Call for Applications are invited by International Forum for Young Leaders. This Global Conference on Democracy, Human Rights and the Fragility of Freedom will be organized at McGill University in Montreal, Canada from 21st March to 23rd March, 2013.
This third conference will offer golden networking opportunity for like-minded young leaders throughout the world allowing them to involve with each other and work with some of the Conference’s eminent speakers.
Young Leaders will have the opportunity to develop practical skills in human rights advocacy, including in the use of social media and community-building to effect change. This will be the third Echenberg Family Conference on Human Rights. Young Leaders Forum become McGill Echenberg Human Rights Fellows and remains active in a vibrant community of human rights professionals around the world.
The Young Leaders will address significant issues around democratic citizenship, the protection of fundamental rights and freedoms, including the violent repression of democracy and economic and social rights, as well as the role of transnationalism, globalization and foreign policy in democracy.
The main goal of the International Forum for Young Leaders is to share practical tools and experiences while engaging with these Conference themes. We now invite applications from young professionals and scholars who can speak to the promotion of democratic issues and human rights, both in their own countries and in the international arena.
Deadline: April 13, 2012
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