Social Justice and Human Rights is an interdisciplinary, interreligious and cross-sectoral conference presented
by the ICS Centre for Philosophy, Religion and Social Ethics in partnership with Emmanuel College.
by the ICS Centre for Philosophy, Religion and Social Ethics in partnership with Emmanuel College.
KEYNOTE LECTURES
What Is Justice and Why Does It Matter?Dr. Nicholas Wolterstorff V W Noah Porter Professor of Philosophical Theology Emeritus, Yale University 
Linking Fates Together: New Political Imaginaries of Justice and Democratic RightsDr. Melissa Williams V W Professor of Political Theory and former Director of the Centre for Ethics at the University of Toronto PLENARY PANEL
Diverse Religious Perspectives on Justice
The Very Rev. Lois Wilson
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CCOC, former moderator of the United Church of Canada and spokesperson for human rights and interfaith issues 
Dr. Abdulaziz Sachedina
Frances Myers Ball Professor of Religious Studies at University of Virginia and expert in Islamic law and theology 
Rabbi Roy Tanenbaum
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President of the Canadian Yeshiva and Rabbinical School and author of Prisoner 88: The Man In Stripes PANELS / WORKSHOPS
Concurrent sessions will take place on both days of the conference. The topics currently planned are:
• Tensions when rights-claims conflict • Tensions in the adjudication of justice • Status of economic, social and civil rights • Rights of Children – protection vs. self-determination • Rights of Refugees and Immigrants • Rights of People with Disabilities • Sustenance Rights: housing, food, health care • Environmental Rights: justice in creation-care • Aboriginal rights - group and individual rights • Women's rights PUBLIC LECTURE
Must Love and Justice Be Forever at Odds? Dr. Nicholas Wolterstorff Noah Porter Professor of Philosophical Theology Emeritus at Yale University and author of Justice: Rights and Wrongs. Open to the general public with a separate fee. Details >> | ORGANIZERS DISCUSS THE CONFERENCE
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