Dear Conference participants,

Our CRN focuses on the collective human rights - the rights of peoples. 18 papers are being presented by network members in specially organised sessions, on a range of topics relating to collective human rights. We hope other conference participants will join us to discuss this area of emerging concern in international human rights dialogue. Our final session is a roundtable discussion which is open to all.

If you have any questions about this CRN in advance of the Berlin meeting, please feel free to contact the convenor, Amy Maguire, at amymaguire1@gmail.com

Sessions organised by the CRN 25 - Collective Human Rights

CRN 25 Session 1: Theorising Collective Rights

Wednesday, 25 July, 10.15am-12pm

Presenters:
Solomon Ayele Dersso, ‘Minority rights under international human rights law’
Ciarán MacGiolla Bhéin, ‘Identity in Ireland: Loss and reinvention’
Miodrag Jovanović, ‘Are there universal collective rights?’
Sandra Segaram Paramalingam, ‘The concept of social identity’

Amy Maguire

CRN 25 Session 2: Self-determination

Wednesday, 25 July, 4.30pm-6.15pm

Presenters:
Feargal MacIonnrachtaigh, ‘Language and colonialism in Ireland’
Amy Maguire, ‘Self-determination in the twenty-first century’
Kristina Roepstorff, ‘Reconciling the collective right of self-determination with the liberal concept of human rights’

Miodrag Jovanović

CRN 25 Session 3: Indigenous peoples, land and autonomy

Thursday, 26 July, 10.15am-12pm

Presenters:
Sandra Brunnegger, ‘The Colombian Constitutional Court: Early instances in the acknowledgment of Indigenous rights’
Signa A Daum Shanks, ‘Can the notion of “exclusive use” disappear in law? Predicting how an Aboriginal claim responds to this question’
Ophir Sefiha, 'Sacred mountains and sacred dollars: Multiple discourses surrounding snowmaking on the San Francisco peaks'
Kevin Williams, ‘The Re-interpretation of Australian Indigenous history and law in the age of the neo-conservatives’

Chair:
Deirdre Howard-Wagner

CRN 25 Session 4: Contemporary issues for Indigenous peoples

Thursday, 26 July, 2.30pm-4.15pm

Presenters:
Phil Falk, ‘Indigenous Australians and the new anti-terrorism laws’
Bruce Feldthusen, ‘The baker did it: Tort law and sexual abuse in Indian residential schools’
Deirdre Howard-Wagner, ‘“The market is the only thing that is universal”: The containing and remapping of Indigenous rights’

Signa Daum Shanks

CRN 25 Session 5: ‘New collectives’: Twenty-first century applications of collective human rights

Saturday, 28 July, 8.15am-10am

Presenters:
Julinda Beqiraj, ‘International protection of migrant workers’ rights’
Zoe Godolphin, ‘The World Bank, education and collective rights’
Emma Henderson, ‘Re/Moving the State: Citizenship, asylum and the Australian Designated Unauthorised Arrivals Bill 2006’
Paddy Hillyard and Amy Maguire, ‘Re-imagining women’s security through the lens of collective human rights’

Feargal MacIonnrachtaigh

CRN 25 Session 6: Roundtable discussion

Saturday, 28 July, 4.30pm-6.15pm

All network members, and any other conference attendees, are welcome to attend this informal discussion session. We will use this time to explore the common themes to have emerged across the five paper sessions, and to plan future opportunities for collaboration and publication.