A Public Workshop with UBC Graduate Students
Gulf Islands Secondary School, Multipurpose Room, January 8 & 9, 2011
Saturday, January 8:
2:30-2:45 PM Introduction and Welcomes
2:45-3:45 PM
Matt Robinson (USA) & Tyler Harbottle (Canada): “From Statelessness to Global Citizenship”
3:45-4:45 PM
Calyn Shaw (Canada): “Gay Rights are Human Rights: Canada’s role in the struggle for international LGBT Rights”
Frank Halderman (Canada): “Virtuous Circles? Canadian laws and international human rights”
4:45-5:00 PM Coffee/Tea
5:00-6:00 PM
Hannah van Voorthuysen (New Zealand), “Would the decriminalization of prostitution enhance human rights? A comparative analysis”
Ji-Eun Kim (South Korea): “Child Prostitution and International Law”
6:00-7:00 PM
Chantelle Belle (Canada): “Drug Policy: Is there an International Consensus?”
Sam Eifling (USA): “When Rights Conflict: Do safe-injection sites raise competing human rights concerns?
Sunday, January 9:
9:00-9:30 AM Coffee/Tea/Muffins
9:30-10:30 AM
Marc Levesque (Canada) & Scott Goosenberg (Canada): “Indigenous rights and environment protection: Can international law save the Beaver Lake Cree?”
10:30-10:45 AM Coffee/Tea
10:45-12:15 PM
Joshua Freedman (USA): “Is Water a Human Rights Issue?”
Shannon Dooling (USA): “The Human Right to Water: International Law and the Millennium Development Goals”
Gihan Indraguptha (Sri Lanka): "Water as a Human Right - International dimensions of trans-boundary water"
12:15-1:00 PM Lunch
1:00-2:30 PM
Pablo Antezana Quiroga (Bolivia), “Water, development, and the public-private debate: alternatives for a pro-poor policy”
David Morgan (Canada): “Recognizing the human right to water - A Canadian concern?”
Mo Al Mehairbi (United Arab Emirates): “The Right to Survive: Water Access in the Vancouver Downtown Eastside”
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