Innovative On-line Human Rights Seminar
Launches at end of February 2006
The Spanish organisation, Documentation Sciences Foundation, has launched an on-line human rights conference covering a five-day period from the 27th February to the 3rd March. In order to reach as wide an audience as possible, the Foundation is using Interwise conferencing technology to broadcast the conference across the web.
The conference itself is loosely based around Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which covers “the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.”
The Seminar on human rights will be given by members of the Brussels–based European Foundation for Human Rights and Tolerance and will be focused around audiovisual to show how human rights education can be effectively performed using modern communication media.
This conference takes this theme and taking advantage of the benefits of the world wide web, plans to get a broad cross section of people involved in the subject. With the participation of different national and international institutions as organizers and collaborators, the Documentation Sciences Foundation have directed their efforts as a whole to carry out this Seminar, where the role of Information Technology towards human rights will be discussed.
The Seminar is to be held annually, focusing on a particular area every year, serving as a stimulus for the collaboration and the exchange of ideas between multidisciplinary professionals from all over the world interested in the Information Technology and its relation with Human Rights.
Mr. Jose Raul Vaquero, President of the Documentation Sciences Foundation said, “I am especially proud to be part of the team that is developing this ground-breaking technology for human rights purposes. The possibilities to help people through the Internet are extensive and I think that through holding this seminar, along with others we plan to do, we will be laying a path for others to follow.”
For registration and further information, please visit www.documentalistas.org/seminario o email human.rights@documentalistas.org