CONFERENCE PROGRAM:
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TUESDAY 1st JULY 2003

10.00am-2.00pm

Registration

2.00pm-2.30pm

FORMAL OPENING by Arakwal Aboriginal Community
Welcome to Country : Yvonne Stewart

2.30pm-4.15pm

FORMAL OPENING AND OPENING PLENARY
Welcome to Conference: Convenor, Baden Offord
The Hon Justice John Dowd AO Chancellor, Southern Cross University

Musical Interlude Ð Isabella

OPENING PLENARY
Chair: Dr Elizabeth Porter

Professor Monica McWilliams (Northern Ireland)
'Human Rights & Conflict Resolution - Are They Mutually Dependent in a Divided Society?'

Youth on Justice Procession: Youth on Justice Program

Sponsored by TP Health Ltd.

5.00pm-7.00pm

Performance: "Silken Threads" Multicultural Women's Theatre Group

SPECIAL FORUM
Women on Terrorism, Refugees, Human Rights and Globalisation
MC: Di Morrissey
Panel Members: Natasha Stott-Despoja, Senator Nettle, Dita Indah Sari, Charlene Smith, Janelle Saffin, Prasuna Reddy, Monica McWilliams, Lillian Holt, Rachel Lynwood, Rachel McInerny

Sponsored by the Beach Hotel, Byron Bay

7.00pm-9.00pm

WELCOME RECEPTION
Sponsored by Byron Bay Community Centre

Wednesday 2nd JULY 2003

9.00am-10.45pm

PLENARY TWO
Chair: Professor Paul Thom, Executive Dean of Arts, Southern Cross University

Professor Raimond Gaita (UK & Australia)
'Calling Crimes by their right name: reflections in genocide'

Dr Irene Watson (Australia)
'Internationalising, humanising and diversifying - the one nation state'

Sponsored by Division of Arts

MORNING TEA

11.15am-1.15pm

PANEL SESSIONS (A)

LUNCH BREAK: Byron Bay Community Centre

2.15pm-4.15pm

PANEL SESSIONS (B)

AFTERNOON TEA

4.45pm-6.30pm

PLENARY THREE
Chair: Associate Professor Greta Bird, School of Law & Justice, Southern Cross University

Dr Sev Ozdowski (Australia)
'The Relevance of Human Rights in Contemporary Australia'

Maqshood Alshams (Bangladesh)

Sponsored by Australian Multicultural Foundation

8.00pm

CONFERENCE DINNER Great Northern Hotel, Byron Bay

Thursday 3rd JULY 2003

9.00am-11.00am

PANEL SESSIONS (C)

MORNING TEA

11.30AM-1.00PM

PANEL SESSIONS (D)

LUNCH BREAK

2.15pm-4.15pm

PANEL SESSIONS (E)

AFTERNOON TEA

4.45pm-6.30pm

PLENARY FOUR
Chair: Professor Judy Atkinson, College of Indigenous Australian Peoples, Southern Cross University

Lillian Holt (Australia)
‘Human Rights and the Human Condition'

Dr Chee Soon Juan (Singapore)
'Human rights: Dirty words in Singapore'

Sponsored by Division of Health & Applied Sciences

8.00pm

Local Voices Singing Global Ð Human Rights Concert at BEACH HOTEL

Friday 4th JULY 2003

9.00am-10.45am

PLENARY FIVE
Chair: Associate Professor Sam Garkawe, School of Law & Justice, Southern Cross University

Professor Carl Stychin (UK)
'Communities of Difference and the Globalization of Human Rights Claims'

Melinda Jones (Australia)
'Towards an Inclusive Theory of Human Rights'

Sponsored by the Division of Arts

MORNING TEA

11.15am-12.45pm

PANEL SESSIONS (F)

LUNCH BREAK

2.00pm-3.30pm

PANEL SESSIONS (G)

AFTERNOON TEA

4.00pm-4.50pm

PLENARY SIX
Chair: Professor Monica McWilliams MP, Women's Studies & Social Policy, University of Ulster

Charlene Smith (South Africa)
'Indestructible Summer: Confronting the world's highest rate of sexual violence and HIV in the world'

Sponsored by ACON (AIDS Council of NSW)

4.50pm-5.30pm

PLENARY REVIEW PANEL
Chair: Professor Raimond Gaita, Kings College London, & the Australian Catholic University

Musical Interlude Ð Isabella

5.30pm-6.30pm

Youth Resolutions presented to the Hon Larry Anthony, Minister for Children & Youth Affairs (from Youth on Justice advocacy program)

CLOSE OF CONFERENCE

8.00pm

LAUNCH: ACTIVATING HUMAN RIGHTS FILM FESTIVAL
FILM PREMIERE: 'The Man Who Stole My Mother's Face' with Charlene Smith & Cathy Henkel