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Conference: Political and Human Rights Dimensions of the Kurdish Questio
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Civil Rights Network
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Sep 28, 2006 18:34 PDT
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The Kurdish Association of Victoria Proudly Presents:
CONFERENCE: "POLITICAL AND HUMAN RIGHTS DIMENSIONS OF THE KURDISH
QUESTION"
Date: Tuesday 3 October, 2006.
Time: 9.00am-4.00pm.
Venue: Yasuko Hiraoka Myer Room, Level 1, Sidney Myer Asia Centre,
University of Melbourne.
Including speakers from the Kurdish Human Rights Project in London,
Human Rights Committee of England and Wales, The Greens, and a
Representative of the Democratic Society Party from Turkey.
RSVP on 9379-5679, or email kur-@optusnet.com.au.
Cost: $20 for individuals, $40 organisations.
Please see Conference Program below for further information.
CONFERENCE: POLITICAL AND HUMAN RIGHTS DIMENSIONS OF THE KURDISH
QUESTION
Tuesday 3 October 2006, 9.00am – 4.00pm
Venue: Yasuko Hiraoka Myer Room, Level 1, Sidney Myer Asia Centre,
University of Melbourne (corner of Swanston Street and Monash Road)
The Kurdish Question remains one of the most protracted unresolved
problems in the increasingly volatile Middle East. This conference will
bring together politicians, academics, human rights advocates and
lawyers who will discuss various aspects of the Kurdish question and
Australia’s position toward it, from different perspectives, and with a
particular focus on the Kurdish problem in Turkey
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
9 am : Registration
9.30am: Opening Remark by Conference Organisers
9.45: Session One: The Kurdish Question: a Human Rights Issue
1. The Kurdish Question: origins, content and historical background
Ms Aza Ozmanian (Research Assistant, University of Tasmania)
2. Keynote Speech: The Kurds in Turkey: the current human rights
situation in the region, Turkey’s international human rights
obligations, and the impact of the EU accession process.
Mr. Kerim Yildiz (Executive Director of Kurdish Human Right Project,
London)
3. Keynote Speech: The European Human Rights Court, the trial of Kurdish
Leader Abdullah Ocalan and its impact on the Kurdish Question
Mr. Mark Muller (Chairman of the Human Rights Committee of England and
Wales)
11.30 tea break
11.45: Session Two: Prospects for the Resolution of the Kurdish Question
4. Turkish state policy toward the Kurds and prospects for the
resolution of the Kurdish problem in Turkey
Ms. Aysel Tugluk (Representative of the Democratic Society Party (DTP),
Turkey)
5. International and regional political developments and their impact
upon the Kurdish Question
Dr. Hussein Tahiri (Honorary Research Associate , Monash University)
1.15pm: Lunch
2.00 pm: Session Three: Australia’s Policy toward the Kurds
6. The impact of the listing of the PKK in Australia Ms. Vicki Sentas
(Federation of Community Legal Centres)
7. Australian government policy and the Green’s position toward the
Kurds
Ms. Kerry Nettle (Senator for NSW, Australian Greens Party)
8. Problems faced by Kurdish asylum seekers in Australia: refugees and
recognition Mr. Martin Clutterbuck (Refugee Lawyer, Asylum Seeker
Resource Centre)
3.30 pm: Closing Remarks
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