Conference: Reimagining Rights in the Americas

尊重人权是民主自治的支柱。人权框架的发展本身已逐步民主化，并成为社会运动的语言和实践的核心部分，包括种族正义、气候正义、土著人民权利和人口流动中的人的权利。重新构想美洲权利会议将通过召集学者、倡导者、受影响社区成员和国际人权机构代表，探讨在这些领域建立人权规范的前沿。此外，它还将解决美国政治和法律的制度中承认和保护人权之间存在的差距和矛盾，受影响社区和社会运动的人权要求，以及美洲人权体系中促进和保护人权的工作。重新构想美洲权利会议将与美洲人权体系的访问同时举行。美国人权委员会到加州大学洛杉矶分校校园参加其第187届会议。会议的各个组成部分旨在实现在种族、土著、移民和环境等领域推进人权框架的目标，并加强其对美国在这些问题领域面临的挑战的适用性。会议开幕时将举行一次专题讨论会，主题是“将人权带回家：弥合美国国际和国内人权框架之间的差距”。研讨会之后，美洲人权委员会的专员和特别报告员将访问洛杉矶的贫民窟，会见无住房社区及其倡导者。在会议期间，会议将从种族正义、土著人民权利和人员流动权利的角度举办一系列关于人权框架的主题演讲。会议还将在国际妇女节与委员们共同主办一个民间社会论坛，讨论性别和妇女权利与这些相同问题领域的交叉问题。最后，会议结束时将举行一次特别会议，与会者包括美洲人权委员会的专员和特别报告员、联合国人权理事会的特别报告员以及来自学术界和社会运动的主要专题专家，讨论气候危机与人权问题。研讨会的论文将发表在加州大学洛杉矶分校法学院的一份签名期刊上，其他会议记录将在人权承诺研究所的网站上提供。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。

Respect for human rights is the backbone of democratic self-government. The development of the human rights frame has itself progressively democratized and become a central part of the language and practice of social movements, including movements for racial justice, climate justice, the rights of Indigenous people, and the rights of persons in human mobility. The Reimagining Rights in the Americas Conference will explore the leading edge of human rights norm creation in these areas by convening scholars, advocates, members of impacted communities and representatives of international human rights bodies. Additionally, it will address the gaps and contradictions that exist between recognition and protection of human rights in the United States political and legal system, the human rights demands of impacted communities and social movements, and the work of promotion and protection of human rights in the Inter-American System for Human Rights.The Reimagining Rights in the Americas Conference will coincide with the visit of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to the UCLA campus for its 187th Period of Sessions. The Conference is designed with various components to achieve the goals of advancing the human rights frame in the areas of race, indigeneity, migration, and the environment, and enhancing its applicability to the challenges faced in these issue areas in the United States context. The Conference will open with a Symposium on the topic of “Bringing Human Rights Home: bridging the gap between the international and domestic frames for human rights in the United States.” Following the Symposium, Commissioners and Special Rapporteurs of the Inter-American Commission will visit Skid Row in Los Angeles to meet with the unhoused community and their advocates. During the period of sessions, the Conference will host a series of keynotes on the human rights frame from perspectives of racial justice, the rights of Indigenous peoples, and the rights of persons in human mobility. The Conference will also co-sponsor a civil society forum with the Commissioners on International Women’s Day to discuss the intersection of gender and the rights of women with these same issue areas. Finally, the Conference will end with a special convening of the Commissioners and Special Rapporteurs of the Inter-American Commission, Special Rapporteurs from the United Nations Human Rights Council, and leading subject matter experts from both academia and social movements on the topic of the Climate Crisis and Human Rights. Symposium papers will be published in one of the signature journals of UCLA Law School, and a record of the other Conference proceedings will be made available on the website of the Promise Institute for Human Rights.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.