NATIONAL SEMINAR ON “HUMAN RIGHTS: INDIAN AND INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE IN 21ST CENTURY” by RGNUL

Date : 7 February 2015
SUB THEMES
Session 1:  Women and Child Rights
– Immoral Trafficking of Women and Children
– Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace
– Constitutional obligations towards Women and Children
-Feminist critique of existing institutions for protection of rights of women and children
 
Session 2 : Contemporary Perspective on Contextualizing Human Rights
– Development Rights and Human Rights.
– Intercultural/Cross Cultural Legitimacy of Human Rights.
– Global Democracy, Local Democracy and the Rights Discourses.
– Cosmopolitanism and Ecological Refugees Rights.
 
Session 3  :  Living 60 years of UDHR: Conflicting Perspective of Human Rights
– Surveillance: Rights of State vs. Rights of Citizens.
– Right to Health in light of seizure of Generic Drugs.
– Human Rights and Citizenship Rights.
– Recognition of Rights of Refugees.
 
Session 4  : Human Rights and Counter Terrorism Strategies
-Legitimacy  of Drone Attacks in the light of State Sovereignty.
-Extradition and Asylum: A State Discretion
-Preventive Detention of Suspected Terrorists
-Insurgency and Human Rights
 
Session 5 – Business and Human Rights
-Land Acquisition and Rights of Indigenous People.
-Social Responsibility of MNCs towards society.
-Indian labour law vis a vis International labor standards
– Humanitarian perspective of Business: Protect, Respect & Remedy
 
GUIDELINES FOR SEMINAR PAPER
An abstract should contain 300 –350 words accompanied by a brief profile of the author indicating his email ID, contact number and official address. Paper should not be of more than 5000 words. It must be typed in Times New Roman Font Size 12 on A4 size paper with 1” margin on all sides with 1.5 line spacingusing MS Word. A Uniform Style of Citation must be strictly adhered to while submitting the abstracts and full paper. All the abstracts and full length papers shall be sent on email id:[email protected]
 
Important Dates
Last Date of Submission of Abstract            : 17th November 2014
Intimation of Acceptance of Abstract          : 25th November 2014
Full Paper Submission (Soft Copy)              : 10th January 2015
Last Date of Submission of Demand Draft :  15th January 2015
 
Link : http://rgnul.ac.in/fwbroc.pdf