"FROM RHETORIC TO REALITY: MAKING HUMAN RIGHTS WORK" RMIT UNIVERSITY, MELBOURNE, 9 + 10 FEBRUARY, 2004
from rhetoric to reality Will provide an opportunity to engage with the practice of human rights in our own communities. Over two days, service providers, educators, advocates and service users will come together in workshops, facilitated discussions and plenary sessions. The conference will build the capacity of participants to make human rights work in their everyday practice. plenary sessions Inspiring speakers will provide an overview of human rights concepts and mechanisms, including the United Nations Treaty System, human rights in the Australian context, and human rights in the context of service delivery. keynote speakers Include paul hunt, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health; marcia rioux, Director of Disability Promotion Rights International and Professor of Health Policy at York University, Canada; krishanti dharmaraj, Executive Director of WILD for Human Rights, San Francisco (to be confirmed); and jim ife, Chair of the Centre for Human Rights Education at Curtin University of Technology. organisational case studies Will focus on the ways that community groups and governments have put human rights into practice in their organisational development, funding processes, policy advocacy and service delivery. personal testimonies Will highlight the ways that people in our community defend and promote their human rights, making the link between international human rights frameworks and domestic experiences. small group workshops Will provide all conference participants with the opportunity to develop strategies to apply human rights to their own organisational development, policy advocacy and service delivery work. sponsored by RMIT University Community Advocacy Unit, Victorian Department of Human Services, VicHealth and the Human Rights Alliance of Australia. further information Early bird registrations close Monday 8 December. Further details from http://advocacy.tce.rmit.edu.au <http://advocacy.tce.rmit.edu.au/> . <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archived at http://www.cat.org.au/lists/leftlink/ Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Sub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
