February 9, 2007: Florida Housing and Human Rights Training Forum—Ft. Lauderdale, Jacksonville, Miami, Orlando, Tallahassee, Tampa, and West Palm Beach, FL
This training forum for Homeless and Housing Rights activists, advocates, litigators, and service providers will take place at the offices of Holland & Knight in the various cities. Since the right to adequate housing is clearly established under human rights law, including in treaties signed and ratified by the United States, this training will focus on: international sources of the right to adequate housing and human rights to protect the homeless and issues involved in utilizing these sources domestically; successful models for using rights-based strategies in housing advocacy in discrimination, zoning, affordable housing, criminalization, and hate crimes against the homeless; breakout discussion on the use of human rights in Florida; and a discussion of next steps. CLE credit will be available. For more information, contact forum@nlchp.org or visit: http://nlchp.org/FA%5FHumanRights/FLTraining.cfm.
March 22-24, 2007: Facing Race Conference: Define Justice. Make Change.New York, NY
The Facing Race Conference will bring together key policy advocates, academics, researchers, organizers, and activists interested in exploring innovative strategies and successful models for changing public policy to produce racial equity. This conference aims to unite the racial justice movement by building bridges across issues and communities to amplify the concerns of communities of color in the intellectual, policy, and popular debates that lie ahead. For more information, visit the Applied Research Center at: www.arc.org.
April 2-4, 2007: Sixth Annual Cambio de Colores Conference, Kansas City, MO
Cambio de Colores is an annual conference which brings together researchers, practitioners, and community members to discuss issues facing Missouri and the Heartland states as a result of demographic changes. This conference brings together those working in Latina/o growth regions to address critical needs and promote networks to ensure available knowledge, resources, and capabilities can be accessible to Missouri’s communities and organizations. For more information, visit: www.cambiodecolores.org.
May 29-June 27, 2007: 20th Annual National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education, San Francisco, CA
This conference focuses on the complex task of creating and sustaining comprehensive institutional change designed to improve racial and ethnic relations on campus and to expand opportunities for educational access and success by culturally diverse, traditionally underrepresented populations. It is designed to provide a significant forum for discussion, critical dialogue, and exchange of information as institutions search for effective strategies to enhance access, social development, education, positive communication, and cross-cultural understanding in culturally diverse settings. Call for Presentations: Submission deadline is February 2, 2007. For more information: http://www.ncore.ou.edu/about.html.
