Women & Human Rights Forum

Women & Human Rights: Building a community of practice
Wednesday 3 December 2008, 9am - 4pm

All UTS women and community partners who work or have an interest in women's rights, international development, gender equity, and social justice are invited to attend this forum.

You can expect to actively contribute, to network and share knowledge, to meet women with expertise and experience and to develop a shared repertoire of resources - to build a community of practice.

The forum will explore through speakers, presentations and small group conversations:

• the challenges and advantages of using a human rights framework to address gender issues
• the roles and responsibilities of academics and activists/practitioners/policy makers
• the connections between local experience and global issues
• the range of research/work in these areas
• what are the inherent possibilities and tensions of work in this area?

Confirmed speakers include Deb Chapman, International Women's Development Agency, Jennifer Burn, UTS Anti-Slavery Project, Johanna Adriaanse, UTS, International Working Group on Women and Sport, Professor Tuychieva Gulkhumor, Gender development, Uzbekistan and Kyungja Jung, UTS, Women's activism in migrant communities in Australia.

Indigenous speaker/s to be confirmed.

The program will be sent out closer to the event.

Venue:

Level 6 Training Room

UTS Building 10, 235 Jones St (off Broadway)

There will be no charge to attend but please RSVP for catering to: Joanna.Leonard@uts.edu.au   ph: 9514 1274

Sponsors

The Don Chipp Foundation
Women@UTS Program, Equity & Diversity Unit, UTS
Cosmopolitan Civil Societies (CCS), UTS