The Administration of Samara Region, the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation, the International Movement "Educators for Peace and Understanding", the Academy for Upgrading Professional Standards and Retraining of Educators of the Russian Federation, the Samara Regional Public Human Rights Protection Centre, the Moscow School of Human Rights, the Samara Polyethnic Humanitarian Lyceum "Harmony of the World", the Samara State Pedagogical University and the Union of Lawyers of the Samara Region will carry out from June 9 till June 12, 1998 in Samara an international conference "Human rights and culture of peace on a threshold of the third millennium".

Sections of the Conference:

• Human rights in the educational process;
• Practical activity in the field of human rights protection;
• Mass media and human rights.

Topics the conference will address include:

• The rights of the child and the parent;
• Techniques of teaching courses on human rights in the education system;
• The rights of at-risk social groups of the population;
• The rights of women;
• Human rights in the penitentiary system;
• Human rights in the Armed Forces;
• The rights of minorities;
• Human rights and the culture of peace.

Outlines of papers will be accepted until June 5, 1998 (they should be no longer than 1.5 pages of typewritten text in 1.5 spaces). During the first day of the conference the texts of the reports will be accepted on a diskette in Word 6.0 for Windows format, Arial font 12 points. Otherwise, publication of the papers is not guaranteed.

We invite you to take part in a conference and to inform the Preparatory Committee before June 1, 1998 about your attendance to the address:

Samara Polyethnic Humanitarian Lyceum "Harmony of the world"
Pr.Maslennikova 40a
Samara 443056 Russia
Fax +7 (8462) 33-26-78 (please, specify: "On the conference on human rights")
Phone for information +7 (8462) 32-21-62.

Last updated: May 1, 1998

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