Lincoln (Neb.) - Sept. 27, 2001 - A two-day conference called "Global Human Rights and Diversity: Area Expressions" will explore how global standards of human rights are understood in different areas of the world.
The conference will be held Oct. 12-13 on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln City Campus and at the Cornhusker Hotel. All panels and speeches are free and open to the public.
Sudanese scholar Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im, professor of law at Emory University in Atlanta, will be the keynote speaker.
Panels will address how human rights and diversity are manifested in Europe, Africa and Asia, and the Middle East and Islamic world. Discussion topics will include: whether particular geographical areas are resistant to or supportive of particular internationally recognized human rights; whether there can be a meaningful synthesis between western and non-western understandings of human rights; and whether countries can beneficially be grouped into analytical rather than geographical areas for purposes of understanding human rights practices.
Oct. 12 activities will be held at the Nebraska Union and the Cornhusker Hotel from 8:45 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. An-Na'im will speak at the Cornhusker Hotel at 7:45 p.m. on Oct. 13. Other second-day activities will be held at the College of Business Administration from 9 a.m. to 6:45 p.m.
For more conference information, contact Barbara Ann Rieffer,
assistant conference coordinator by e-mail (brieffe1@bigred.unl.edu) or
telephone (402) 472-3217. Event sponsors are the Human Rights and Human
Diversity initiative at UNL and the Ford Foundation.
For questions regarding these releases, contact:
tsimons1@unl.edu
(402) 472-8514, Fax: (402) 472-7825