On January 27-28, the Governance & Human Rights Hub of the Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies held a highly successful workshop on human rights. The theme of this years workshop was Contracting Human Rights: Crisis, Accountability, and Opportunity.
This workshop focused on global and local challenges to human rights in the areas of gaps, backlash, and accountability — and new opportunities that point the way forward. The presenters represented a wide range of international scholarship from the U.S., Mexico, Spain, Austria, the U.K., and Denmark, with backgrounds in law, political science, sociology, history, and communication. Papers examined the challenges to human rights in a global perspective, including rights problems in Europe, the Middle East, Latin America and the U.S. Additionally, papers were selected which analyzed trends across multiple issue-areas of international institutions, development struggles, humanitarian action, censorship and communications, discrimination, democracy promotion, human trafficking, counter-terrorism, corporate social responsibility, civil society and social movements, and environmental destruction.
Schedule of Presentations / Speakers
Friday, January 27
9:00-9:15 – Introduction
9:15-10:00 – Alison Brysk
Contracting Human Rights: Refugees and the Citizenship Gap
10:00-10:45 – Gershon Shafir
How Has the Occupation Occupied Israel?
— 15 Minute Break —
11:00-11:45 – Claire Wright
11:45-12:30 – Feryal Cherif
A Resource Curse? Oil and Women’s Rights
— 30 Minute Lunch —
1:00-1:45 – Natasha Bennett
The Bottom Two Billion as Second-Class Citizens
Additional files: Improved Sanitation Map — Infant Mortality Map
1:45-2:30 – George Andreopoulos
2:30-3:15 – Kirsten Ainley
State Power, Head of State Immunicty and the Crisis at the International Criminal Court
— 15 Minute Break —
3:30-4:15 – Keith Watenpaugh
4:15-5:00 – Michael Etter
Business and Human Rights: Exploring an Expanding Agenda on Corporate Responsibility
Saturday, January 27
9:00-9:45 – Clair Apodaca
Human Rights Costs of NGOs’ Naming and Shaming Campaigns
9:45-10:30 – Philip Ayoub
Perils of Success: Backlash and Resistance to LGBT rights in Domestic and International Politics
10:30-11:15 – Felipe Gomez Isa
— 15 Minute Break —
11:30-12:15 – Wayne Sandholtz
Backlash and International Human Rights Courts
12:15-1:00 – Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi
From Lawless to Secret Law: The United States, the CIA, and Extra-Judicial Killings
— 30 Minute Lunch —
1:30-2:15 – John Kirk Boyd
Through the Eyes of Astronauts
2:15-3:30 – Anthony Chase
Sexual Rights: Bow to the Backlash?
3:45-4:30 – Jesilyn Faust
Islamic Feminism and the Way Forward: Women’s Rights in Morocco
4:30-5:15 – Cynthia & Michael Stohl
Digital Media and Human Rights Organizing