See Conference registration information below

We are pleased to announce the Fourth CUSHRID Net Meeting and Conference. The theme of the Conference will be "Sharing the Tools: Technologies for Human Rights." It will be held from May 1 - 3, 1998, at the new AAAS headquarters in Washington, DC.

Preliminary Conference Program

Friday, 1 May

Pre-conference Training Sessions

• Issues in Setting-up a Human Rights documentation Centre Presented by: Agnethe Olesen, Danish Center for Human Rights
• Development of an Effective Organizational Website Presented by: Roberto Quezada, AIUSA

Keynote speakers: Leo Valladares Lanza, National Human Rights Commissioner of Honduras and Dr. Herbert F. Spirer, Professor Emeritus, The University of Connecticut.

Reception

Saturday, 2 May

Workshop Sessions

• Using Search Engines Effectively to Obtain Human Rights Information. Speakers: Lucie Lamoureux, ICHRDD, Patricia Sutherland
• Low Tech Internet Communications - E-Mail and Listservs. Speaker: Jagdish Parikh, HRW, Debra Guzman, HURINet

• Privacy Issues and Electronic Freedom
• Developing an Electronic Thesaurus for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Workshops

• Data Security and Encryption. Speaker: Patrick Ball, AAAS
• Applying New Technologies to Human Rights Work. Speaker: Stephen Hansen, AAAS

• Using Statistics to Present Human Rights Information

Meet your colleagues for informational discussions, demonstrate your website, visit information tables and join in discussion sessions, and preview new products and information sources for human rights documentation.

Reception

Sunday, 3 May

CUSHRID Net Annual General Meeting

Discussion Groups

• Human Rights Librarians and Documentalists
• Website Developers
• Electronic Activism
• Human Rights in Universities
• Women's Human Rights

Conference Registration Information

Location:

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
1200 New York Ave, NW
Washington, DC, USA

Dates:

Training sessions begin at 9:30 AM, Friday, 1 May. The opening plenary session will be at 5:00 PM that day. Workshops will be scheduled throughout the day, Saturday, 2 May. The Demo Fair will be held that afternoon. The Conference will close on Sunday 3 May at 4:00 PM.

Fees:

Pre-Conference training session are $50 for non-members, free for members. Registration (includes Fri. and Sat. receptions, and Sat. lunch). CUSHRID Net Members: $70, non-members: $150.

Hotel Information:

There are many hotels near the AAAS building and along the easy-to-use Metro system. For more information on hotel accommodations, contact AAAS at the address above, or check the CUSHRID Net WWW site for hotels, locations, and any discounted rates.

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Last updated: January 13, 1998

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