[csaa-forum] Advance Notice: Book Launch by Michael Kirby

[Baden Offord]

Advance Notice

Activating Human Rights
edited by Elisabeth Porter and Baden Offord

to be launched by
Justice Michael Kirby

Friday 3 November 2006
6.00pm
Gleebooks, Sydney

  RSVP: gleebooks 9660 2333 or www.gleebooks.com.au/events

This book is based on papers originally presented at the
international conference 'Activating Human Rights and Diversity' held 
in Australia in 2003.
http://www.scu.edu.au/research/cpsj/

Contents
Part One: Theory & Action
Contents: Elisabeth Porter/Baden Offord: Introduction: Activating Human Rights
Baden Offord: Activating Human Rights through Questions of Value and Activism
Jim Ife: Human Rights beyond the 'Three Generations'
Carl F. Stychin: Same-Sex Sexualities and the Globalisation of Human Rights
Monica McWilliams: Human Rights and Conflict Resolution

Part Two: Organisational Defences
Sam Garkawe: 'Amnesty for Truth': A Violation of Human Rights by 
South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission?
Lara Fergus: Activating Women's Human Rights: Side Steps and Leaps 
Forward at Amnesty International
Michael Morison: Democratisation and Capacity-Building: An 
Uncomfortable Alliance in the East Timor National Elections 2001-2002

Part Three: International Contexts
Chee Soon Juan: Human Rights: Dirty Words in Singapore
Kulwant Singh: The Resolution of Property Rights of Refugees and 
Displaced Persons and Ethnic Crisis Management: Bosnia Herzegovina 
and Kashmir Compared
Kiikpoye K. Aaron: Human Rights Violation and Environmental 
Degradation in Nigeria

Part Four: Activating Particular Rights
Gerard Goggin/Christopher Newell: Reclaiming Civility: Disability, 
Diversity and Human Rights
Chantal Nadeau: Same-Sex Domestic Rights and Nationalist Politics
Irene Watson: Internationalising, Humanising and Diversifying: The 
One Nation State.

A Special  Discounted Price will be available at the launch.

gleebooks 49 Glebe Point Road, Glebe NSW 2037
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