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<div><font color="#800080"><b>HURRY! - EARLY BIRD REGISTRATIONS CLOSE
31 MAY</b></font></div>
<div>FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS</div>
<div><font color="#800080"><b>(see below for details)</b></font></div>
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<div><font size="+1" color="#800080"><b>Activating Human Rights and
Peace</b></font></div>
<div><font color="#800080"><b><br>
</b></font><font color="#000000"><b>An International Conference<br>
1-4 July 2008<br>
Byron Bay Community and Cultural Centre</b>,</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><b>Byron Bay NSW,
Australia</b></font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000">On the previous Activating Human Rights
Conference in 2003:</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Professor Monica McWilliams, University of
Ulster, and Chief Commissioner for Human Rights in Northern Ireland
says:<i><b> The interdisciplinary nature of this conference was the
best example I have seen anywhere in the world of a conference
involving academics, media producers, community and political
representatives and local activists.</b></i></font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000"><b>Confirmed Keynotes
2008:</b></font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000"><b>Justice Michael Kirby</b></font>,<font
color="#000000"><b> High Court of Australia</b></font></div>
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<div><b>Professor Michael Davis</b>, Chinese University of Hong
Kong</div>
<div><b>"Crisis in Tibet: Searching for a Workable
Solution"</b></div>
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<div>Associate Professor<b> Christopher Newell</b>, University of
Tasmania</div>
<div><b>"Human Rights: Our Personal, Political and Professional
Quest"</b></div>
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<div><b>Dr Aruna Gopinath</b> Head, Dept of Politics &
International Relations, HELP University College, Malaysia</div>
<div><b>"Democracy and Human Rights in Southeast Asia: Rhetoric
and Reality"</b></div>
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<div><b>Professor Judy Atkinson,</b> Gnibi the College of Indigenous
Australian Peoples.</div>
<div><b>"Indigenous Rights / Indigenous Healing"</b></div>
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<div><b>Dr Dede Oetomo,</b> Airlangga University and Founder, Gaya
Nusantara, Indonesia</div>
<div><b>"Activating LGBTI Rights in Indonesia: Reconstructing Our
Understanding of Human Rights and Peace".</b><br>
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<div><b>Mutassim Abu El Hawa</b>, The Arava Institute for
Environmental Studies, Kibbutz Ketura, Israel</div>
<div><b>"Fighting over Borders in a Borderless
Environment"</b></div>
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<div><b>Ilana Meallem,</b> The Arava Institute for Environmental
Studies, Kibbutz Ketura, Israel</div>
<div><b>"The Exposure of Bedouin Women to Waste Related Hazards:
Gender, Toxins, and Multiple Marginality in the Negev
(Israel)</b>"</div>
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<div><b>Professor Raj Kumar</b>,<b> City University of Hong
Kong</b></div>
<div><b>"Natural Disasters and its Challenges for Human Rights,
Democracy and Good<br>
Governance"</b></div>
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<div><b>Professor Adrien Wing,</b> University of Iowa Law School,
USA</div>
<div><b>"Global Critical Race Feminism: Race, Gender, and human
rights in the US elections"</b></div>
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<div><b>Professor Kevin Clements, </b> Australian Centre for
Peace and Conflict Studies.</div>
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<div>Professor Bee Chen Goh, School of Law and Justice, Southern Cross
University.</div>
<div><b>"An International Peace Charter"</b></div>
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<div><font color="#000000">A highlight of this year's conference will
also be a focus on human rights, peace and the environment, and human
rights and education.</font> Over 100 paper and workshop
presentations.</div>
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<div><font color="#000000">There will be a special Book Launch by
Professor Gerard Goggin of<i> Activating Human Rights and Education:
Innovation, Exploration and Transformation</i></font>, a Human Rights
Concert and Human Rights Film Festival, and a Special Women's Forum on
"Perspectives on Peace".</div>
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<div><font color="#000000"><b>EARLY BIRD REGISTRATIONS CLOSE 31
MAY</b></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><b>Waged or Unwaged / Student
Rates</b></font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000"><b>Register Online at:</b></font></div>
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>http://www.scu.edu.au/research/cpsj/human_rights/index.html</font></div
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<div><font color="#000000">Last conference:
http://www.scu.edu.au/research/cpsj/human_rights_2003/index.html</font
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<div>FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS:</div>
<div>Send a 200 word abstract with 80 word bio to: Dr Rob Garbutt
<rgarbutt@scu.edu.au></div>
<div>Panel sessions still open on Sexuality, Interfaith, LGBTI rights,
Human rights theory, media and new technology, Burma, and contexts of
human rights.</div>
<div>Deadline: 31 May 2008.</div>
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