HRI training seminar Human rights talk between the global and the local Friday 13 June 2014 Law and Development Research Group, Law Faculty, University of Antwerp IAP P7/27 “The Global Challenge of Human Rights Integration: Towards a Users’ Perspective” Programme 13h30 – 13h40: Introduction Prof. Koen De Feyter, Law and Development Research Group, University of Antwerp 13h40 – 14h10: On the creation of new human rights by transnational agrarian movements Dr. Priscilla Claeys, Post-doctoral Researcher (Fernand Braudel – IFER Fellowship); Collège d'études mondiales (CEM), Paris/University of Louvain (UCL) 14h10 – 14h30: The use of human rights talk in the struggle for access to water in New Delhi: preliminary results from the field Dr. Maheshwar Singh, National Law University Delhi 14h30 – 14h50: A framework for a rights-based analysis of access to water in New Delhi Nawneet Vibhaw, Jindal Global Law School and University of Antwerp 14h50 – 15h10: Questions and debate 15h10 – 15h40: Break 15h40 – 16h00: A critical analysis of UNICEF’s rights-based approach in the DRC Dr. Tine Destrooper, University of Antwerp 16h00 – 16h20: The DRC-UNICEF's sanitised villages project in Bas-Congo: the human rights discourse from below Pascal Sundi, Université Kongo and University of Antwerp 16h20 – 16h50: Questions and debate 16h50 – 17h00: Concluding reflections Prof. Koen De Feyter, Law and Development Research Group, University of Antwerp Practical information Location: Room E.207, City Campus, University of Antwerp, Grote Kauwenberg 2, 2000 Antwerp Registration: Participation is free, but registration is required before 4 June 2014 through the online registration form. Contact: Ellen Desmet, Project manager IAP ‘Human Rights Integration’ Faculty of Law, University of Antwerp, Venusstraat 23, 2000 Antwerp Tel. +32 3 265 53 48 [email protected] Short CVs Priscilla Claeys is a Post-Doctoral Researcher in Sociology, with specialization in the fields of sociology of human rights, sociology of social movements and rural sociology. Her research interests include food sovereignty, right to food, transnational peasant movements, trade and globalization in food and agriculture, human rights and alternative economies. She completed her PhD at the University of Louvain and worked from 2008-2014 as an Advisor to the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food. She previously worked for a number of human rights, labour rights and development organizations, in France, Canada, Mexico and Belgium. Priscilla Claeys has published articles in international journals such as Sociology and Globalizations and is the author of two books on the food system, the food sovereignty movement and human rights. - Claeys, Priscilla (2012). The Creation of New Rights by the Food Sovereignty Movement: The Challenge of Institutionalizing Subversion. Sociology, 46, 844-860. - Lambek, Nadia, & Claeys, Priscilla (Eds.) (2014). Rethinking Food Systems. Structural Challenges, New Strategies, and the Law. Springer. - Claeys, Priscilla. (in press). Human Rights and the Food Sovereignty Movement. Reclaiming Control. Earthscan Routledge. Maheshwar Singh is an Associate Professor of political and legal theory at National Law University, Delhi. He teaches political and legal theory both at undergraduate and post-graduate level. Dr. Singh teaches approaches to justice, development-induced displacement and human rights issues for tribal people in India, refugee and humanitarian law as well as disability and law at the post-graduate level. His research areas include law and tribes in India, politics of human rights and disability and human rights. Dr. Singh also heads the Centre for Disability and Law at National Law University, Delhi. Nawneet Vibhaw is an Assistant Professor and Assistant Dean at the Jindal Global Law School, NCR Delhi. He received his B.A., LL.B. (Hons.) degree from NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad. He is pursuing his Ph.D. under a joint Ph.D. program between NLU Delhi and University of Antwerp, with his area of focus being “Right to Water for the urban poor in NCR Delhi”. Pascal Sundi Mbambi is a PhD candidate at the Université Kongo & University of Antwerp; his research focuses on the DRC-UNICEF’s sanitised villages project in the Bas-Congo Province: the view from the rural poor. The aim of the research is to explore the level of human rights awareness of the communities benefiting from the project, their perceptions of human rights in comparison with that of UNICEF, as well as to identify actions taken by the communities to secure better human rights services from the Congolese state and the donor community. Tine Destrooper is a post-doctoral researcher in the Law and Development Research Group at the Law Faculty, where she conducts an analysis of UNICEF’s human rights based approach in the DRC. She is also affiliated with the Department of Political Science (ACIM) as a guest professor in the field of multilevel governance and political institutions. Her main research interests include gender, social mobilization, the localization of human rights, and the role of international organizations regarding these issues.