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Jean Cardinale is the head of the UConn Libraries' Public Programming, Marketing & Communications efforts.

International Human Rights Exchange (IHRE) for Undergraduate Students

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International Human Rights Exchange (IHRE)
Johannesburg, South Africa
June 28 – November 16, 2009

IHRE is the only study abroad program to offer a fully integrated, liberal-arts-style curriculum in human rights open to both U.S. and South African (as well as other international) undergraduate students. The semester program promotes a critical understanding of human rights as a part of a broad intellectual and social movement, not simply as a code or set of laws, but a discourse in transformation and often in contest, extending to the humanities, social sciences, arts and sciences. The program is run by Bard College in partnership with the University of Witswatersrand (Wits) in Johannesburg and offers 16 credits of human rights-related coursework as well as the opportunity to participate in a fascinating internship with a local NGO in Johannesburg.

The IHRE program consists of two core courses: Human Rights: Perspectives from the Disciplines and Engagement in Human Rights. Students may also choose from 11 different electives on a wide range of human rights topics, such as Gender and Human Rights; Human Rights and African Literature; Human Rights and the Media; and Philosophy of Human Rights, among others. Students also have the potential to take regular Wits courses offered by the Humanities department. The internship option is an especially attractive and unique component of the IHRE program. As one student who recently interned at Zimbabwe’s Action for Conflict Transformation Center notes: “My internship experience provided a platform for me to practice what I am learning in the human rights course and acted as a stepping stone for me towards promoting human rights to achieve sustainable development.”

The IHRE application deadline is March 1, 2009. Applications for semester study are competitive and processed on a rolling basis. For more information on the program, please visit the following website: http://www.ihre.org  

Graduate Student Human Rights Conference at UConn

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CALL FOR PAPERS:  “Human Rights: Ideals and Realities”

Saturday, April 4, 2009

UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT, STORRS

* DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: FEBRUARY 16, 2009 *

The second annual multidisciplinary Graduate Human Rights Conference will be held on Saturday, April 4, 2009 at the Dodd Research Center at the University of Connecticut. The conference aims to bring together graduate students interested in human rights, from multiple disciplines, to present and share their research interests. The conference will include a keynote address as well as complimentary breakfast and lunch.

Keynote Speaker: Joshua Rubenstein, Northeast Regional Director of Amnesty International USA and Associate at Harvard’s Davis Center for Eurasian and Russian Studies. 

Panel Themes: The conference encourages interdisciplinary social science, law, and humanities approaches to understanding human rights issues. Panel themes may include, but are certainly not limited to, the following:

  • Economic Rights
  • Education and Human Rights
  • Environmental Rights
  • Foundations of Human Rights
  • Gender and Human Rights
  • Group Rights
  • Human Rights and International Law
  • Humanitarianism

If you would like to present a paper, please submit the following information to the Human Rights Institute at humanrights at uconn.edu by February 6, 2009:

– YOUR FULL NAME

– INSTITUTIONAL AFFILIATION

– E-MAIL, POSTAL ADDRESS, and TEL. NO.

– PAPER TITLE

– 300-WORD PAPER ABSTRACT

Please feel free to contact humanrights at uconn.edu if you have any further questions regarding the conference.

Changes to UConn Library Website

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Happy Spring Semester!

You’ve probably noticed that the UConn Libraries website has a whole new look– http://lib.uconn.edu 

Since some things have moved around, I wanted to take a moment and point out the links to some human rights resources:

The Human Rights Research Guide:  http://classguides.lib.uconn.edu/humanrights

The Human Rights Research Guide is redesigned for the Spring semester, and has information on how to find human rights journals, databases, reference books, archival collections, films, websites and more!

The Human Rights Research Database Locator: http://rdl.lib.uconn.edu/subjects/2096

The Research Database Locator for Human Rights provides links to the most popular databases for finding arcticles on an array of human rights themes.

50 Human Rights Blogs Worth Checking Out

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Laura Milligan of e-Justice has created a list of The Top 50 Human Rights Blogs, broken down into categories such as Civil Liberties, Capital Punishment, Children’s Rights, International Outreach, General, Religion, Whistleblowers, and Politics.

A few Human Rights Blogs included in the list:

ACLU Blog of Rights: The American Civil Liberties Union posts about legislation, issues and campaigns that protect, influence and threaten civil liberties and freedom.

Labor is not a Commodity: This international labor rights blog covers child labor, underpaid workers and more.

Human Rights Now: The Amnesty International USA blog reports on global and regional conflicts, torture, progressive legislation and a lot more.

AlterNet: AlterNet’s Rights and Liberties blog covers everything from current political events to everyday human rights violations in lesser known areas.

Stop Genocide: Stop Genocide is a well-organized resource that shares news stories, tips for teaching about genocide, commentary and predictions about the state of human rights.

PhD Studies in Human Rights: This blog is designed for PhD students but is a great resource for anyone wanting to find news and reference material related to human rights issues.

New UNESCO Report on Historical and Contemporary Slavery

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A New UNESCO/WISE publication: Unfinished Business: A Comparative Survey of Historical and Contemporary Slavery

 

By Dr Joel Quirk, Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation (WISE), University of Hull. 

 

The full report is avaliable as a free pdf download at

http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=38451&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

 

 

Abstract:

 

Interest in contemporary slavery has increased dramatically over the last ten years, but there remains a widespread tendency to view slavery in the past and slavery in current society as independent fields of study. This publication moves beyond this artifical divide, providing the first ever comparative analysis of historical slave systems and modern forms of human bondage. From this standpoint, recent concerns over human trafficking, debt-bondage, child labor and other related problems are analyzed in view of the historical strengths and weaknesses of the legal abolition of slavery. By bringing together a range of studies on different aspects of slavery, both past and present, this publication provides an innovative platform for promoting dialogue about ways of addressing both contemporary slavery and the enduring legacies of historical slave systems.

New UDHR Website

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The United Nations Dag Hammarskjöld Library has launched a new web site, Universal Declaration of Human Rights : An Historical Record of the Drafting Process (http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/udhr/) as part of the commemoration of the 60th Anniversary of the Declaration.  The site provides access to early United Nations documents related to the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The new web site is a joint digitization project of the UN Dag Hammarskjöld Library and the Library of the UN Office at Geneva.

Screening of Documentary, “Health For Sale” at UConn Med School

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Wed, December 17th

5-8pm

UConn Health Center- Patterson Auditorium Farmington, CT

 

FREE!  

 

Refreshments will be provided. 

 

IMPAX and AMSA invite you to join us for our last film event of this year for the AMSA Pharm-Free week.

 

Film Synopsis:  The film focuses on Big Pharma, the ten largest pharmaceutical makers, who account for 500 billion dollars of world health spending a year. Officials from all sides debate the impact of drug companies’ patenting, “intellectual property,” pricing and new product development strategies on global public health.

 

Film followed by Panel Discussion:

Zita Lazzarini, JD  

Kevin Dieckhaus, MD

Robert L. McCarthy, Ph.D.

Thomas Buckley, B.S., M.P.H.

 

Directions:  263 Farmington Ave. Farmington CT 06032.  Enter at the Academic Entrance and park anywhere. 

Fulfilling the Promise of Human Rights: Conference at Quinnipiac University

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The Connecticut Coalition for Human Rights is pleased to present…

Fulfilling the Promise of Human Rights: the Universal Declaration at 60

a statewide conference marking the 60th anniversary of the UDHR

Featuring…
U.S. Representative John Conyers, Jr.

Saturday, December 6th from 8:30 to 4pm  
Quinnipiac University in Hamden, CT

The CT Coalition for Human Rights is honored to have U.S. Representative John Conyers, Jr. of the 14th District of Michigan deliver the keynote address on December 6th in honor of the 60th Anniversary of the UDHR.  Representative Conyers has devoted 43 years in the U.S. House of Representatives for “jobs, justice and peace” for the people of Michigan’s 14th District and the country as a whole.  He has long been a champion for civil rights as one of the founding members of the Congressional Black Caucus and as Chairman of the pivotal House Committee on the Judiciary.  His legislative accomplishments include: the Violence Against Women Act of 1994, the Motor Voter Bill of 1993, the Martin Luther King Holiday Act of 1983, and the Help America Vote Act of 2002. 

Register now at http://www.udhr.net 

Please join the Coalition on December 6th at Quinnipiac University to celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and continue the statewide effort to promote and implement human rights as enshrined in the UDHR throughout Connecticut and throughout the United States. 

 

Organizational Sponsors of the CT Coalition for Human Rights

AFL-CIO, Albert Schweitzer Institute, Quinnipiac University; American Civil Liberties Union of CT; American Friends Service Committee; American Immigrant Lawyers Association; Amistad Committee; Amnesty International, CT; City of New Haven Peace Commission; Connecticut Bar Association, Connecticut Center for a New Economy, Connecticut Citizen Action Group; Connecticut Communist Party; Connecticut Education Association; Connecticut Federation of Teachers; Connecticut Network to Abolish the Death Penalty; Connecticut Permanent Commission on the Status of Women; Connecticut State Conference – American Association of University Professors; Connecticut United for Peace; Connecticut Women’s Educational and Legal Fund; Eastern Coalition for Peace and Justice;  Greater Hartford Coalition on Cuba; Greater New Haven Central Labor Council; Greater New Haven Peace Council; Human Rights Institute, University of Connecticut; Integrated Refugee & Immigrant Services; Love 146; Love Makes a Family; NAACP-New Haven; National Association of Social Workers; National Organization for Women; Northeast Connecticut for Peace & Justice; Pax Educare; Planned Parenthood of Connecticut, Promoting an Enduring Peace; Third Sector New England; Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut; United Nations Association, CT Division; Vecinos Unidos; We Refuse to Be Enemies; Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom

For more information about the CT Coalition for Human Rights please visit http://www.udhr.net or email rebecca.lenn@ppct.org.

Human Rights & Human Welfare (HRHW) Launches new blog

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Remember to go vote today!

Human Rights & Human Welfare (HRHW) is pleased to announce the launch of their new interactive blog, http://www.hrhw.org/

Human Rights & Human Welfare (HRHW) is an online journal published through the Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver. HRHW posts content in five sections, all unique forms of literature review: Review Essays, Book Notes, the Roundtable, Topical Research Digest and Working Papers. All of the content, since inception in 2001, is archived on the website and all is available free of charge. Please visit Human Rights & Human Welfare online at www.du.edu/korbel/hrhw. To subscribe to receive HRHW‘s monthly update newsletter, click here.