The Engaging Hearts and Minds: Human Rights and Social Justice Issues Today Conference will be held May 6 & 7, 2013, Centennial College, Toronto, Canada.
Proposals are invited by February 15, 2013, in the following areas:
•Human rights issues – children, women, persons with disabilities and older persons
•Indigenous peoples, social and cultural rights
•Human rights commissions around the world
•Truth and reconciliation commissions around the world
•Internal displacements, internal migration, global migrants
•Civil and political rights, freedom of expression
•Human rights defenders, detentions, torture, executions
•Correlates of war
•Civilian perspectives on war
•Use of technology in war – robotics, drones
•Transitioning of veterans from combat to campus
•War and healing: reintegration and rehabilitation of people and communities
For more details on the conference, keynote speakers, submission process and other material, please visit the conference website.