[Bilimsel Haber] CONF. CFP: Human Rights in Global Perspective, 30 Sept.-1 Oct. 2011, Howard U (Wash. D.C.)

[Gonul Pultar]

*Human Rights in Global Perspective *
*Location:* 	United States 
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While the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the UN created 
the conditions for international mobilization of nation states and 
organizations to intensify the internationalization of human rights 
issues, it was not until the 1990s (post Cold War era) that we began to 
witness sustained efforts by increasing number of local human rights 
groups for an effective universal human rights agenda.

For several decades, the primary focus of human rights has been limited 
to issues around political prisoners, torture, refugees, and displaced 
persons. Decolonization and increasing demands for democratization 
across the developing world and Eastern Europe accelerated interest 
among local civil society groups, activists, academics, and human rights 
groups on broadening and strengthening the debate on the concept of 
universal human rights to include: the rights to a living income, to 
health, to food, housing and education, and to live in a world at peace.

Thus, today, across cultures around the globe, local human rights groups 
are pressing demands beyond the narrow confines of human rights 
definitions to include: child rights; women rights and the elimination 
of female circumcision; the rights of indigenous populations; the rights 
of ethnic, religious, and linguistic minorities; the rights to shelter 
and development; and economic and social justice. If human rights are 
not to become provincial and limited to the mere interests of the state 
and its organs, human rights dividends cannot occur through monologue, 
but rather through dialogue among humans across cultures.

This conference seeks to examine contemporary human rights issues from 
across the world and the effects of recent global transformations in 
strengthening the discourse on human rights. To this end, we plan to 
engage in a collaborative effort to present and later publish a 
comprehensive volume on human rights in global perspective.

The first part of the project will be a collaborative conference at 
Howard University (September 30- October 1, 2011).

Second, we will publish selected conference presentations in an edited 
volume. We invite contributions that will pay particular attention to 
human rights issues/struggles from across the globe, as well as efforts 
by local groups especially in the developing world to broaden the focus 
of human rights beyond limited perspectives and traditional definitions.

We welcome contributors from political science, law, social work, 
history, sociology, African American Studies, Africana Studies, Ethnic 
Studies, and other scholars of human rights.

Please email a 500-word abstract for an individual presentation, a short 
curriculum vitae, including institutional affiliation, mailing address, 
e-mail address (latest by December 30, 2010) to each of the 
collaborators below:

Dr. Michael Udo Mbanaso
E. Franklin Frazier Center for Social Work Research
Howard University
Holy Cross Hall, 3rd Floor
2900 Van Ness Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20008
Tel.: 202-806-8101
E-Mail: mmbanaso at howard.edu

Dr. Chima J. Korieh
Departments of History,
Marquette University
P.O. Box 1881
Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881
TEL: (414) 288-3563 | (414) 288-5099 (FAX)
E-Mail: chima.korieh at marquette.edu

Selected participants will be informed by January 30, 2011.

	Dr. Chima J. Korieh
Departments of History,
Marquette University
P.O. Box 1881
Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881
TEL: (414) 288-3563 | (414) 288-5099 (FAX)

Email: chima.korieh at marquette.edu <mailto:chima.korieh at marquette.edu>

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