US Human Rights Network Conference

Posted by on August 12, 2005

Advancing the Movement for Human Rights in the US
NO RETREAT, NO COMPROMISE!!!

US Human Rights Network
Bi-Annual Conference
Atlanta, GA
November 11th- 13th, 2005

Plenary Sessions

Reclaiming the Initiative: Using Human Rights to Organize for Justice
Human Rights as Anti-Oppression Practice: An Intersectional Approach
From the America?s to the World: Towards a ?People Centered? Human Rights Movement?

The following are representative of the workshops and panels that will be covered:

Gender Identity & Expression: A New Edge in Human Rights
Rights & Resistance: Building a Human Rights Culture in the U.S.
Environmental Justice as a Human Rights Issue
Defending Human Rights under the War on Terror
Juvenile (In) Justice: a Human Rights Frame for Children in Conflict with the Law
The Human Right to Housing
Workers Rights as Human Rights: Strategies for Building Local Power
Human Rights as anti-oppression practice
Framing Your Human Rights Messages
Using the Human Rights Framework to Define and Defeat Discrimination
Winning Gender Asylum Cases

Pre conference meetings of Human Rights Educators
The objectives of the Human Rights Educators meetings are to overview current initiatives in human rights education and training in the U.S. and to explore concrete areas of collaboration within the context of a potential coordinated national strategy.

For more information on the meeting please email ftibbitts@hrea.org or call 978-341-0200.

http://www.ushrnetwork.org