Save the Dates: Fall Human Rights Conferences

Save the dates for these upcoming Human Rights conferences:

(1) Northeastern University Law School’s Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy announces its 10th Annual Human Rights Institute: “Tapping into the Human Right to Water: Accessibility, Affordability and Quality,” November 5th and 6th, 2015, at Northeastern University School of Law in Boston, MA.  The Institute will bring together advocates, activists and academics to discuss and strategize concerning growing US right to water crisis.  For more information, contact Jillian Tuck, j.tuck@neu.edu.

(2)  Addressing the human right to water on a global scale, on October 20, 2015, the University of Connecticut’s Institute of Comparative Human Rights will convene global experts, activists, officials, and scholars from around the world to examine the scope and nature of global water crisis, to discuss the legal and institutional basis of the human rights to water and sanitation, and to consider some innovations and best practices that have been implemented or advocated around the world.  More information about this gathering is available here.

       (3)  The University of Dayton is hosting the biennial conference The Social Practice of Human         Rights: Charting the Frontiers of Research and Advocacy on October 1-3, 2015. The         conference will take place at the University of Dayton’s River campus and organizers have                 lined up an exciting series of events and guest speakers.  More information is available here.