5th WORLDWIDE CONFERENCE OF THE GLOBAL ALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE EDUCATION
December 2008 Philippine Islands
http://www.gaje.org/Conf08
GAJE will hold its 5th global conference in the Philippines in
December 2008. The conference will be hosted by the Ateneo Human
Rights Center (AHRC), a university-based institution engaged in the
promotion and protection of human rights in the Philippines, in
collaboration with Bridges Across Borders (BAB), a non-governmental
organization working in Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Malaysia,
Singapore, Ireland, the United States, Mexico, Panama and Colombia.
The primary venue will be the Law School of Ateneo de Manila
University, located in the City of Makati in metropolitan Manila. The
work of the AHRC includes curriculum development, values formation and
internship programs for legal education, and the promotion of the
rights of children, women, migrant workers and indigenous peoples. The
AHRC also serves as the secretariat of the Human Rights Standing
Committee of the Law Association for Asia and the Pacific (LAWASIA).
Bridges Across Borders works on a wide variety of initiatives in
community development and capacity-building, child protection and
education, transitional justice and community legal education.
The conference program will include opportunities to learn about local
justice education activities, such as the AHRC internship program, in
which law students are introduced to the field of alternative or
developmental law practice through exposure to grassroots life and to
human rights advocacy in the Philippines; non-government organizations
from the coalition of Alternative Law Groups; paralegals based in
rural areas serving marginalized sectors such as farmers and fisher
folk; and various clinical legal education programs in the
Philippines, including a mandatory program at the law school at the
University of the Philippines.
The GAJE Conference Planning Committee is finalizing dates, conference
themes, and the call for participation, which will be sent by email to
all GAJE members. Questions and suggestions can be sent to the
Conference Planning Committee through the GAJE Executive Committee:
gaje.ec@gmail.com
Previous Conferences
2006 Worldwide Conference - Argentina
2004 Worldwide Conference - Poland
2001 Worldwide Conference - South Africa
1999 Worldwide Conference - India
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