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Beginning April 17, 2006 Special IPFW-Kosovo workshop on the implementation of human rights in Kosovo. The workshop has been organized by request of the Prime Minister of the provisional government of Kosovo. April 17, 2006 Monique Ilboudo, Minister for the Promotion of Human Rights in the government of Burkina Faso (west Africa) will be addressing the IPFW Philosophy Club at noon in Kettler 246 along with two human rights researchers working under the provisional government of Kosovo. April 20-22, 2006 The IPFW Institute for Human Rights to hold their 2nd annual conference on the United Nations, Human Rights, and Moral Education. Keynote and international speakers are scheduled to come from Canada, Kosovo, and Burkina Faso in West Africa, as well as the United States. July 2006, intensive credit program on International Human Rights Law and Human Rights Ethics in collaboration with the René Cassin International Institute of Human Rights on the Campus of the University of Strasbourg, France. The director of the IPFW Institute for Human Rights will be giving four lectures. Mission The Institute endeavors to underscore the convergence between the American national purpose and respect for individual rights. Its projects will develop local applications of universal principles, and will promote global awareness of human rights issues. The language of human rights has significant moral content, and is not mere rhetoric. The Institute traces American patriotism back to universal human rights norms. The United States is coming to the realization that “nation-building”, whether domestically or internationally, will be on its agenda for decades to come. The only reasonable standard for such activity is human-rights related. The basic right, freedom of speech, invites inquiry into the possible support of legal access rights, of political rights, of public service and public works rights, and of welfare rights. Professor Clark Butler Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne Campus Director of the IPFW Institute for Human Rights 2101 E. Coliseum Blvd. Neff Hall 130J Fort Wayne, Indiana 46805-1499 Telephone: 260-481-6364 Email: humanrights@ipfw.edu  |