One more January event

The Northwestern University Conference on Human Rights (NUCHR) will hold its annual conference on 20-23 January 2011. The theme is "Human Rights in Transit: Issues of Forced Migration." Here's the blurb:

We hope to utilize this theme to analyze the role of borders on the universality of human rights, and more specifically to discuss the obligation of the country of origin and the host country to protect and preserve the rights of migrants. Speakers and delegates will examine forced migration from the perspective of multiple actors to highlight all who are affected by this phenomenon. We hope to question responsibility in the application of human rights (i.e. who is obligated to ensure the rights of refugees and what measures of enforcement do and should exist). Through our case study panel that will explore the issues of migration across the US-Mexico border panelists will be asked to challenge conventional definitions of refugees and forced migration while examining human rights violations in our own country. Finally, delegates will break up into small groups throughout the three-day conference to discuss specific case studies of forced migration and apply the framework developed by the panels of the conference to these individual scenarios.

Barbara Harrell-Bond and Rose Mapendo are slated to give keynote addresses. A number of other migration and human rights experts will also be speaking at the event. For more information, contact conferenceonhumanrights@u.northwestern.edu.

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