics and health.

A major focus of the conference is to invite participants to exchange ideas
and experiences about human rights, questions of diversity and their
implications across these fields. The conference is interdisciplinary as
well as activist in approach.

We especially welcome papers that engage with significant and often
disregarded and unregarded areas of human rights activism. We also invite
papers which address relevant contemporary issues that have a significant
human rights dimension.

CALL FOR PAPERS*

Please send proposals for 20 minute papers, with a 200-word abstract by 1st
of March 2003 to: Dr Baden Offord, Centre for Law, Politics and Culture,
rofford@scu.edu.au

The conference will have a mix of plenary sessions with invited papers, and
panel sessions. The conference organisers welcome papers from academics,
researchers, activists, community groups and policy makers.


Draft Panel Sessions So far include:

…Refugees and Human Rights
… Indigenous Rights Cultural Contexts and Human Rights
… Romany peoples and human rightsWomen and Human Rights
… Disability Rights
… Buddhism and Human Rights
… New Media and Human Rights
… Journalism and Human Rights
… Amnesty International high school students presentation
… Sexuality and Human Rights
… Children's Rights Story-telling and Human Rights
… Health and Human Rights
… Asian Human Rights

POSSIBLE CONFERENCE TOPICS

The Conference welcomes contributions that are interdisciplinary in nature
and which are informed by the confluence of theory and practice. In
general, conference thematic matrix might include:

1. Gender &sexuality
2. East Timor
3. Disability and rights
4. Refugees and diaspora
5. Indigenous approaches
6. Rights and globalisation
7. Culture and representation
8. Citizenships of belonging and participation
9. Asia/Pacific issues
10. Sexual slavery
11. Torture and exploitation
12. Human rights methodologies
13. Exclusion/inclusion
14. New technologies & citizenship
15. Health care and human rights
16. Diversity & legal discourse
17. Rethinking human rights activism
18. The politics of human rights
19. Monocultural/multicultural realities
20. Religion &social activism
21. Music &human rights
22. Reproductive rights
23. Moving beyond anguish & trauma
24. Reconciliation &Healing
25. Stories of breaking the silence
26. Activate/Re-activate