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Glasgow Human Rights Network Bulletin 16 August 2011

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1. Events

MENAFiS & GRAMNet Lecture: “The United Nations bid for Palestinian Statehood”
Sunday 21 August 2011, 16.00 – 18.00, University of Glasgow, Boyd Orr Lecture Theatre 1 (Ground Floor), University Avenue
D1 on campus map: http://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_1887_en.pdf

Middle East and North Africa Forum In Scotland, in partnership with the Libyan community in Scotland & Glasgow Refugee Asylum and Migration Network presents a Special Lecture with Guest Speakers:

Afif Safieh (Palestine Liberation Organization)
Osama Daneshyar (Barrister at law)

Afif Safieh has held the 3 most important diplomatic positions in the Western world, the US Britain and Russia, and is considered the most skilled Palestinian diplomat. This is a key opportunity to gain an insight to Palestinian politics.

All are welcome – event is free of charge. No booking necessary.
MENAFiS has a special interest in Palestine, and plans to host future events highlighting other topical world affair issues.
Download: 110821 Palestinian State flyer

Lost in the “balance”: Trading women’s human rights for immigration control?
Tuesday 6 September 2011, 2.30-4.30pm, kings Cross, London

This is a FREE seminar and debate on proposed changes to migration law and policy. This seminar and debate will equip you with an understanding of the main proposals and enable you to respond to the consultation to ensure that the rights of the women that you work with are upheld. Template consultation responses will be provided and discussed. Speakers include Kate Roberts, Community Advocate from Kalayaan, Pragna Patel, Director of Southall Black Sisters and Catherine Briddick, Senior Legal Officer at Rights of Women. This seminar is free of charge but booking is essential. For full details please refer to the website http://www.rightsofwomen.org.uk/current.php#b1

GHRN Conference June 2012 - Protecting Human Rights: Duties and Responsibilities of States and Non-state Actors
Save These Dates! 18-19 June 2012

The Steering Committee of the APSA Human Rights Section, the Council of the IPSA Human Rights Research Committee, and the Executive Council of the ISA Human Rights Section announce their second joint conference on the theme “Protecting Human Rights: Duties and Responsibilities of States and Non-state Actors” to take place on 18-19 June 2012 at the University of Glasgow, hosted by the Glasgow Human Rights Network. This conference is timed to coincide with the joint ISA-BISA conference to be held immediately after in Edinburgh (20-22 June). A formal call for papers will be issued later this summer.
Download: June 2012 GHRN Conference Announcement

2. Opportunities & Funding

UBC - Post doctoral position in Human Security
Human Security is another key theme for U21 and the Liu Institute for Global Issues at the University of British Columbia invites applications from outstanding researchers to hold a Postdoctoral Fellowship (PDF) at the Institute, beginning as early as 1 September 2011. The Institute regards human security as a multi-dimensional objective with the overall goal of protecting individuals. It is interested in scholars working on all aspects of human security, particularly those whose work fits within the Institute’s three broad themes of Social Justice, Sustainability and Security. Applications are invited from promising scholars with doctorates in either the social or natural sciences and especially encourage applications from scholars in developing countries.
Further information can be found at http://www.universitas21.com/news/details/26/human-security-postdoctoral-fellowship-at-ubc
Deadline: Applications welcome until position filled

RCUK Global Uncertainties Leadership Fellows – Call for Expressions of Interest
The RCUK Global Uncertainties Programme is pleased to announce the call for Global Uncertainties Leadership Fellows, offering the opportunity for outstanding researchers to develop a suite of activities to maximise the value and impact of the Global Uncertainties Programme, alongside personal research. The RCUK Global Uncertainties Programme brings together the activities of the seven UK Research Councils in response to global security challenges. The Programme helps governments, businesses and societies to better predict, detect, prevent and mitigate threats to security, focussing on six core areas:

Ideologies and beliefs
Terrorism
Transnational organised crime
Cyber security
Threats to infrastructures
Countering the proliferation of chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) weapons and technologies

Deadline: Expressions of Interest 28 September 2011
For more information please visit: http://www.esrc.ac.uk/funding-and-guidance/funding-opportunities/16083/latest-opportunity-17.aspx

Call for Visiting Fellowships in Human Rights 2011-12
Applications are invited for Visiting Fellowships in Human Rights, hosted by the Human Rights Consortium at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. See the research interests of Associates and forthcoming events on human rights. Visiting Fellowships in Human Rights are granted for a period ranging from one to three months. Fellows are expected to help develop the activities of the Human Rights Consortium at the School by presenting at a conference or seminar or contributing to a publication, and to pursue their own research. Office space, access to computing and printing facilities and a library card are provided.

The Consortium is also launching a Refuge Law Initiative which will be the only academic centre in the UK to focus specifically on international refugee law. The RLI aims to function as a national focal point for leading and promoting the refugee law research agenda. It will be formally launched in October 2011 and applications to work with the RLI are accepted too. An honorarium of £2,000 is offered to successful candidate(s).
Deadline: Applications by 30 September 2011 and March 2012 for a visit in 2011/2012.
For further information and application form: http://www.sas.ac.uk/573.html

Centres and Large Grants competition

ESRC are pleased to announce the first call for outline proposals for the newly integrated Centres and Large Grant Competition 2011-12. This competition is for experienced researchers requiring longer term or extended support for research groups, inter-institutional research networks, linked-project programmes, medium-to-large surveys, other infrastructure or methodological developments, or any related larger scale projects. The Competition is for applications ranging from £2 million to £5 million (at 100 per cent full economic cost).
Deadline: 13 October 2011.

ESRC: Follow on Funding Scheme
This scheme offers awards of up to £100,000 (at 80 per cent fEC) for a maximum of 12 months. Provides the opportunity to apply for knowledge exchange and impact generating activities that follow on from a specific piece of research. The scheme is designed to be flexible, applications for either a single activity or a combination of activities are welcomed, and applicants are encouraged to think creatively about the format of the knowledge exchange. Follow on funding should be thought of as an extension and complement to the 'Pathways to Impact' section of a research grant and should involve research users from the earliest stages of proposal development.
Deadline: 27 October 2011
Link: Follow on Funding scheme
Contact: David Ridley

ESRC: Knowledge Exchange Opportunities scheme
Applicants can apply for any amount between £2,000 - £100,000 (non fEC-full economic cost) per application for knowledge exchange and impact generating activities. The scheme provides the opportunity to apply for funding for knowledge exchange activities at any stage of the research lifecycle, and is aimed at maximising the impact of social science research outside academia. The flexibility built into the scheme is intended to encourage applicants to think creatively about knowledge exchange, and applications are welcomed for either a single activity or a combination of activities; be it setting up a network to help inform the development of a research proposal, arranging an academic placement with a voluntary or business organisation, or developing tools such as podcasts and videos aimed at communicating the results of research to non-academic audiences. Some examples of knowledge exchange activities can be found on the website.
Deadline: 27 October 2011
Link: Knowledge Exchange Opportunities scheme

3. Call for papers

Free Movement and Discrimination Workshop
November 28, 2011, Glendon College, York University (Toronto, Canada)

Democratic states tend to guarantee free movement within their territory to all citizens. Similarly, the European Union guarantees the right to live and the right to work anywhere within EU territory to EU citizens and members of their families. Such rights reflect the project of equality and undifferentiated individual rights for all who have the status of citizen. But they are not uncontested. Within the EU, several member states have or propose to reintroduce border controls and restrict access for EU citizens who claim social assistance. Some, most notably France and Italy, have emphasized their expulsions of Roma, which challenge human rights norms against discrimination. Within democratic states, particularly federal ones and others where decentralized jurisdictions are responsible for social welfare provision, it sometimes appears that some citizens are more equal than others. Principles such as benefit portability, prohibition of residence requirements for access to programs or rights, and mutual recognition of qualifications and credentials facilitate the free flow of people within states and reflect the attempt to eliminate internal borders. The purpose of this workshop is to explore the politics of free movement and discrimination in the EU and a range of democratic states. Participants will be asked to revise their contributions for publication.
Deadline for abstracts: Please send an abstract to Willem Maas (maas@yorku.ca) as soon as possible but no later than September 5. We will notify participants promptly following this date.

4. News

Bright Club Glasgow: Communicate your Research like never before!
Tuesday 13 September at 4.00 pm in the Kelvin Meeting Room, 11 The Square

Described by its founders as 'the thinking person's variety night', Bright Club is an opportunity for academics to communicate their research like they've never done before: via stand up comedy! Bright Club started at University College London and recently made its way to Edinburgh, where an assortment of researchers (PhD students, postdocs, and professors) from a variety of disciplines are poised to perform at this year's Fringe festival.
The organisers would like to bring Bright Club to Glasgow. If you are interested in helping to make this happen (either as a performer or organiser) then please get in touch with Zara.

This novel form of public engagement is a chance to meet new people, hone your communication skills, and reach out to a whole new audience. It's also a lot of fun! Researchers from ALL disciplines are welcome. Previous participants have included scientists, philosophers, archaeologists, engineers, historians, and mathematicians. Performers will receive full training prior to the night, with rehearsals and ample advice from a professional comedian. It's not as scary as you might think!

A meeting will take place on Tuesday 13 September at 4.00 pm in the Kelvin Meeting Room, 11 The Square for anyone interested in getting involved.

For further info visit the Bright Club website and 'like' us on facebook.

Oor John Campaign
Sent on behalf of Pauline Donald, Oor John Campaign coordinator - p.donald.1@research.gla.ac.uk .

Thank you for giving this your attention: as you may be aware Charles Kennedy has opened up the door to John returning home to Scotland by making fresh representations direct to the Immigration Minister for John to be returned home (see below). What we really need at the moment are fresh representations ie letters for John to be considered at the Immigration Ministers discression to allow John to return to the UK. All previous letters were concerning John remaining in the UK and connected to his asylum claim. He is now being considered under a different set of criteria relating to immigration. In theory this should make the decision making process somewhat easier. Charles Kennedy also stated in the Sunday Herald he will personally raise John's case with the Prime Minister. All of the details of how to petition under the immigration rules are below.

As reported in the Greenock Telegraph, Glasgow Herald, Daily Record and Evening Times John Oguchukwu lost his 10 year asylum claim and was removed from the UK to Lagos Nigeria on Wednesday 20th July. John is ‘broke, homeless and alone in Lagos’ (Sunday Herald, 24/July/2011) and we are all deeply concerned for his well being. John Oguchukwu lived in the UK for 10 years and the East End of Glasgow for 7 years where he is Extraordinary Minister at St. Michael’s Church in the East End of Glasgow and has assisted greatly in the church work for seven years. John’s parish community has benefited greatly from his presence and voluntary work.

John Oguchukwu was about to enter his Senior Honours year at Glasgow University where he is studying Business Management. John was supported in his studies by an award from the Archdiocese of Glasgow and Saint Vincent De Paul charity. Just a few weeks ago John was one of only 10 students selected and put forward by the Glasgow University Principle Anton Muscatelli for a Bursary from the Thomas and Margaret Roddan Trust. John also has plans to pursue a postgraduate career. John intends to research Migrant Entrepreneurs within Glasgow as his PhD topic.

John has established deep and long term relationships with his Scottish friends and family none more so than Elizabeth Jenkins his Scottish mum ‘John has been unofficially adopted by myself and my family here in Greenock. I myself being his Scottish mum plus my daughters and grandchildren accept him as a member of our family. He is a devoted son showing love to myself plus members of my family. He has proven to be an asset in my family’s life.’ Joe and Anne Reilly consider John an extended part of their family ‘John has become an important member of our community and we would be extremely saddened if he were not allowed to remain with us. He is such a fine example to all of our young people. I cannot think of anyone who does not have a great admiration for him. In three words everyone loves John. He is a great asset to our society and we all hope and pray he will be allowed to return to us.’

We are asking for fresh/further representations/letters/petitions to be sent to Damien Green Immigration Minister to use his discression and allow John to return to the UK in order to continue his studies at the University of Glasgow, to be with his Scottish community family particularly in St. Michaels East End Parish and Greenock and to further his contributions to UK society on completion of his Honours Degree and PhD. John is exactly the kind of citizen the UK needs particularly in Scotland where we have a falling population count. He is a great asset to the UK.

Please send all representations/letters petitions directly to:
Damian Green
Immigration Minister
House of Commons, London SW1A
Tel- 020 7219 3518
Fax-020 7219 0904

Please send copies and or confirmation of all representations/letters petitions submitted to:
David McGlashan, Solicitor
Livingston Brown Solicitors
84 Calton Place, Glasgow, G5
Tel- 0141 556 7313
Fax-0141 566 7323

Thank you for your support: Pauline Donald, Oor John Campaign coordinator - p.donald.1@research.gla.ac.uk

Glasgow Human Rights Network Bulletin 1 July 2011

1. Events

Legal Services Agency: Fatal Accident Inquiries Seminar
Monday 4 July 2011, 10.00 - 13.00, The Board Room, Legal Services Agency Ltd., 3rd Floor, Fleming House, 134 Renfrew Street, Glasgow

This practical seminar will update practitioners on the Fatal Accidents and Sudden Deaths Inquiry (Scotland) Act 1976. This seminar aims to discuss the Fatal Accident Inquiry process from the point of the Crown's decision as to whether or not to hold an inquiry, up to the Sheriff's determination. Both speakers draw on having significant experience in conducting Fatal Accident Inquiries and will offer practical tips for practitioners and will reflect on relevant human rights issues.

CPD 3 hours COST £90.00 full price/£80.00 LSA members/£60.00 Concessionary cost places

For more information and to book please visit: http://www.lsa.org.uk/updatefatalaccidentinquiries_1.aspx

Human Trafficking in the UK: Working in Partnership to Strengthen Prevention, Protection and Prosecution
Thursday 14 July 2011, Central London.

Pledging a renewed offensive against the organised gangs behind human trafficking, the new Government strategy on tackling human trafficking, launched recently, places a greater focus on prevention, intercepting traffickers before they reach the UK. This follows the recent move to opt in to the EU directive to enable better protection for victims and increase the chance of successfully prosecuting the gangs that exploit them.

During a period of great change in the sector, this special symposium offers a timely opportunity for practitioners in the police service, social services, health sector and third sector to:

Examine the next steps in prevention, tackling the supply of, and demand for, human trafficking
Explore how to improve awareness and identification of victims
Consider how to safeguard victims, strengthen victim support and improve prosecution rates
Assess how to ensure the safe resettlement and repatriation of victims

For further details about the symposium and to register, please see the event website.

Knowing Ways: Critical Learning in Arts Practice
EDINBURGH, Scotland 8-10 September 2011.

The Knowing Ways Conference brings together international partners to investigate and disseminate knowledge about critical learning in arts practice through the following four strands of inquiry:

Arts & Human Rights
Arts & Health
Artists & Critical Learning
Developing international practice – no mean model

For more information please see: Knowing Ways - Call for Contributions or contact Stephanie Knight, Conference Director stephaniejaneknight@googlemail.com . Creative Scotland is offering 40 bursaries for artists based in Scotland to participate in this conference. If you are interested in applying for one of these, please contact Stephanie Knight.

GHRN Conference June 2012 - Protecting Human Rights: Duties and Responsibilities of States and Non-state Actors
Save These Dates! 18-19 June 2012

The conference will examine the following questions and topics, among others:

What is the nature of human rights responsibilities?
Have these responsibilities translated into appropriate action?
How do we define such appropriate action, and who holds these responsibilities?
How does the international community address conflicting responsibilities?
What types of human rights responsibilities do non-state actors have?
What is the relationship between rights, duties and responsibilities?
Dealing with past wrongs and failed responsibilities

A formal call for papers will be issued later this summer.

Download: June 2012 GHRN Conference Announcement

2. Opportunities

BEMIS/University of Glasgow - BA in Community Development
BEMIS and the University of Glasgow's BA in Community Development programme is now open for applications (begins in September 2011). As part of BEMIS’s programme for capacity building strategy for the ethnic minority’s voluntary sector, and in line with encouragement measures under the Positive Action notion, this training programme is deployed to fill a gap that has hindered the development of this sector and the diverse communities it represents.

Whether you are working in central government, local government or as part of a local partnership, you will be part of the contemporary rediscovery of community and active citizenship. The programme will assist you to build critical skills and knowledge you need to work effectively in the area of Community Learning & Development.

Download:

BA in community development - BEMIS notice

For further information or an application form, please contact Tanveer Parnez (tanveer.parnez@bemis.org.uk)
Closing date mid August 2011.

3. Call for papers

Call for Papers: Social Media and Political Change: Journal of Communication Special Issue
The “Arab Spring” as well as recent events in other parts of the world have demonstrated that new communication technologies, such as mobile phones and the internet, are simultaneously new tools for social movement organizing and new tools for surveillance by authoritarian regimes. Though communication theory necessarily transcends particular technologies, software, and websites, digital media have clearly become an important part of the toolkit available to political actors. These technologies are also becoming part of the research toolkit for scholars interested in studying the changing patterns in interpersonal, political, and global communication.

This Special Issue seeks original qualitative, comparative, and quantitative research on social media and political change, particularly as related to events in North Africa and the Middle East, but we are also receptive to work on political change in other parts of the developing world. We would welcome manuscripts from a diverse range of methodologies, and covering diverse communities and cultures. Methodological innovations or mixed method approaches are particularly encouraged, and manuscripts on the interpersonal and intergroup aspects of social movement organizing are central interest. Whatever the approach, our goal is to select manuscripts that are grounded in the actual use of social media in promoting or resisting political change in developing countries and regions. If you have questions regarding the appropriateness of a potential submission, please contact Dr. Philip N. Howard (pnhoward@uw.edu).

Deadline for Submission is August 15th, 2011, through http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jcom.
More information: http://faculty.washington.edu/pnhoward/publishing/jofcspecialissue.html

4. Notifications

BSA Sociology of Rights Study Group
Dr. Matthew Waites, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at University of Glasgow is Co-Convenor of the British Sociological Association’s Sociology of Rights Study Group. Details of the group and how to join are here: http://www.britsoc.co.uk/specialisms/socrights.htm

Membership is open to non-BSA members. There is a jiscmail email list which sends occasional updates on events and publications.

The Sociology of Rights Study Group has been very active this year. In April it co-convened the first ever ‘Law, Crime and Rights’ stream at the BSA’s 60th Anniversary at the London School of Economics. The stream included a sub-plenary jointly hosted by the LSE’s Centre for the Study of Human Rights, with the new Director Professor Chetan Bhatt as one of the speakers.

The Group’s Convenors - Patricia Hynes (NSPCC), Michele Lamb (Roehampton University), Damien Short (Institute for Commonwealth Studies) and Matthew Waites (University of Glasgow) - have edited a special issue of the International Journal of Human Rights on ‘Sociology and Human Rights: New Engagements’ (Vol. 14, no.6, November 2010). This includes an opening article ‘Sociology and Human Rights: Confrontations, Evasions and New Engagements’, co-authored by the editors, which provides a useful introductory overview of the sociology and human rights field, intended to be useful to those approaching either sociology or human rights for the first time. The collection was more recently published as a book by Routledge in March 2011, also titled ‘Sociology and Human Rights: New Engagements’ . This is the first edited collection on sociology and human rights.

On Friday 17 June the Sociology of Rights Study Group held its second one day seminar at Liverpool John Moores University, with ten papers on a range of themes including genocide in Rwanda, and ‘Homonationalism’ in the UK. Speakers included Keith Hammond from Education at University of Glasgow on Palestinian rights, and Vicky Canning from LJMU on sexual violence survivors seeking asylum.

The Group Convenors are now editing a special issue of Sociology, journal of the British Sociological Association, on ‘The Sociology of Human Rights’. The deadline for submissions is 31 July 2011.

Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Press Release 21 June 2011
The OSCE Strategic Police Matters Unit launched a new guide today for police on identifying and assisting victims of human trafficking. The publication, “Trafficking in human beings: identification of potential and presumed victims. A community policing approach”, is based on the findings of a meeting of anti-trafficking and community policing experts hosted by the OSCE in November 2010 in Vienna. It was launched on the sidelines of the 11th High-level Alliance against Trafficking in Persons conference hosted by the OSCE.

“Police are often the first point of contact for trafficking victims, and they can play a crucial role in victim assistance. But trafficking cases are extraordinarily complex, and it is not always easy for police officers to recognize victims, who in some cases are mistakenly detained and later deported,” said OSCE Senior Police Adviser Knut Dreyer.

Victim identification is a key element in combating trafficking, but without proper measures in place to identify the victims, such crimes are often not documented or prosecuted. The police, while familiar with trans-border trafficking crimes in sexual exploitation cases, tend to have less experience with identifying victims trafficked for other purposes such as domestic servitude or extorted labour in the construction, agriculture or garment industries.

“Good identification criteria and approaches that build on existing police-public partnerships can result in a more effective criminal justice response, while protecting the rights of the victims,” said Dreyer. “These guidelines produced by the OSCE draw on both community policing and anti-trafficking expertise, and aim to support police in identifying and helping victims, as well as assisting in the prosecution of their exploiters.”

Glasgow Human Rights Network Bulletin 14 June 2011

1. Events

Reading & Book Launch - Nicol Ljubic: Stillness Of The Sea
Wednesday 15 June 2011, 7pm, Goethe-Institut, 3 Park Circus, Glasgow (free Admission)

Nicol Ljubić will read excerpts (in the original German and the English translation) from his critically acclaimed novel which sets a moving love story against the background of the Yugoslavian conflict of the early 1990s. He will be introduced by the writer and journalist Fiona Rintoul who will also chair the discussion after the reading.

Robert, the narrator of this novel, is a young history student living in Berlin. Born in Germany to Croatian parents, he finds himself confronted with the terrible legacy of the Balkan conflict when he meets Ana, a Serbian student. When Robert decides to travel to The Hague to witness an International Criminal Tribunal on the Former Yugoslavia – a former university professor accused of committing atrocities against Muslim families in Serbia – he is shocked and perplexed by Ana’s response. As the trial unfolds, Robert is getting closer to an understanding of the trauma in Ana’s life.

The English translation of Meeresstille (2010) is published by Vagabond Voices (Stillness of the Sea, translated by Anna Paterson; supported by the Goethe-Institut's Translation Programme). Books will be on sale at the reading and will be signed by the author.

Cross Party Group on Human Rights Meeting
Tuesday 21 June, 6pm, Committee Room 6, Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh EH99 1SP

The Cross Party Group on Human Rights exists to foster discussion of human rights issues relevant to the remit and business agenda of the Scottish Parliament. The cross-party nature of the Group allows for a non-partisan discussion, bringing together politicians from across the political spectrum and interested parties from outside the Parliament. The first meeting of the Group in the new session of the Parliament will take place on Tuesday 21st June at 6pm in Committee Room 6. Tea, coffee and fruit will be provided.

The topic for discussion will be sectarianism, with a particular focus on the proposed legislation which will shortly be placed before the Parliament. The timescale for consideration of this legislation will be very short and the meeting therefore provides a valuable opportunity to consider the proposals from a human rights perspective, with a particular focus on balancing rights to freedom of speech and cultural expression with protecting individual and community safety. Various interested parties have agreed to take part in the discussion and I am just waiting to hear if one of the civil servants drafting the legislation will be able to attend and will circulate final details later. As the first meeting of the new session we will start by electing a new Convenor, Vice-Convenors, Secretary and Treasurer.

Membership of the Group is free and open to all (we will ask for a voluntary contribution at some point to cover meeting expenses). If you would like to be added to the Group's mailing list then please contact John Watson on john.watson@amnesty.org.uk
For more information on cross party groups see http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/msp/crossPartyGroups/index.htm

GRAMNet/BEMIS Film Series: Making Connections (2011) & In this World (2002)
Wednesday 22 June 2011, doors 6.00pm, film starts 6.15pm, CCA 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, Cert: 15

‘Making connections’ will be shown immediately before Michael Winterbottom’s ‘In this world’. This short film made by a group of postgraduate students at the University of Glasgow is about GRAMNet and looks at the unique collaboration between activists and academics in this newly established network. The film explores how individuals and organizations deal with the complicated personal, social and political issues affecting refugees and asylum seekers today (thanks to Glasgow–based film collective, Camcorder Guerillas).

'In This World' follows young Afghan Jamal and his older cousin Enayat as they embark on a hazardous overland trip from their refugee camp at Peshawar, north-west Pakistan. Entering Turkey on foot through a snowy, Kurdish-controlled pass, the pair again take their lives into their hands and face suffocation when they are locked in a freight container on a ship bound for Italy. From there they plan to travel on to Paris, the Sangatte refuge centre and ultimately asylum in London. The film depicts the human face of immigration, and one too often hidden from the eyes of the world.
In this World is screened courtesy of Revolution Films www.revolution-films.com
All screenings are free of charge and open to the public. Tickets can be reserved in advance - please contact the CCA.

Our Narrowing World
7.30pm, 22nd June 2011 at The Tron Theatre, Changing House

Ragged Presents an evening of talks, rehearsed readings and an informal discussion on “Our Narrowing World”
This event will include rehearsed readings, screenings and talks from exiled refugee artists and Scottish arts enthusiasts about censorship. Please come along and contribute to the discussion. See the flyer for more information (110622 OURNARROWWORLD) or go to www.ragged-online.com

Working Together for Equality
Free Event Wednesday 29 June 9.30 - 2.00pm

EveryoneIN is a joint project between Equality Network and BEMIS bringing people together from across the equality strands of race, faith, gender identity and sexual orientation. This work is funded by the EHRC. The Equality Network is now also working on a new project to tackle isolation and discrimination experienced by disabled people who are LGBT. This work is funded by the Scottish Government.

We wish to invite you to a free double-bill event:

to update you about our work;
explain how you can get involved; and
follow up discussions at our recent LGBT asylum report launch

Our event is organised in conjunction with Glasgow Refugee Asylum Migrant Network (GRAMNet).

TO BOOK A PLACE: Please complete the booking form (110629 Working together for equality Booking form) and return it to Lynne Davies lynne@equality-network.org. Please specify if you wish to come to one or both parts of the event and let us know if you have any access or dietary requirements

GHRN Conference June 2012 - Protecting Human Rights: Duties and Responsibilities of States and Non-state Actors
Save These Dates! 18-19 June 2012

The conference will examine the following questions and topics, among others:

What is the nature of human rights responsibilities?
Have these responsibilities translated into appropriate action?
How do we define such appropriate action, and who holds these responsibilities?
How does the international community address conflicting responsibilities?
What types of human rights responsibilities do non-state actors have?
What is the relationship between rights, duties and responsibilities?
Dealing with past wrongs and failed responsibilities

A formal call for papers will be issued later this summer.

Download: June 2012 GHRN Conference Announcement

2. Opportunities

Download:

BA in community development - BEMIS notice

For further information or an application form, please contact Tanveer Parnez (tanveer.parnez@bemis.org.uk)
Closing date mid August 2011.

3. Call for papers

Call for Papers: Global Insecurities: Insurgency, Development, and World Order 10 Years On
5-6 September 2011, University of Leeds

*** New Keynote Speaker - BBC World Affairs Editor John Simpson ***

Final deadline for abstracts: Wednesday 22 June 2011
The School of Politics and International Studies, at the University of Leeds, is delighted to invite you to a two day conference in September to explore the nexus between three themes: insurgency; development; and world order in the 21st century. The conference aims to facilitate interaction between scholars from a variety of disciplines in order to question the changing nature of global insecurities.

Many scholars of International Politics hold that the response of myriad actors to 9/11 has revolutionised the post Cold War international environment. The 10th anniversary of these events provides us with an opportunity to reflect upon the morphogenesis of world order and the legacy of a changing international environment. To this end we encourage paper and panel proposals from researchers at any stage of their careers.

The Keynote Address will be delivered by Mark Duffield, Professor of Development Politics at the University of Bristol and author of: Global Governance and the New Wars: The Merging of Development and Security (2001) and Development, Security and Unending War: Governing the World of Peoples (2007). We also feature contributions from the following: Dr Benjamin Barber (author of Jihad vs McWorld) and Michael Dillon, Distinguished Professor of Politics, Sehir University, Istanbul.

In addition, we are delighted to be screening 'Ten Years of Terror', part of the Histories of Violence programme, which is dedicated to exploring the theoretical, empirical and aesthetic dimensions to violence. We welcome papers from the disciplines of International Relations, Human Rights, Politics, Security Studies, International Development, Sociology, Law, History, and related fields, with a focus upon interaction within the following themes:

World Order
The changing roles of International Organisations / The evolution of UN Peacekeeping and peace enforcement missions / The rise of the BRICs / The role of the UN and EU in security and development governance / IR theory

Development
Human Rights as a Tool for Development / Human Rights in the Non-western world / The Security-Development Nexus / The securitisation of Humanitarian Aid and Development / Statebuilding and intervention

Insurgency and Security
Democratisation and security / Human Security / Counterinsurgency / Terrorism / Transnational policing / Weapons of Mass Destruction

Proposals for papers should be sent by e-mail to, University of Leeds, at Polis-Conference@leeds.ac.uk by the deadline using the application form that is available online. We encourage panel submissions of up to four participants. Panel submissions should include a panel rationale of 250 words in addition to the above details for each paper.

A number of bursaries are available for graduate students demonstrating innovation and originality to contribute towards expenses. Please indicate on the application form if you would like to be considered for a bursary.

Deadline for proposals: Wednesday 22 June 2011 / Deadline for full papers: 29 August 2011
Conference Fee: £40, students £30
Conference Website: http://polis.leeds.ac.uk/blogs/conference2011
Contact email: Polis-Conference@leeds.ac.uk

How have changing patterns of interpersonal, political, and global communication created new opportunities for social movements, or new means of social control by political elites? The role of social media in new patterns of communication is especially dramatic across North Africa and the Middle East, where decades of authoritarian rule have been challenged—with varying degrees of success. Social media—broadly understood as a range of communication technologies that allow individuals to manage the flow of content across their own networks of family, friends and other social contacts—seem to have had a crucial role in the political upheaval and social protest in several countries. Mass communication has not ceased to be important, but is now joined with a variety of other media with very different properties that may reinforce, displace, counteract, or create fresh new phenomena.

Research on social media and political change outside North Africa and the Middle East is also welcome, especially if it is about countries and communities managed by authoritarian regimes, or by emerging democracies where democratic institutions and practises may be deepening or thinning. Also welcome are manuscripts on media industries, the political economy of telecommunications policy, and research that uses original data or existing data in original ways--as long as such manuscripts fit the thematic interest in social media and political change. Manuscripts should contribute to advancing our understanding of bothsocial media and political change.

Deadline for Submission is August 15th, 2011, through http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jcom. Manuscripts must confirm to all JOC guidelines, including the use of APA 6th edition format and a limit of 30 pages total manuscript length. Please indicate your desire to be considered for the special issue in your cover letter. For additional information, including updates in the production timeline for the issue, revisit this page. For style guidelines and examples of articles published in this journal, see the journal website. Given the tight production deadlines, good manuscript that vary too far from submission guidelines are likely to be rejected.

More information: http://faculty.washington.edu/pnhoward/publishing/jofcspecialissue.html

4. Notifications

Building a fairer Britain: Reform of the Equality and Human Rights Commission
In March 2011 the government published its report on reforming the Equalities at Human Rights Commission. The report, entitled 'Building a fairer Britain: Reform of the Equality and Human Rights Commission' can be found here.

Positive Action in Housing: Free entry to the Scottish Ethnic Minorities Directory
Positive Action in Housing is updating the 2011/12 Scottish Ethnic Minorities Directory. This has details of all Black & Minority Ethnic, Refugee and Migrant organisations, groups and projects operating in Scotland.
The Directory is the most up to date guide to BME projects in Scotland. 1000 copies will be printed and distributed across Scotland to individuals, housing providers, voluntary organisations, our members, councils, local authorities, the Scottish government, politicians, the media and potential funders.
To ensure your organisation or project is included in the new Directory, email home@paih.org for more information. All entries are published free of charge.
The deadline is Monday 27 June 2011.

2011 Gleitsman International Activist Award
The Center for Public Leadership of Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, is requesting nominations for the 2011 Gleitsman International Activist Award to honour individuals in the international community who have inspired change and motivated others in the realm of social activism. Nominations of individuals whom you believe have made a difference in their communities or countries may be entered through the nomination process linked below. The award will be given in the fall of 2011 and includes a US$ 125,000 prize and a specially commissioned sculpture designed by Maya Lin, the creator of the Vietnam War Memorial.
For more information see our website: http://bit.ly/fdYkZO.
Deadline: June 30, 2011

Equality and Human Rights Commission Report No. 72: The Impact of Counter Terrorism Measures on Muslim Communities
This independent, qualitative research looks at the impact of counter terror measures on Muslims in Britain, and if this was different from other people. It examines the diverse experiences of Muslims on the street and in the community, at ports and airports, and in mosques, schools and universities, as a result of counter terrorism measures: http://www.equalityhumanrights.com/publications/our-research/research-reports/research-reports-71/

New Refugee Studies Centre Resource DVD to be published in July 2011
The RSC will soon release the latest edition of its Resource DVD including all RSC publications to date since its establishment on one easily searchable DVD available free of charge. An indispensable tool for researchers, policy-makers and practitioners, the DVD aims improve the global availability of the Refugee Studies Centre's research and information resources on forced migration. It contains over 1700 items on 100 countries, most published within the last five years. All publications are available either as web pages or PDF files. They are subdivided by geographical area and by theme, including recent additions on statelessness, environmental change and migration, urban displacement, protection, research and methodology, and many more.
Please register your interest: Sign up to receive the DVD at: http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/resource-dvd-request

H-Human-Rights
H-Human-Rights is a discussion network for scholars, policymakers, authors, historians and other interested people devoted to the history, analysis, theory, and practice of human rights. It is a network developed and maintained by the Human Rights Section of the International Studies Association (HR-ISA).

The purpose of HR-ISA, and of the H-Human-Rights Network, is to encourage multidisciplinary debate, scholarship and teaching in the area of human rights. This includes those in the disciplines of political science, law, history, philosophy, economics, sociology, anthropology, and other related fields. It will foster discussion and other interaction between members of the ISA, as well as those outside of the ISA, with a view toward enhancing debate, academic research, policy development and teaching in the broad and varied area of human rights and related issues.

This list will enhance and expand discussion of issues not covered in related networks, for example: war crimes, crimes against humanity, torture, and other serious violations of human rights, and accountability for these, as well as civil and political rights, economic, social, and cultural rights, rights of women and rights of the child, and many more conventional and customary rights, as well as the political and institutional structures involved in addressing human rights.

The list, like HR-ISA, is not focused upon activism or advocacy of a particular viewpoint or advocacy with reference to a particular concrete situation, although discussion and analysis of particular situations are obviously welcome. Postings related to demonstrations, calls to action, and other activism are not allowed.

The list editors are:

Bethany Barrat, Roosevelt University
Melissa Labonte, Fordham University
Kurt Mills (Lead Editor), University of Glasgow Rebecca Root (Book Review Editor), SUNY-Geneseo

To subscribe, please visit the H-Human-Rights web page: http://www.h-net.org/~hrights/

Glasgow Human Rights Network Bulletin 16 May 2011

1. Events

School of Law Seminars 23 - 27 May 2011
Professor Jose Luis Llaquet Deentrambasaguas, Professor of Law at the University of Abat Oliba CEU, Barcelona, will be visiting The University of Glasgow from 23 - 27 May and will present three Seminars during his week long visit.

Each seminar will take place in the Gloag Lecture Theatre, School of Law, 5-9 Stair Building, The Square, University of Glasgow (A19 on the campus map)

Monday, 23rd May 3-5pm: ‘Freedom of Religion’
Wed, 25th May 3-5pm: ‘Conscientious Objection’
Fri, 27th May 3-4pm: ‘Jurisprudence of the ECHR’

A warm welcome is extended to University of Glasgow staff, Glasgow Human Rights Network members and all undergraduate and postgraduate students.

GHRN & SCIAF Public Seminar: Voices from Colombia’s Internal Armed Conflict
Monday 6 June, 18:00 – 20:00, University of Glasgow, Sir Charles Wilson Building, Room 101
The Colombian internal armed conflict has gone on for more than 4 decades. Despite the lack of media coverage, the ongoing struggle between guerrilla groups, paramilitaries and national armed forces has made Colombia the world leader in internally displaced people, with over 5.2 million forced to flee their homes since 1985. The conflict has resulted in land grabbing, assassinations, extrajudicial killings, threats, kidnappings and the loss of livelihoods.
Come along to this public seminar to hear from those who are fighting for their right to truth, justice, reparation and non-repetition of abuses.

Speakers:

Monseñor Héctor Fabio Henao (Caritas Colombia)
Mrs Mélida Esther Guevara (COCOMOPOCA)
Mr Jesús Alberto Castilla (CISCA)

Mgr Henao is a key negotiator between all parties to the conflict. Mrs Guevara is an Afro-Colombian community leader from the Chocó Department, working to help communities reclaim their lands. Mr Castilla is a peasant leader fighting for the restitution of land stolen by illegal armed groups in Catatumbo.
This event is free and open to all. Please pass on to anyone who may be interested.
For more information or to reserve your place please contact: mcamburn@sciaf.org.uk
www.sciaf.org.uk

GHRN Conference June 2012 - Protecting Human Rights: Duties and Responsibilities of States and Non-state Actors
Save These Dates! 18-19 June 2012
The Steering Committee of the APSA Human Rights Section, the Council of the IPSA Human Rights Research Committee, and the Executive Council of the ISA Human Rights Section announce their second joint conference on the theme “Protecting Human Rights: Duties and Responsibilities of States and Non-state Actors” to take place on 18-19 June 2012 at the University of Glasgow, hosted by the Glasgow Human Rights Network. This conference is timed to coincide with the joint ISA-BISA conference to be held immediately after in Edinburgh (20-22 June).

The conference will examine the following questions and topics, among others:

What is the nature of human rights responsibilities?
Have these responsibilities translated into appropriate action?
How do we define such appropriate action, and who holds these responsibilities?
How does the international community address conflicting responsibilities?
What types of human rights responsibilities do non-state actors have?
What is the relationship between rights, duties and responsibilities?
Dealing with past wrongs and failed responsibilities

A formal call for papers will be issued later this summer.

Download: June 2012 GHRN Conference Announcement

2. Opportunities

Internship opportunities with Scottish Human Rights Commission
There are two internship opportunities with the Commission available this summer. One placement will support engagement work and a second will contribute to mapping research work. Read more about the placement and find out how to apply at the SHRC website.
The closing date for applications is Monday 23 May. Please note that both these placements are offered on a voluntary basis.

Download:

BA in community development - BEMIS notice

For further information or an application form, please contact Tanveer Parnez (tanveer.parnez@bemis.org.uk)

Glasgow Human Rights Network Bulletin 15 April 2011

1. Events

Anne Frank Scotland: A History for Today
St Aloysius Parish Hall and Church, Springburn, 9 - 28 April 2011
Anne Frank Scotland invites you and your guests to two special evening events we are hosting this month. As part of our current community project in North Glasgow, funded by Sense over Sectarianism, our exhibition, Anne Frank: A History for Today, is on display and available for booked tours at St Aloysius Parish Hall and Church in Springburn from April 9th until 28th. Creative work contributed by volunteers and school pupils involved in the project will also be displayed at the venue.

There are also drop-in sessions where all are welcome to tour the exhibition and creative display. The exhibition is suitable for those aged 10 and over. The drop-in sessions will take place at the following dates and times:

Mon 11 April 6-8pm
Tues 12 April 1-3pm
Thurs 14 April 1-3pm
Sat 16 April 1-3pm (with refreshments)
Mon 18 April 1-3pm
Tue 19 April 6-8pm
Tue 26 April 1-3pm

Tours can be arranged for other dates and times by emailing scotland@annefrank.org.uk or by calling 07525 351803. Please leave a message with your contact details, when you would like to attend and how many places are required. (The same email address and telephone number should be used to book places for our evening events.)

The two special evening events have been arranged to complement the exhibition and creative display, in line with the aims and objectives of the project. On the evening of Wednesday 13 April, we are honoured to present a talk given by Henry Wuga, a Holocaust survivor and Kindertransportee. Our second evening event takes place on Thursday 28 April, when we are delighted to present a performance of 'The Uninvited' by Elizabeth Mansfield of Ensemble Theatre. Both events will be followed by a question and answer/discussion session, and those who wish to visit the exhibition and display are invited to do so prior to the talk/performance. Both events will take place at St Aloysius Parish Church (while the exhibition can be viewed in the adjoining Parish Hall); further details can be found in the attached flyer.

We do hope you are available to attend one or both of these events, and ask you to forward details of the events and open sessions to colleagues, clients, contacts and friends who you think may be interested in coming along.

Reception: Films for Human Rights Education in Schools
Tuesday 19 April 2011, 5.00 - 7.00pm The Goethe Institute, 3 Park Circus, Glasgow, G3 6AX
We would like to invite you to a reception and presentation at The Goethe Institute to mark the launch of an international cultural exchange between Document Festival & Perspektive with a focus on films for human rights education in schools.
RSVP: Paula Larkin 0141 332 9311 info@documentfilmfestival.org
Please see the event flyer for more information: 110419 Document Festival & Perspektive

Webcast: The Roots of the Revolution: Through the Eyes of Egyptian Youth
Monday 2 May 2011, 1.00pm
Join a live International webcast discussion. Egypt's youth were the engine that drove the revolution. Join a discussion with over one dozen of these remarkable young leaders as they share their experiences, hopes, and aspirations for their new Egypt. Also participating in this live event, via videoconference, will be a group of American youth from Boston, Massachusetts who will be asking questions of the Egyptian youth leaders.

The on-line discussion will be facilitated by prominent Northeastern University Professor Denis J. Sullivan. Mr. Sullivan is Director of Northeastern Univesity’s International Affairs program and its’ Middle East Center for Peace, Culture, and Development.
To register for this FREE event visit www.empowerpeace.org/revolution.
Registration begins on Monday, April 4, 2011.
Log-on Monday, May 2, 2011: This event is sponsored by: Empower Peace, www.empowerpeace.org
If your schedule does not permit you to participate in the live webcast, you can view it at your convenience @ www.empowerpeace.org starting Tuesday, May 3, 2011.

Each seminar will take place in the Gloag Lecture Theatre, School of Law, 5-9 Stair Building, The Square, University of Glasgow (A19 on the campus map)

Monday, 23rd May 3-5pm: ‘Freedom of Religion’
Wed, 25th May 3-5pm: ‘Conscientious Objection’
Fri, 27th May 3-4pm: ‘Jurisprudence of the ECHR’

A warm welcome is extended to University of Glasgow staff, Glasgow Human Rights Network members and all undergraduate and postgraduate students.

2. Call for Papers

Fences, Networks, People
Exploring the EU/AFRICA borderland
Pavia, Faculty of Political Sciences, 15-17 December 2011

Background
Over the last decade, growing scholarly and public attention has been attracted by the externalizing of Southern European borders into the African continent and by the increasingly restrictive migration policies of European nation-states. As a matter of fact, Europe has made (and is making) enormous investments in high-technology devices (satellites, surveillance systems, biometric data-bases) to secure its territory against what it sees as “waves” of migrants coming from and through Africa in search of political asylum or economic and educational opportunities. Efforts have been directed also at monitoring their movements once they reach the European Union while, regularly, media and political discourses have reacted to African political, economic and environmental crisis by warning against the risks of invasion from the other side of the Mediterranean Sea. Following old colonial ties, some member states and African governments have stipulated bilateral agreements meant to control migration and facilitate the repatriation of undocumented migrants and rejected asylum-seekers (e.g. Italy and Libya, France and Mali, Spain and Morocco).

A new de facto EU/AFRICA borderland is under establishment in Northern and Western Africa through the multiplication of physical border spaces (for instance the razor wire fences guarding off Ceuta and Melilla or migrant detention centres in the Sahara) and of border practices (navy patrols between the Canary Island and the West African coast, repatriation agreements, development programs targeted to keep Africans in Africa, and media campaigns against ‘illegal’ migration in sending countries). The impact of such transformations on the ground has only started to be detailed together with their effects on local socio-political contexts.
It has been argued, for example, that sovereignty is today measured against the state’s capacity to control flows of people across its territory. Yet, this point calls for some further theoretical consideration, as emergent border regimes are also affected by migrants’ experiences and creative reactions to changing circumstances. The different and often conflictive participation of state and non-state actors – like international organizations, NGOs, human rights activists, security companies, intermediaries of migrants’ travels across the Sahara and the Mediterranean Sea - in the management of human mobility is another topic worth discussing. Finally, there remains the challenging task to compare the EU/AFRICA borderland with similar (or dissimilar) processes of border securitization in other parts of the African continent, starting with South Africa.

This workshop aims to create a dialogue between specialists of African and European border studies. Such an encounter should be fruitful for a number of reasons. African border studies emphasize the (socially and politically) constructed nature of national territorial borders, and envisage the modes by which these are moulded through daily (social, cultural, economic, political) interactions. These studies also explicitly build on a rich geographical and historical comparative perspective, which opens up interesting thematic debates. The way in which African migrants themselves are interiorizing and reshaping European policies of border externalisation is one of the issues to address. Changing border laws often contribute to diverse and multi-local socio-economic interactions, and also considerably influence the experiences of migrants. The latter, in turn, continue to draw their daily construction of the EU/AFRICA borderland on long histories of intercontinental contact and cultural exchange. Papers that cast light on the interaction between border legislations, surveillance technologies and migrant experiences by in-depth ethnographic and historical analysis, as well as contributions exploring the lasting impact of such processes on the construction of African and European ideas of nationhood, territory and mobile identities, are highly welcome.

Organization
The workshop will be hosted by the Faculty of Political Sciences of Pavia University. It is co-organized by the University of Milan-Bicocca (‘Riccardo Massa’, Department of Human Sciences for Education), Zurich University (Department of Geography) and the University of Pavia (Faculty of Political Sciences; Department of Political and Social Studies; Centro Studi per i Popoli Extrauropei ‘Cesare Bonacossa’) with the financial contribution of the European Science Foundation and the intellectual support of the ABORNE.

ABORNE (http://www.aborne.org/) is an interdisciplinary network of researchers interested in all aspects of international borders and trans-boundary phenomena in Africa. Its emphasis is largely on borderlands as physical spaces and social spheres, but the network is also concerned with regional flows of people and goods as well as economic and social processes that may be located at some distance from the geographical border.

Those who wish to participate should send an abstracts of 500 words to Timothy Raeymaekers (timothy.raeymaekers@geo.uzh.ch) and Alice Bellagamba (alice.bellagamba@unimib.it) together with a short curriculum vitae by 30 April 2011. In accordance with the rules set by the European Science Foundation, speakers based in countries financing the networking program will be given preference in funding. These are Austria, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Additional funding is available for a limited number of participants from other European as well as African countries.

Since this is a closed workshop, all candidates will be selected on the basis of their abstracts and past credentials. The scientific committee will communicate its decision by 30 June 2011. Participants are required to contribute a paper of no more than 8.000 words (references included) by 30 October 2011.

Papers will be circulated before the workshop. A collection of essays to be published by Palgrave Macmillan in the ABORNE book series or by another publisher able to guarantee high quality and peer-review is planned.

3. Opportunities

Venice Academy of Human Rights: ‘Human Rights and the Cosmopolitan Idea(L)’
11 to 16 July, Venice (Italy)
The programme is dedicated to the topic “Human Rights and the Cosmopolitan Idea(L)”. The Academy offers interdisciplinary (Law, Philosophy, Sociology, Political Science, Religious Studies) thematic programmes open to academics, practitioners and Ph.D./J.S.D. students from all over the world. It will include lectures by, inter alia, Professors Abdullahi A. An-Na'im, David Held, Yasuaki Onuma, Boaventura de Sousa Santos and Mary Robinson (Former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights). Last year the Academy was honored by the key lecture of the Nobel Prize Laureate Amartya Sen.

The Academy offers the opportunity to participate in high level lectures, seminars and workshops and facilitates exchange of views, ideas and arguments with leading international scholars and other experts. In this environment participants can also present and discuss their "work in progress" such as articles, theses, books, chapters of books or practical projects.

Info: http://www.eiuc.org/veniceacademy
E-Mail: veniceacademy@eiuc.org
Deadline for Application: 25 April 2011.

The European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation (EIUC) is a main European Academic institution supported by the European Union and formed by 41 European Universities.

4. Resources

First Comprehensive Guide to European Non-discrimination Law Launched
The first comprehensive guide to European non-discrimination law was launched by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) and the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg on 21 March, the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.

The Handbook on European Non-Discrimination Law, published jointly by the Fundamental Rights Agency and the European Court of Human Rights, is the first comprehensive guide to European non-discrimination law. It is based on the case law of the European Court of Human Rights and the European Court of Justice. It covers: the context and background to European non-discrimination law (including the UN human rights treaties), discrimination categories and defences, the scope of the law (including who is protected) and the grounds protected, such as sex, disability, age, race and nationality.

The handbook is aimed at legal practitioners at national and European level, including judges, prosecutors, lawyers, law-enforcement officials, and others involved in giving legal advice, such as national human rights institutions, equality bodies and legal advice centres, to whom it will be distributed.

It can also be consulted on-line or downloaded (see www.fra.europa.eu) and there is an accompanying CD-Rom dealing with the relevant legislation, specialist literature, case studies and case-law summaries.

It is already available in English, French and German. Versions in Bulgarian, Czech, Hungarian, Italian, Romanian, Spanish, Greek and Polish will follow shortly and the material will eventually be available in almost all EU languages as well as Croatian.

HURIDOCS Questionnaire on a Human Rights Portal
HURIDOCS, in association with other Geneva-based organizations, is creating a Human Rights Portal that will facilitate access to online information from the various Human Rights mechanisms of the United Nations. In order to better understand you information needs and develop new tools, we would appreciate your participation in this brief online survey:  https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dGdpczRRUEx0QUdLM1hUdWtKaEFydGc6MQ#gid=0

Oxford Monitor of Forced Migration (OxMo)
We would like to announce the launch of the inaugural edition of the Oxford Monitor of Forced Migration (OxMo) - the first student authored, edited, and managed journal dedicated to protecting and advancing the human rights of forced migrants.

As an independent publication, OxMo moves to engage with forced migration by establishing a forum in which students and forced migrants can meaningfully contribute to the global discourse that intersects academia and practice. In particular, OxMo seeks to draw attention to the plight of displaced persons, to identify gaps within existing international and national protection regimes, and to engage intellectually with the many practical and conceptual factors that perpetuate dislocation. We are committed to presenting critical yet balanced analyses of social, political, and legal issues pertaining to displacement, asylum and return, placing emphasis on monitoring the policies and actions of governments, international organisations, and NGOs. Equally, OxMo endeavours to give expression to innovative undertakings that strive to counter and alleviate forced migration predicaments. We also provide a space for persons who have been or are currently displaced to present their unique insight.

To find out more about OxMo and to access OxMo Vol. 1 No.1 free of charge please visit our website www.oxmofm.com.

This issue includes short essays and academic articles from authors in Afghanistan, Australia, Brazil, Egypt, Ecuador, Hong Kong, the UK, and the USA. Our eleven contributors have drawn from first hand experiences, their own academic research and knowledge gleaned from being in the field and working in human and refugee rights advocacy. Amongst others, in the Monitor section, Alice Taylor discusses the threat of persecution resulting from socio-political activism in Colombia and the ways in which it has critically affected the role of IDP women leaders. In First Hand, Alberto Grajales García shares his reflections on his journey towards obtaining a refugee visa. In the Academic Articles section, James Souter unpacks the parallel notions of ‘cultures of disbelief’ and ‘cultures of denial’ and examines the impact of such trends on reducing the opportunity for asylum seekers to secure protection in the UK.

We would like to announce that we are expanding our forum to include a new section on our webpage called ‘From Academia, Policy and Practice’, to enable the continuation of discussion and debate initiated by articles featured in OxMo. We invite academics, practitioners, and policy makers to offer responses to ideas or arguments put forth by contributing authors, in the form of a brief commentary. We also welcome short essays that delineate specific aspects or concerns that may serve to direct students towards particular issues that require further scholarship. This will be a chance for professionals to impart their knowledge and to share their thought and experiences with students, forced migrants and others working in the field. We hope that this initiative fosters greater discourse between policy and practice, students and academics, as well as organisations and the individuals they strive to serve. Please email submissions to oxmofm@googlemail.com.

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3. Call for papers

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1. Events

2. Call for Papers

3. Opportunities

4. Resources