September, 26th-30th , 2016. UNOESC, Chapecó/SC, Brazil

INTERNATIONAL NETWORK OF HUMAN RIGHTS Universidade do Oeste de Santa Catarina (Brazil), Università di Roma - La Sapienza (Italia), Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University - UKSW (Poland), Charles University (Czech Republic), Universidad de Burgos (Spain), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain), Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua (Mexico), Universidad de Talca (Chile) Brazilian Research Network on Fundamental Rights - RBDF (PUC/RS, UNIBRASIL/PR, UNOESC, UNIFIEO/SP, USP-Ribeirão Preto/SP, UNISC/RS, FDV/ES, UNIFOR/CE)

The INTERNATIONAL NETWORK OF HUMAN RIGHTS idea is dream come true: joining Universities and Scholars around the world with strong researches on human rights and human dignity to develop international cooperation in order to find solutions to serious human rights violations. In this year of 2016 we take the first step to make it come true. On September 26-30, the Universidade do Oeste de Santa Catarina (Brazil) will host, in Brazil, Scholars from international and Brazilian Universities to

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create the INTERNATIONAL NETWORK OF HUMAN RIGHTS and debate solutions for serious human rights violations. You can also be part of it. Come and join us. Bring your ideas, your researches, and present them through a paper. We will debate and find solutions together! We are looking forward to hosting Professors and Students from international and Brazilian Universities. To be part of it, all you have to do is subscribe here and follow the instructions.

CALL FOR PAPERS The INTERNATIONAL NETWORK OF HUMAN RIGHTS is glad to announce its call for papers for its forthcoming 2016 UNOESC INTERNATIONAL LEGAL SEMINAR - Human Dignity and Human Rights Violations. Papers (written in English, only) for the 2016 meeting can be submitted until August 15th, and the result of the peer review will be published on August 31st. Papers must be original, reveal scientific importance, focus on one of the Working Groups topics, and their main results and conclusions must not have been published or submitted elsewhere before; their conclusion must be interesting to interdisciplinary readership and observe all recommended formal aspects. However, versions of papers originally released in other languages (Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, Czech, Polish, etc.) shall be accepted.

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SUBMITTING A PAPER: 1) Register at SPRING 2006 UNOESC Website: [CLICK HERE] 2) Follow formal aspects and criteria for publishing at: [CLICK HERE]

DISCUSSION VIA SKYPE This Seminar admits submissions from across the world. Whether a foreign author wish to discuss his/her paper via Skype, all he/she have to do is formally require this opportunity through the following email: [email protected] Nevertheless, this option is only available to those authors whose manuscripts were formally accepted by the Scientific Commission.

THEMES FOR DISCUSSION – WORKSHOPS Here you find an indicative and non exhaustive list of themes which are strongly recommended by the Scientific Comission of the Seminar. All of them are recognized as circumstances of serious violations of human rights. Therefore, we encourage you to address one of these themes for discussions.

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WORKING GROUP 01 - CIVIL AND POLITICAL HUMAN RIGHTS Arbitrary arrest and arbitrary detention. Violations of the right to self-determination. Restrictions on movement. Enforced disappearance. Excessive use of force by police forces. Forced and large-scaled population displacement. Rape and other sorts of sexual violence. Torture and other cruel, inhuman, or degrading mistreatment. Violations of the right to life, including murder and massacre, and extrajudicial and summary executions. Excessive use of force by police or other security forces, (e.g. against demonstrators). Violations of the right to freedom of expression and free association. Discrimination. Gender-based violence. Child abuse: sexual and other forms of violence. Violations of the right to property (e.g. home and infrastructure destruction). Forced eviction.

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WORKING GROUP 02 - VIOLATIONS IN CONTEXT OF WAR Deliberate targeting of civilian. Use of civilians as ‘human shields’ in armed conflict. Objects used in situations of armed conflict. Indiscriminate attacks in armed conflict. Child recruitment to the armed forces or armed groups. Attacks on hospitals and health facilities and, more generally, failure to respect the right to health. Pillaging in armed conflict. Attacks on schools and education facilities and, more generally, failure to respect the right to education (including prolonged closure of schools). Blockades: preventing people and supplies from coming in or leaving (a port or country) especially during war.

WORKING GROUP 03 - SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC HUMAN RIGHTS States failure to address poverty and inadequate living standards. Slavery and forced labor. States failure to inquire into alleged violations of human rights. States failure to provide detention conditions according to international norms. Obstruction of access to humanitarian aid. Large-scale property destruction (buildings and infrastructure demolition) which affects the human right to adequate housing.

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2016 UNOESC INTERNATIONAL LEGAL SEMINAR ACADEMIC CALENDAR Sep, 26 - Monday Professors and students from INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITIES will arrive in Brazil (Chapecó/SC) 20h00min - Welcome Cocktail

Sep, 27 - Tuesday Short Course for professors and students: 09h - Part I - Fundamental Human Rights and Latin America Constitutional Systems 12h Lunch 14h - Part II - Fundamental Human Rights and Latin America Constitutional Systems 16h - Coffee Break 16h30 - Part III - Fundamental Human Rights and Latin America Constitutional Systems 18h30 - End of Short Course 20h30 - Special Dinner

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Sep, 28 - Wednesday Professors' Seminars 08h30 - WORKING GROUP 01 - CIVIL AND POLITICAL HUMAN RIGHTS Scholars will present and debate their researches 12h - Lunch 14h - 18h WORKING GROUP 01 - CIVIL AND POLITICAL HUMAN RIGHTS Professors will present and debate their researches. In addition, international professors who could not come to Brazil will present their articles through videoconference. 20h30 – Dinner

Sep, 29 - Thursday Professors' Seminars 08h30 - WORKING GROUP 02 - VIOLATIONS IN CONTEXT OF WAR Professors will present and debate their researches. In addition, international professors who could not come to Brazil will present their articles through videoconference. 12h - Lunch

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14h - WORKING GROUP 03 - SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC HUMAN RIGHTS Professors will present and debate their researches. In addition, international professors who could not come to Brazil will present their articles through videoconference. 20h30 - Special Dinner - Launching the international collective book Human Dignity and Human Rights violations: Challenges and Solutions This International Book will join all papers presented in 2016 UNOESC INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR

Sep, 30 - Friday Student's Seminars Working Groups coordinated by Professors 08h30 - 18h WORKING GROUP 01 - CIVIL AND POLITICAL HUMAN RIGHTS WORKING GROUP 02 - VIOLATIONS IN CONTEXT OF WAR WORKING GROUP 03 - SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC HUMAN RIGHTS Students from Brazil and other countries will present their researches and it will be publish in an e-book. In addition, international students and

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professors who could not come to Brazil will present their articles through videoconference (Skype). 20h30 - Special Dinner and Dance

Oct, 1 - Saturday Cultural meeting Visiting Waterfalls and Tropical forest in Chapecó

Oct, 2 - Sunday Day off

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