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NEWS STORY:
Stop demonising the enemy: SCU international human rights conference told
- 07/07/2003
The only way to find lasting peace was to stop demonising the
enemy, one of the keynote speakers from Northern Ireland told an international
human rights conference put on by Southern Cross University (SCU) last
week in Byron Bay.
Professor Monica McWilliams, from the University of Ulster and head of
the Northern Ireland Women’s Coalition (party of Catholic and Protestant
women), told of her recent seven-minute meeting with US President Bush
as a member of the Irish parliament. more...
Local and Global Voices
1-4 July 2003
Byron Bay Community Centre
Byron Bay NSW, Australia
Welcome
This international conference is for everyone who cares passionately about human rights, and who wishes to activate/re-activate human rights and their importance in the twenty-first century. The core aim of this conference is to bring together activists, scholars, Non Government Organisations, and health care and community workers who represent a diversity of viewpoints. The conference will seek local and global responses to the essential need for justice in the world today.
The forums will provide a crucial and critical learning space for activating human rights and diversity in relation to the fields of law, culture, politics and health. A major focus of the conference is to invite participants to exchange ideas and experiences about human rights, questions of diversity and their implications across these fields. The conference affirms an interdisciplinary and activist approach to challenge the theory and practice of human rights.
The conference will also play an important role in promoting regional Australia as a place where local, national and global voices can come together in the quest for justice and freedom.
Baden Offord,
Convenor
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