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    Monday, January 28, 2008

    5th WORLDWIDE CONFERENCE OF THE GLOBAL ALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE EDUCATION

    Global Alliance for Justice Education (GAJE)

    5th WORLDWIDE CONFERENCE OF THE GLOBAL ALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE EDUCATION

    December 2008 Philippine Islands

    http://www.gaje.org/Conf08-home.htm

    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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