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<div><font size="+1" color="#800080"><b>Activating Human Rights and
Peace</b></font></div>
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</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> 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 and speakers
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>
<div><font color="#000000"><b>"Making the Universal Declaration
of Human Rights a Reality - Sixty Years On".</b></font><br>
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<div><font color="#000000"><b>Margaret Ward</b></font>, Xinxing Aid
for Street Kids, Shaanxi Province, China</div>
<div><font color="#000000"><b>"Street Children of
China"</b></font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000"><b>Jean Paul Mugiraneza</b></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><b>"Transitional Justice and Managing
Political Space in Post-Genocide Rwanda"</b></font></div>
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<div><b>Dr Sev Ozdowski OAM,</b> Australian Human Rights
Commissioner (2000-05) Director, Equity and Diversity, University of
Western Sydney</div>
<div><font color="#000000"><b>"Human Rights and the Beijing
Olympics"</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><font color="#000000"><b>Professor Colleen Cartwright,</b>
Southern Cross University</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><b>"Human Rights at the End of Life: a
Cross-National Comparison"</b></font></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><font color="#000000"><b>"Educaring as a response to layered
colonial trauma: Australia and East Timor"</b></font></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>Ilana Meallem and Mutassim Abu El Hawa</b>, The Arava
Institute for Environmental Studies, Kibbutz Ketura, Israel</div>
<div><font color="#000000">"<i><b>Shared Concerns in a Region of
Conflict - Environmental Cooperation as a Tool for Building Peace</b>
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<div><b>Professor Raj Kumar</b>,<b> City University of Hong
Kong</b></div>
<div><b>"Natural Disasters and their Challenges for Human Rights,
Democracy and Good</b></div>
<div><b>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, University of Queensland</div>
<div><font color="#000000"><b>"New Wars-Old Wars: Demand creative
21st century solutions"</b></font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000"><b>Tjanara Goreng Goreng</b></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><b>"Breaking the Cycle of Generational
Abuse and Dysfunction: Aboriginal Children and their Right to Grow up
in Healthy Functional Families</b><font
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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 130 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> by Christopher Newell
and Baden Offord (eds)</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>REGISTRATIONS OPEN</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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<div><font color="#000000">Last conference:
http://www.scu.edu.au/research/cpsj/human_rights_2003/index.html</font
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