Call for papers - EIUC/ UCSIA Conference (16-18 October 2008)
14-01-2008 / Conferencias y presentaciones
Call for papers - EIUC/ UCSIA Conference (16-18 October 2008)
Dear Friends,
This is to invite you and/ or your colleagues to participate as paper presenters at the international conference The local relevance of human rights (16th – 18th of October 2008) organized by the University of Antwerp (Belgium) and the European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation (Venice). I am forwarding (below) the message issued by the conference organizers, conference programme and application form. In these you will find the necessary information about the conference and the workshops content.
Professor Wouter Vandenhole (Faculty of Law, University of Antwerp) and I are conveners for the Conference workshop entitled The justiciability of and equal access to economic, social and cultural rights (Workshop 8) for which we encourage you to submit a paper presentation proposal. The details of the workshop content and submission guidelines are described below. You can find further details about the UCSIA conference and other workshops at http://www.ucsia.org
Workshop Title: Justiciability Of and Equal Access to Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Joint organising chairs: Gaby Oré Aguilar
Localising Human Rights Project Consultant, Faculty of Law
University of Antwerp
Phone/ fax: +34 91 714 0256
E-mail: gaby.ore@gmail.com
Prof. Dr. Wouter Vandenhole
UNICEF Chair in Children’s Rights
Faculty of Law, University of Antwerp
Venusstraat 23, 2000 Antwerp Belgium
Phone: + 32 3 275 52 37
E-mail: wouter.vandenhole@ua.ac.be
Website: www.ua.ac.be/wouter.vandenhole
With the likely adoption in the near future of an Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights providing for a complaints procedure, the indivisibility and interrelatedness of economic, social and cultural rights will be fully recognized again, as was the case in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. However, local struggles for social justice in the era of economic globalisation and growing inequalities that prevent entire communities or groups within them from accessing basic services and rights, pose a further challenge to justiciability.
The workshop objective is two-fold. It purports to explore whether justiciability of economic, social and cultural rights at national, regional and universal levels can be mutually reinforcing, and contribute to local struggles for social justice. At the same time, it will examine the possibilities and limits of legal strategies in tackling unequal access to economic and social justice and explore experiences that call for a multidisciplinary approach to address this problem.
Particular attention will be paid to the question as to whether and how transnational obligations can be subjected to (quasi-) judicial scrutiny. Also, it is to be examined whether social issues and growing inequalities and discrimination resulting from economic globalisation, can adequately be grasped and conceptualised in terms of existing economic, social and cultural rights.
Papers are invited on any of the following themes:
· Human rights-based strategies to economic, social and cultural challenges specific cases studies are encouraged)
· Possibilities and limits of litigation strategies
· Legal aid – paralegals in the field of economic, social and cultural rights
· Assessment of the effectiveness of regional efforts and legally binding mechanisms in the field of economic, social and cultural rights
· The meaning and scope, as well as the implementation of the right to an adequate standard of living and well-being
· The principle of non-discrimination in the context of economic, social and cultural rights
· Implementation of General Comment No. 16 of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights on gender equality
· The challenges of self-regulation and global corporations
· Does local justice work to protect cultural rights?
Papers will be considered on any related theme. Please use the application form to submit your abstracts by Monday February 18th 2008 to both Co-Chairs. Once an abstract is accepted, a full draft paper (max. 10.000 words footnotes incl.) should be submitted by Monday September 1st 2008.
The Workshop is part of the UCSIA Interdisciplinary Conference at the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 16th – 18th of October 2008, University of Antwerp (Belgium).
The conference language is English.
