Echenberg Human Rights Fellows

05/24/2012

Job with UNICEF in Uganda - ICT4D

04/21/2012

Fellows Rebecca Hamilton and Jina Moore have contributed a chapter to an e-book on Kony 2012 edited by Wronging Rights blogger Amanda Taub. Check it out here. A description below:

03/29/2012

A key objective of the Centre is to deepen transdisciplinary collaboration on the complex social, ethical, political and philosophical dimensions of human rights. The current Centre initiative builds upon the human rights legacy and enormous scholarly engagement found in the Universal Declartion of...

03/24/2012

03/24/2012

Camels mean cash in Kenya. But severe drought routinely kills off livestock, and families go bankrupt, unless they have an innovative insurance plan.

03/24/2012

Dr . Payam Akhavan, is a former UN Prosecutor at The Hague, he advised the Ugandan Government on the LRA case before the ICC as part of a broader strategy of isolating and defeating Kony in 2003-2...

03/14/2012

Until I hit play on an old-school Walkman last month, I had forgotten that it was possible for my full name to be said with so much love.

03/11/2012

I know Glenna Gordon from her time in Uganda and she was one of the few American journalists who covered the later stages of the Kony war in northern Uganda. She was part of a group of journalists ...

03/11/2012

Over the last few days I have received thousands of emails in response to the video I put out in response to KONY2012. Most of the emails were from grateful people who had learnt something from my ...

03/11/2012

For the last many hours i have followed a campaign by Invisible Children NGO called KONY2012 that has gone viral getting more than 20 million hits on Youtube. I am a story teller and i know the dan...

02/21/2012

International Forum for Young Leaders - Global Conference on Democracy, Human Rights and the Fragility of Freedom - March 2013
Deadline: April 13, 2012

The Global Conference on Democracy, Human Rights and the Fragility of Freedom will be held at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, March 21-23, 2013. This will be the third Echenberg Family Conference on Human Rights. Before each of these conferences, a Young Leaders Forum is held; Alumni of each Young Leaders Forum become McGill Echenberg Human Rights Fellows and remain active in a vibrant community of human rights professionals around the world. This third conference will provide a unique networking opportunity for like-minded young leaders from around the world, allowing them to engage with each other and work with some of the Conference’s distinguished speakers.

The Young Leaders will address key issues around democratic citizenship, the protection of fundamental rights and freedoms, including the violent repression of democracy and economic and social rights, as well as the role of transnationalism, globalization and foreign policy in democracy. Young Leaders will have the opportunity to develop practical skills in human rights advocacy, including in the use of social media and community-building to effect change.

One of the main goals of the International Forum for Young Leaders is to share practical tools and experiences while engaging with these Conference themes.

We now invite applications from young professionals and scholars who can make to the promotion of democratic issues and human rights, both in their own countries and in the international arena. Download the full call for applications, which also contains the application form, and a reference form: application_youngleaders2013.pdf

http://www.mcgill.ca/humanrights/

10 Oct 2011 - Prof. Akhavan, in Cairo to give a lecture ("From Tehran to Tahrir: The Coming of Age of the Middle East"), in Tahrir Square during a protest against the killings of Coptic Christians.

02/12/2012

If you missed this great event with Fellow Rebecca Hamilton, Kyle Matthews and Prof. Payam Akhavan, catch the audio here.