Annual Conference 2011: Programme details

The programme for the conference Human Rights at Home: an agenda for fairness followed three themes aiming to enable delegates to consider the role and applications of human rights to achieve fairness in times of austerity 
and political change:

 
  • Human rights realities: Ten years on
  • Human Rights: Prospects and Problems
  • Human Rights in Action (kindly supported by NCVO Campaigning Effectiveness) 
 
Speakers, panel discussion, workshops and interactive learning gave delegates the opportunity to participate in an assessment of how human rights have been brought to life in the last ten years, gain practical insights that can be applied in a broad range of contexts in the future, and explore the challenges and conundrums facing policy-makers, service providers and those in the voluntary sector working to promote and defend equality.

 

Morning Programme 9.30am - 1.15pm

 
Morning Chair: Professor Francesca Klug, London School of Economics
 
Registration
 
 
Testimony Panel: Human rights realities - Ten years of the Human Rights Act
Speakers include:
 
 
Coffee
 
Workshops
  • Human rights in action: today’s examples for tomorrow’s challenges
  • Prospects & Problems: human rights in an age of austerity
  • Prospects & Problems: human rights and localism
 
 

Afternoon Programme 2pm - 4.45pm

 
 
Workshops
  • Human rights in action: today’s examples for tomorrow’s challenges
  • Prospects & Problems: Human rights in a ‘big society’ 
  • Human rights in action: using human rights for campaigns with bite
 
Coffee
 
Setting your agenda: an interactive session to put the day's learning into your context
 
Closing keynote: Stephen Bowen, Director, British Institute of Human Rights, Human rights at home: an agenda for action 
 

 

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