Derechos: Human Rights Listings

The Arab Center for Independence of the Judiciary and the Legal Profession organizes a legal conference on "guarantees the independence of the Egyptian State Council" on (Wednesday) March 4, 2009 Flamenco Hotel, Zamalek (2 El Gezzera Elwosta St., - Zamalek) at 09.00 a.m.

This conference – funded by Konrad Adenauer Foundation - presents many research papers prepared by specialist judges, lawyers, law professors and activists in the field of human rights.

Geneva International Conference Center, April 19, 2009

Featuring:

Bo Kyi
Saad Eddin Ibrahim
Nazanin Afshin-Jam
Ahmad Batebi
Ester Mujawayo
José Castillo
Irwin Cotler

Register

During the week of April 20-24, 2009, hundreds of world leaders, diplomats, and human rights activists will gather in Geneva for the United Nations Durban Review Conference on Racism, Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance. Mired in controversy, the gathering known as Durban II is already one the most high profile U.N. events in history.

The Human Rights Project and the Center for Curatorial Studies
at Bard College invite you to join us at a one-day conference on

MUSIC AND TORTURE

to be held in conjunction with the opening of, and taking place at, Olafur Eliasson's "Parliament of Reality" installation, on Friday 15 May.

Schedule of speakers

10:30AM Opening remarks

10:45AM Chloe Davies, Reprieve and ZeroDB (London)
on music torture

11:30AM David Peisner, SPIN Magazine
"Bring The Noise: How music found its way into American
interrogation booths"

12:15PM John Hamilton, Comparative Literature, NYU
"Torture as an Instrument of Music" (on the brazen bull of
Phalaris)

1:00PM LUNCH + ZeroDB silent protest recording session

2:00PM Thomas Levin, German, Princeton University
"Diabolus in Musica: A Playdoyer for Painful Sounds"

2:45PM Branden Joseph, Art History, Columbia University
"Biomusic"

3:30PM Keynote address by Mark Danner, Chace Professor of Foreign
Affairs, Politics, and Humanities

4:15PM Roundtable discussion moderated by Suzanne Cusick, Music, NYU

5:00PM Closing remarks

In the event of rain, all events will take place in the Multipurpose Room, Bertelsmann Campus Center.

Additional support for the conference provided by the Goethe-Institut New York.

For info call Danielle Riou (riou@bard.edu, 845 758 7110)

AMNESTIES, IMMUNITIES AND PROSECUTIONS:
INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON INCENTIVISING TRUTH RECOVERY

We are very pleased to announce an international conference to take place in Belfast in June
2009, Beyond Legalism: Amnesties, Transition and Conflict Transformation. The conference
is the culmination of ongoing research in the School of Law, Queen’s University Belfast on
the theme of the role of amnesties in conflict transformation, involving extensive fieldwork in
Argentina, Bosnia-Herzegovina, South Africa, Uganda and Uruguay during 2008. This
conference will look in particular at the ways in which ex-combatants, former members of the
security forces and others can be incentivised to engage in truth recovery processes.

Research and Narratives

Centre for Applied Human Rights, University of York (UK)
9-11 September 2009

This international conference will launch an important new journal: the Journal of
Human Rights Practice. It is hosted by the Centre for Applied Human Rights,
University of York (UK), and Oxford University Press, in collaboration with Amnesty
International, the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture, and Panos
London.

February 12-13, 2010, 8:30am-5:00pm
Location: Yale University Law School, 127 Wall Street, New Haven, CT
Cost: General public - $75; Non Yale Student/Faculty - $25.

The Access to Knowledge and Human Rights Conference seeks to lay the groundwork - conceptual and strategic - to build bridges between the A2K and human rights communities pursuing common goals of promoting greater access to knowledge, culture, technology and tools for innovation worldwide.

Conference: Fratricide (25 - 26 February 2010) Human Rights Consortium, School of Advanced Study, University of London

This interdisciplinary conference will explore the causes and consequences of neighbourly atrocities across history, cultures, and continents and is part of a Mellon Sawyer seminar series: "Fratricide and Fraternite: Understanding and Repairing Neighbourly Atrocitiy."

The conference is free but advance registration is required. For further information and to register please visit http://www.sas.ac.uk/733.html

With this message, TISCO (Tilburg Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies of Civil Law and Conflict Resolution Systems) and HiiL (Hague Institute for the Internationalisation of Law) are pleased to inform you about upcoming International conference under the title: Measuring Access to Justice and Legal Empowerment of the poor. The two-day meeting will take place in The Hague on 26-27 April, 2010 (specific venue and detailed program TBA).

Centre for Human Righs and Legal Pluralism
Centre sur les droits de la personne et le pluralisme juridique
3644 Peel Street
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
H3A 1W9
Tel: (514) 398-3577
Fax: (514) 398-8197
Email: youngleaders.law@
mcgill.ca
HUMAN RIGHTS IN DIVERSE SOCIETIES
International Forum for Young Leaders
Call for Applications
The Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism proudly announces The Global Conference on Human Rights
in Diverse Societies, to be held at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, October 7th to 9th, 2010. This will
be the second Echenberg Family Conference on Human Rights. Following the precedent established by the frst
Conference, a Young Leaders Forum will be organized in conjunction with the event.