Program 2019

Global Minority Rights Summer School 2019

Labour, Land and Development from a Minority Perspective

Budapest, Hungary, July 7—13, 2019

 

Sunday, July 7 Introduction
15:00-18:30 Introductions
Location: Educational Centre, Room O-114-115
19:00-21:00 Welcome Dinner
Location: Educational Centre, Room O-114-115

Monday, July 8 Labour, Land, and Development from a Minority Perspective
Location: Educational Centre, Room 214-215
08:00-09:00 Breakfast
Location: Educational Centre, Room 114-115
09:00-09:30 Welcome Speeches
Anna-Mária Bíró, Tom Lantos InstituteBalázs Vizi, National University of Public ServiceJoshua Castellino, Minority Rights GroupLocation: Educational Centre, Room 214-215
09:30-11:00 Labour, Land and Development from a Minority Perspective: An Introduction
Joshua Castellino, Minority Rights GroupLocation: Educational Centre, Room 214-215
11:00-11:30 BreakEducational Centre, Room 114-115
11:30-13:00 Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues: Mandate and Work
Fernand de Varennes, United Nations Special Rapporteur on minority issuesLocation: Educational Centre, Room 214-215
13:00-14:00 Lunch breakEducational Centre, Room 114-115 
14:00-15:30 Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues: Questions and Answers
Fernand de Varennes, United Nations Special Rapporteur on minority issuesLocation: Educational Centre, Room 214-215
15:30-16:00 BreakEducational Centre, Room 114-115
16:00-17:00 Minority Forum Info and Global Minority Rights Newsletter
Anna-Mária Bíró, Tom Lantos InstituteMarcus Oda, Tom Lantos InstituteLocation: Educational Centre, Room 214-215
18:30 DinnerEducational Centre, Room 114-115

Tuesday, July 9 Europe
Location: Educational Centre, Room 214-215
08:00-09:00 Breakfast
Location: Educational Centre, Room 114-115
09:30-11:00 The Economics of Minority Rights
Bengt-Arne Wickström, Andrássy-Universität Budapest (retired professor, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)Location: Educational Centre, Room 214-215
11:00-11:30 BreakEducational Centre, Room 114-115
11:30-13:00 Roma: Labour Market, Social Inclusion, and Discrimination
Carmen Tanasie & Jelena Jovanovic, ERGO Network
Mapping the measures of EU-countries to promote Roma women’s employment
and entrepreneurship: lessons learnt from the Roma Civil Monitor project
on including gender aspects into policy analysis  
Lídia Balogh, Hungarian Academy of Sciences Centre for Social Sciences, Institute for Legal StudiesLocation: Educational Centre, Room 214-215
13:00-14:00 Lunch breakEducational Centre, Room 114-115 
14:00-15:30 New Minorities: Migrants
Roberta Medda-Windischer, Eurac ResearchLocation: Educational Centre, Room 214-215
15:30-16:00 BreakEducational Centre, Room 114-115
16:00-18:00 Participant Presentations and Moderated DiscussionModerator: Bengt-Arne Wickström
Critical perspectives on kin-state protection of minorities in Eastern Europe, Csenge Campianu
Evolution of Electoral Preferences of the Polish Minority in Lithuania:
Orbanization of Political Agendas, Crisis of Leadership or the Need for Internal Revolution?, Kiryl Kascian
Roma in Russia, Ekaterina Kosiuk
“Good Personhood” in Kosovo. A Serbian Perspective from Below, Francesco Trupia
Global investment priorities and land and cultural
rights of Sami indigenous people at cross-roads in the economic
development of the Arctic Sea region, Johanna PuhakkaLocation: Educational Centre, Room 214-215
18:30 DinnerEducational Centre, Room 114-115

Wednesday, July 10 Asia
Location: Educational Centre, Room 214-215
08:00-09:00 Breakfast
Location: Educational Centre, Room 114-115
09:30-11:00 Case Study: Palestinians
Hassan Jabareen, Adalah—The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in IsraelLocation: Educational Centre, Room 214-215
11:00-11:30 BreakEducational Centre, Room 114-115
11:30 -13:00 Case Study: Dalits
Manjula Pradeep, WAYVE FoundationLocation: Educational Centre, Room 214-215
13:00-14:00 Lunch breakEducational Centre, Room 114-115
14:00-15:30 Case Studies: Uyghurs
Dolkun Isa, World Uyghur CongressLocation: Educational Centre, Room 214-215
15:30-16:00 BreakEducational Centre, Room 114-115
16:00-18:00 Participant Presentations and Moderated DiscussionModerator: Manjula Pradeep
Violations of the Rights of Minorities in Central Asia, Dilshat Turdiev
Marginalized Youth in India, Syed Hasan Raihan
Minorities in Iraq: Living at the Crossroads and Politicization of Life Aspects, Hawzhen Ahmed
Presentation on Iraq, Ridha Alazawi
Ethnic Diversity in Nepal, KC Poshta Bahadur
East Turkestan, Ferit OguzturkLocation: Educational Centre, Room 214-215
18:30 DinnerEducational Centre, Room 114-115

Thursday, July 11 Americas
Location: Educational Centre, Room 214-215
08:00-09:00 Breakfast
Location: Educational Centre, Room 114-115
09:30-11:00 Indigenous Peoples and People of African Descent in the Americas: Comparative Introduction
Alejandro Fuentes, Raoul Wallenberg InstituteLocation: Educational Centre, Room 214-215
11:00-11:30 BreakEducational Centre, Room 114-115
11:30 -13:00 Traditional Lands and Natural Resources: Jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court
Alejandro Fuentes, Raoul Wallenberg InstituteLocation: Educational Centre, Room 214-215
13:00-14:00 Lunch breakEducational Centre, Room 114-115 
14:00-15:30 The Right of Indigenous Peoples to Self-Determined Sustainable Development
Cathal Doyle, Middlesex University LondonLocation: Educational Centre, Room 214-215
15:30-16:00 BreakEducational Centre, Room 114-115
16:00-18:00 Participant Presentations and Moderated DiscussionModerators: Alejandro Fuentes and Cathal Doyle
Law and the Literary: A Narrative Approach, Keira Anderson
Indigenous Tribes in Brazil, Alex Forster, Destiny Kebirungi, and Erin Watkinson
Indigenous People and the Right to Food in Brazil, Gabriela Santos MartelLocation: Educational Centre, Room 214-215
18:30 DinnerEducational Centre, Room 114-115 

Friday, July 12 Africa
Location: Educational Centre, Room 214-215
08:00- 09:00 Breakfast
Location: Educational Centre, Room 114-115
09:30-11:00 Case Study: Ogieks
Daniel Kobei, Ogiek Peoples’ Development ProgramLocation: Educational Centre, Room 214-215
11:00-11:30 Break
11:30-13:00 Case Study: Mauritania and Slavery
Jennifer Castello, Minority Rights GroupLocation: Educational Centre, Room 214-215
13:00-14:00 Lunch breakEducational Centre, Room 114-115 
14:00-16:00 Participant Presentations and Moderated DiscussionModerator: Daniel Kobei
Environmental Justice for Minority Ethnic Populations: An Ecofeminist Analysis, Asmae Ourkiya
Absence of boundary delimitation and its impact on Economic and social rights:
case of Noni tribe in the North West Region of Cameroon, Robert Kosho Ndiyun
Examining Minority Rights Protection under the Ethiopian Federal System, Marew Salemot
Between Land, Labour and a Lost Language:
The Slipperiness of Indigenous Rights for South Africa’s Karretjiemense, Luan StaphorstLocation: Educational Centre, Room 214-215
16:00-16:30 Written Evaluation
16:30-17:30 Certificates
19:00 Gala Dinner
Location: VakVarjú Étterem, Paulay Ede utca 7

Saturday, July 13 Visit to the Hungarian Parliament
08:00-09:00 Breakfast
Location: Educational Centre, Main Hall
10:00-12:00 Visit to the Hungarian Parliament
18:30 DinnerLocation: Educational Centre, Main Hall

Sunday, July 14   
08:00-09:00 Breakfast
Location: Educational Centre, Main Hall

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