Call for submissions: International Conference on Human Rights: Youth in Asia, University of Tokyo, Komaba, Japan, March 2025. Deadline: 31 January 2025.
The 2025 International Conference on Human Rights: Youth in Asia (2025 ICHR) is co-organized by East Asia Young Scholars Association (EAYSA), Young Professionals in Foreign Policy (YPFP) Tokyo, and the Graduate Program on Human Security (HSP) and Research Center for Sustainable Peace (RCSP), the University of Tokyo. The ICHR positions Japan as a nexus for students and young scholars to express their ideas, exchange thoughts, and participate in the progressive development of the international human rights agenda. To this end, they invite academic submissions related to one or more of the following conference subthemes:
Contemporary Society
- Technology and Human Rights
- Climate Change and Humanitarian Action
- Inequalities and Education
- Gender and Conflict
- Business and Human Rights
Democracy and Autocracy
- Democratic Upheavals and Autocratization
- Immigration and the Sustainability of Multiethnic Democracies
- Refugees
- Far-Right, Far-Left, and Polarization
- Censorship and the Right to Express
They are particularly proud to encourage submissions from young scholars, studying Japanese human rights issues, and/or writing in the Japanese language! Detailed submission guidelines are now available here (English version, Japanese version). You may also review the Concept Note here: English version, Japanese version. Abstracts will be assessed in a double-blind review process on a rolling basis.
NOTE: The conference is free of charge to all presenters and participants.
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