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Human Rights Conference Round-up: Education, Immigration, and Children’s Rights

By humanrightsathome

It’s conference season, and human rights issues are the focus for many upcoming events.  Here are three that are worth a look:

On November 6-7, 2014, the Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy (PHRGE) of Northeastern University School of Law (NUSL) will host its annual Human Rights Institute at NUSL in Boston.  This year’s Institute, titled Rethinking Education Reform: A Human Rights Perspective, will analyze and evaluate the combination of initiatives known as “public education reform.” It will do so with an eye toward identifying policies that will help promote and support the human right to education (alongside all other human rights) for all U.S. school children.  The 2014 Institute will focus on three themes: (1) the charter school movement and the broader trend toward the private provision of public education services; (2) the emergence of “no excuses/zero tolerance” discipline policies resulting in the exclusion of students from school; and (3) the continued expansion of high-stakes testing as the principal means of motivating and measuring educational achievement in public schools, alongside related efforts to further standardize public school curricula.  For more information and to register, click here.

The 20th Annual Herbert Rubin and Justice Rose Luttan Rubin International Law Symposium will be held on November 6, 2014, at NYU Law School.  The Symposium, entitled “The Human Rights of Migrants: From Treaty to Reality,” will examine the potency of international human rights law within the United States. In particular, it will focus on how international human rights perspectives could help the U.S. and other nations reframe national immigration debates to find more humane and functional societal solutions than those currently in place.  More information is available here.

Finally, for a comparative perspective, check out Conference 25 Years CRC, part of a multi-day celebration of the 25th Anniversary of the Children’s Rights Convention in Leidin, The Netherlands, from November 17 – 20, 2014.  As part of the festivities, Leidin Law School will host the two-day conference, November 17-18, bringing together children’s rights academics, professionals and students from the four corners of the globe, for a program full of discussion and reflection on the past and future impact of the CRC on topical issues of the children’s rights agenda.  The week’s events will also include the Leiden Children’s Rights Summit on Universal Children’s Day, 20 November 2014, the Leiden Freedom Lecture, an international moot court competition on children’s rights for students, and the inaugural lecture of Prof Julia Sloth-Nielsen on the 17th of November 2014.  Among the keynote speakers is Bernadine Dohrn, retired clinical professor at Northwestern University and champion of U.S. children’s rights and human rights.  More information is available here.