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From: Andrew Jameson <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2001 3:28 PM
Subject: Fw: Human Rights Conference (Ekaterinburg, April 2001)


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> From: Serguei Alex. Oushakine <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: CFP:  Human Rights Conference (Ekaterinburg,  April 2001)
> Date: 07 January 2001 17:24
>
> From: Andreas Umland <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 01:45:38 -0800 (PST)
>
>
>                The Friedrich Naumann Foundation,The Department of
> International
> Relations of Ural State University, and The Sverdlovsk Regional Fond for
the
> Advancement of International Relations Studies,  invite papers for the
> scientific-practical conference:
>
>        "The Implementation of the European Convention on Human Rights in
> Russia: Legal Norms, Judicial Actions, and Political Practice" to be held
at
> the Ural State University of Yekaterinburg in early April 2001.
>
> This two-day meeting will bring together representatives of Russian and
> Western
> non-governmental organizations, lawyers, researchers, academics, and
others
> interested or involved in the realization, study, and monitoring, of the
> implementation of the standards of the European Convention on Human Rights
> (ECHR) in post-Soviet Russia. Apart from establishing the current extent
of
> the
> legal and practical implementation of the ECHR, the domestic norms, and
> behavior of authorities and social actors in Russia will be also analyzed
> from
> a comparative and historical perspective. Although the main focus will be
on
> scholarly and participant observations about the current status of the
ECHR
> in
> Russia, paper-subjects may also include reports about experiences with the
> implementation of the ECHR in other countries, or the development of
> monistic
> approaches to the relationship between domestic and international law in
> Russia
> before her entry into the Council of Europe in 1996. Prospective
> participants
> are, in particular, asked to consider what practical conclusions, and what
> recommendations to Russian authorities, and civil society activists, your
> analysis may lead to. Western and Russian representatives of
> non-governmental
> organizations are encouraged to describe - and, if appropriate, to
> document -
> in detail (a) your experiences with particular violations or applications
of
> the norms of the ECHR, and (b) any examples, you may know of, for the
> successful (or, for that matter, unsuccessful) defense of human rights
with
> explicit reference to the ECHR.
>
>         Abstracts should be submitted to the below address until 15
February
> 2001 (late submissions will only in exceptional circumstances be
> considered).
> The conference languages are Russian and English. Travel by train inside
> Russia
> (2nd class, coupe), and accommodation in a student hostel (for three
nights)
> will be covered by a grant from the Russia bureau of the Friedrich Naumann
> Foundation. Any other or further expenditures will have to be covered by
the
> participant her- or himself, or other sponsors. The organizers will
support
> prospective non-Russian participants in obtaining funding and visas,
making
> local hotel reservations, and orienting themselves in Yekaterinburg.
> Presentations should be no more than 15 minutes long. Substantive papers
> submitted in appropriate form will be published in a conference
> volume/policy
> handbook under the imprint of Ural University Press Yekaterinburg. Further
> information and application forms may be obtained from: RUSSIA, 620083
> Ekaterinburg, pr. Lenina, 51, Uralskii gosudarstvennyi universitet
Otdelenie
> mezhdunarodnykh otnoshenii, k. 464, tel. +7-3432-557543 Andreas Umland,
> e-mail:
> [log in to unmask] (subject heading: ECHR)
>