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Third Human Rights Summit SFSU/UCB
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Date:
Tuesday, May 02, 2006
Time:
11:00 AM
-
6:00 PM
Event Type:
Panel Discussion
Organizer/Author:
Celia Alves
Location Details:
SFSU: May 2, 3, and 5; Jack Adams Hall: Cesar Chaves Student Center
UCB: May 4; 101 Archeological Research Facility (ARF)
UCB: May 4; 101 Archeological Research Facility (ARF)
Third Human Rights Summit at SFSU/UCB
May 2-5, 2006, 10am to 6pm
This year’s summit -- “The Roots of Our Future. The Human Rights of Children” -- addresses human rights issues related to health, education, and everyday violence against youth in the current situation of modernity and globalization. The event includes talks by human rights scholars and activists, film festival, student panels, poetry, dance, and drumming performances by Youth Speaks, Grrrl Brigade, Malcolm X Academy Polynesian Dance Group, Navarrete x Kajiyama Dance Theater, and the Breaking Success Performance Workshop. In addition, the public may take part in an assortment of workshops, including Self-Defense, Gay Student Rights, and Stop Violence Against Children! There will be a multimedia gallery filled with photo exhibits and posters addressing the rights of the child. Featured speakers include Nancy Scheper-Hughes (UCB), Philippe Bourgois (UCSF), and Gil Herdt (SFSU). Participating organizations include Amnesty International, Book not Bars, La Clinica Martin Barrio, and Women’s Choice Clinic.
For more information information visit:
http://humanrights.sfsu.edu/summit3.html
Free admission
Contact:
Celia Alves
celiariviere@yahoo.com
Mariana Leal Ferreira, PhD
Global Peace, Human Rights and Justice Studies
Program Director
San Francisco State University
Department of Anthropology
1600 Holloway Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94132
Phone (415) 405 2467
Fax (415) 338 0530
marianaf@sfsu.edu
May 2-5, 2006, 10am to 6pm
This year’s summit -- “The Roots of Our Future. The Human Rights of Children” -- addresses human rights issues related to health, education, and everyday violence against youth in the current situation of modernity and globalization. The event includes talks by human rights scholars and activists, film festival, student panels, poetry, dance, and drumming performances by Youth Speaks, Grrrl Brigade, Malcolm X Academy Polynesian Dance Group, Navarrete x Kajiyama Dance Theater, and the Breaking Success Performance Workshop. In addition, the public may take part in an assortment of workshops, including Self-Defense, Gay Student Rights, and Stop Violence Against Children! There will be a multimedia gallery filled with photo exhibits and posters addressing the rights of the child. Featured speakers include Nancy Scheper-Hughes (UCB), Philippe Bourgois (UCSF), and Gil Herdt (SFSU). Participating organizations include Amnesty International, Book not Bars, La Clinica Martin Barrio, and Women’s Choice Clinic.
For more information information visit:
http://humanrights.sfsu.edu/summit3.html
Free admission
Contact:
Celia Alves
celiariviere@yahoo.com
Mariana Leal Ferreira, PhD
Global Peace, Human Rights and Justice Studies
Program Director
San Francisco State University
Department of Anthropology
1600 Holloway Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94132
Phone (415) 405 2467
Fax (415) 338 0530
marianaf@sfsu.edu
Added to the calendar on Tue, Apr 4, 2006 9:55PM
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