281 Risk, Human Rights and Global Justice

Thursday, August 2, 2012: 10:45 AM-12:15 PM
OB 305 (Faculty of Economics)

TG03 Human Rights and Global Justice (host committee)
TG04 Sociology of Risk and Uncertainty

Language:
Session Organizers:
Edward SIEH, Lasell College, USA and Jens O. ZINN, University of Melbourne, Australia
Chair:
Edward SIEH, Lasell College, USA
Human rights and the idea of risk
Lucia Maria BRITO DE OLIVEIRA, University of Brasilia, Brazil

The world social forum and the struggle for new political paradigms
Bruno MÜLLER, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Human rights and media: An authoritative historical construction
Thuanny RIBEIRO, lucia de fatima clemente ribeiro, Brazil; Niedja LIMA, Bernadete lima, Brazil

Constitutional courts and the instrumentalization of legitimacy
Henrique RANGEL, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro / Faculdade Nacional de Direito, Brazil; Carlos BOLONHA, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro / Faculdade Nacional de Direito, Brazil; Maíra ALMEIDA, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro / Programa de Pós-Graduação em Direito, Brazil

The perception of the discourse of the (human) rights of the Turkish Left
Onder GUNES, Middle East Technical University, Turkey