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The Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM), University of Oslo, in collaboration with the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights (NCHR), Oslo and the Christian Michelsen Institute (CMI), Bergen, will organise the NFU-conference 2006:
Ethics, Human Rights and Development
During the days September 13-15 2006
Please see the Conference web-pages.
The aim of the conference is to provide an arena to discuss a broad range of issues concerning the place of ethics and human rights in development research, policy and practice.
Papers will be organized in thematic workshops, and the organisers wish to invite panel proposals covering the following broad themes:
- Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: The Right to Food and the Right to Health
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Transitional Justice and Development
- Responsibility for Sovereign Debt: Theory and Empirical Investigations
- Foreign Direct Investment, Poverty and Human Rights
- Ethics, Social Struggle and Development in Latin America
- Education for All, Knowledge and Development
- Courts and the Poor
- Ethics, Religion and Poverty
- Gender and Child Poverty: Rights, Ethics and Care
- Checking the State: Accountability Function of Courts in New and Fragile Democracies
- Global Institutions, Ethics and Human Rights
- Islam, Democracy and Development: Challenges for the Arab World
- The Politics of Poverty Reduction: Also a matter Human Rights and Ethics
- Global Poverty and Human Rights: Responsibility and Accountability
- Human Rights Interfacing gendered realities and plural legalities: challenges in relation to health, education, participation, land, water and food
- Climate Change, Equity and Human Security
- Human Rights based development, Advocacy and Civil Society organizations: Young researchers' perspectives
- Social Movements as Agents of Development: The Reclaiming of Rights and Beyond
- Strengthening Inter-sector Collaboration of Rights and beyond
- The regulatory ecology of Conflict Trade: Local Production, Global Markets and War
- Formalisation of Land Rights: Policies, Markets and Human Rights Perspectives
Registration deadline is August 14th 2006
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