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Conference Announcement
"Celebrating 60 years of the Universal Declaration
of Human Rights"
International Conference
New Zealand Centre for Public Law
Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law
Victoria University of Wellington
Wellington (New Zealand)
9-10 December 2008
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In 1948 New Zealand played a constructive and noticed role
in assisting towards the formulation of the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). That involvement, like
its outcome, we believe warrants suitable recognition in
this the 60th anniversary year of the UDHR. The aims of this
conference include:
- An evaluation of 60 years of the UDHR as a living
document.
- An opportunity for scholars and human rights practitioners
to expound their findings and concerns over contemporary
human rights issues, particularly (but not exclusively) as
they affect New Zealand.
- An opportunity to identify the key human rights challenges
confronting the global community into the immediate and
longer term future.
Looking to the next sixty years, the organisers are keen to
have youth and student participation actively facilitated at
all levels of proceedings.
Programme:
9 December 2008
8:00am Arrival and enrolment
9:00am Welcome
9:05am Powhiri
9:15am Opening Statements
9:30am Judge Kenneth Keith
Comments in Retrospective: 60 years since the UDHR
10:00am Professor Hilary Charlesworth
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 60.
Older and wiser?
11:00am Morning Tea
11:15am Justice MacAuley
Human Rights in the Inter-American system
12:00pm Professor Ratna Kapur
Whither Human Rights?
12:45pm Lunch
1:45pm Dr Elizabeth Stanley
Securing human rights through transitional justice
2:30pm Chief Human Rights Commissioner Rosslyn Noonan
Reporting Progress on New Zealand Human Rights
3:30pm Afternoon tea
4:00pm Plenary discussion (interactive with audience)
Sir Kenneth Keith, Justice Macauley, Professor Ratna
Kapur, Dr Elizabeth Stanley, and Chief Human Rights
Commissioner Rosslyn Noonan reflect on:
Human rights after 60 years of the UDHR: Responsible
custodians?
5:00pm Conclude day one
10 December 2008
9:00am Open day two
9:00am Professor Emeritus David Mullan
The duty to consult aboriginal peoples: the Canadian
example
9:45am Dr Stephen James
A right to welfare
10.30am Tim ODonovan
A new development assistance initiative in the field
of sexual and reproductive rights
11:00am Morning Tea
11:15am Natalie Baird
The domestic application of international human
rights rules and norms with reference to the South
Pacific
12:00pm Claudia Geiringer
The jurisdiction to grant declarations of
legislative inconsistency with rights in New Zealand
under both the Human Rights Act and the Bill of
Rights
12:45pm Lunch
1:45pm Dr Petra Butler
Future challenges facing human rights in New Zealand
2:30pm Panel discussion
Ben Keith, Alberto Costi, Matthew Frost
Current International Human Rights Issues
3:45pm Afternoon tea
4:00pm Presentations by Youth Human Rights essay finalists
4:30pm Ced Simpson
Building Human Rights communities in New Zealand
education
5:15pm Concluding conference statements
Claudia Geiringer, Professor Hilary Charlesworth
Contact:
Centres and Events Administrator
NZ Centre for Public Law
Victoria University of Wellington
PO Box 600
Wellington
New Zealand
Tel: +64-4-463-6327
Fax: +64-4-463-6365
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.victoria.ac.nz/nzcpl/events/e1008.aspx
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