Dear members, Below is a compilation of requests for information sent to the Global Human Rights Education listserv during the past three weeks. At the bottom of each request you will find an e-mail address, so that you can respond to the request directly. ----------------------- CONTENTS 1. Looking for continuing education in human rights 2. Seeking information on women's rights and LL.M fellowship programmes 3. Call for papers SUR Journal special issue on transitional justice +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1. LOOKING FOR CONTINUING EDUCATION IN HUMAN RIGHTS Respected colleagues, I am a refugee from Myanmar to India. I completed higher secondary school (10+2 years) education in Computer Sciences in India. I was very interesting in human rights work and NGO issues. I wish that if there is any institution or college to study degree course human rights study. I participated the 24th Session of UNWGIP and UNITAR training for indigenous peoples. I wish that if I can have proper degree in human rights studies I would do social and political based on human rights for my people. Thanking you Yours faithfully Mr. T.K.Thanga (Salai Thangte) E-mail: < > ---------- 2. SEEKING INFORMATION ON WOMEN'S RIGHTS AND LL.M FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMMES Dear Sir/Madam, I will appreciate if you can include me in your Listing. Information about women's rights and LL.M fellowships programs in this area is preferred. Evelyn Nebechi Okwara LL.B Hons. (UNN) E-mail: < > ---------- 3. CALL FOR PAPERS SUR JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE ON TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE Sur - Human Rights University Network and the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) welcome contributions to be published in a Special Issue of Sur - International Journal on Human Rights on Transitional Justice. The Sur Journal is published twice a year, distributed free of charge to approximately 2,700 readers in over 100 countries. It is edited in three languages: English, Portuguese and Spanish and can also be accessed online at http://www.surjournal.org. The Journal aims at disseminating a Global Southern perspective on human rights and to facilitate exchange among professors and activists from the Global South without disregarding contributions from other regions. For our next issue - No. 7 -, we will prioritize articles which, preferentially but not exclusively, address the following topics related to the debate of transitional justice: * Prosecutions: Criminal justice is an essential part of an integrated response to massive human rights violations, and should be pursued whenever possible. While prosecutions must necessarily focus on the accused, these efforts should also aim to restore victims' dignity and public confidence in the rule of law. * Truth Seeking: In an increasing number of countries, local actors have begun to emphasize nonjudicial truth-seeking measures. These have often taken the form of truth commissions - official inquiries into patterns of past abuse that seek to establish an accurate historical record of events. * Reparations: How does a nation seek to repair harm, restore rights, and build trust when victims number in the thousands over a period of many years? * Vetting: The screening and vetting of individuals, particularly in the security and justice sectors, is widely recognized as a key measure of governance reform essential to: overcoming legacies of past conflict or authoritarian rule; preventing the recurrence of abuses; and building fair and efficient public institutions. * Memory: Memorials for past atrocities and human rights abuses are places of mourning, and in some cases, healing, for victims and survivors. But the designers of these memorials also want to communicate to broader audiences; to educate people about the past; and to proclaim "Never Again". These two sets of goals are not always perfectly compatible, resulting in periodic tensions between them. As aforementioned, these themes are not exclusive, but only preferential. Sur Journal issue No. 7 will also include some articles dealing with general human rights topics. Format Contributions should be sent in electronic form (MS Word format) to surjournal@surjournal.org and should follow these guidelines: -Between 7,000 and 10,000 words. -Concise and objective footnotes. (Please find at the end of this text the rules for citation.) -Short biography of author with a maximum of 50 words. -Abstract with no more than 150 words, including keywords for the required bibliographical classification. -Date when the paper was written. Only submissions received by May 15, 2007 will be considered for issue No. 7. Articles received after that date will be considered for subsequent issues. Ideally articles should be original and unpublished. Exceptionally, however, relevant contributions already published elsewhere may be accepted, provided that the required authorizations are granted. Please inform if, where and when the paper has been published before. Contributions will be evaluated by at least two members of the Editorial or the Consultative Board of the Sur Journal and, whenever necessary, also by external specialists. For this special issue, contributions will also be evaluated by a member of the ICTJ. Any suggested changes will be submitted to the authors and published only with their explicit authorization. As the Journal is distributed free of charge, we are unfortunately unable to remunerate our contributors. Sur Journal uses Creative Commons license 2.5. Juana Kweitel Conectas Direitos Humanos Rua Pamplona, 1197 casa 4 SEo Paulo - SP 01405-030 Brasil Tel 5511 3884-7440 Fax 5511 3884-1122 www.conectas.org ======== Global Human Rights Education listserv ======= Send mail intended for the list to < >. 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