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  1. Call for Papers: Special Issue, Philosophies: “The Philosophy of Human Rights Obligations and Omissions”

    …the field of human rights, academically as well as in society, it is crucial that the human rights discourse focuses more on known yet highly volatile issues such as these. The aim of this Special Issue is to contribute to a substantive discussion on human rights obligations and omissions by, among other things, formulating a concrete and functional critique of the understandings, assumptions and mechanisms for human rights protection and impleme…

  2. Conference- Absolute Poverty in Europe

    …lute poverty in Europe. Papers should address the specific situations and challenges of groups endangered by absolute poverty such as undocumented refugees, migrant beggars, homeless people, street children or discuss evils related to severe poverty (malnutrition, physical and mental illness, stigma, isolation, etc.). We encourage papers from scholars with backgrounds in the humanities or the social sciences, as well as from practitioners. Further…

  3. Open Access Book: ‘Learning, Marginalization, and Improving the Quality of Education in Low-income Countries’

    …gue persuasively that learning equity is a moral imperative, but also one that will have educational, economic and social impacts. They further outline how achieving SDG4 will take renewed and persistent effort by stakeholders to use better measurement tools to promote learning achievement among poor and marginalized children. This volume builds on the second international conference on Learning at the Bottom of the Pyramid (LBOP2). It will be an…

  4. OPEN ACCESS BOOK: Low-Income Students, Human Development and Higher Education in South Africa: Opportunities, obstacles and outcomes

    …s an original contribution to capabilitarian scholarship: conceptually in theorising a South-based multi-dimensional student well-being higher education matrix and a rich reconceptualisation of learning outcomes, as well as empirically by conducting rigorous, longitudinal in-depth mixed-methods research on students’ lives and experiences in higher education in South Africa. The audience for the book includes higher education researchers, internati…

  5. Call for Papers: Workshop on Gender and Poverty

    …e fee. Coffee breaks and two lunches will be covered by the CEPR. Due to additional external funding the CEPR can now offer to pay for two nights of accommodation in Salzburg. Unfortunately we cannot offer any subsidy for travel costs. The invited speaker for this workshop is Serene J. Khader (Brooklyn College & CUNY Graduate Center). We invite scholars at all career stages to submit papers related to the workshop topic of “Gender and Poverty”. Po…

  6. Call for Papers: CAPABILITIES AT WORK: EMPIRICAL APPLICATIONS OF THE CAPABILITIES APPROACH FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ENDEAVOURS

    …3, 3012 Bern, Switzerland, and Institute of Geography, University of Bern, Hallerstrasse 12, 3012 Bern, Switzerland Carla Gomes,Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, Av. Professor Aníbal de Bettencourt 9, 1600-189 Lisboa, Portugal Flurina Schneider, Centre for Development and Environment, University of Bern, Mittelstrasse 43, 3012 Bern, Switzerland Beginning with the seminal work of Amartya Sen throughout the 1980s (Sen 1979; 1992),…

  7. SEMINARIO SOBRE DESARROLLO HUMANO EN REGIONES TRANSFRONTERIZAS EDICION 2015

    …esados en el campo del desarrollo humano para que compartan experiencias y dialoguen con respecto a las posibles formas de enfocar el estudio y la transformación de los factores que influyen en las oportunidades, capacidades, habilidades y la calidad de vida de las poblaciones transfronterizas, especialmente la región Sonora-Arizona. En esta edición, el seminario examinará el desarrollo humano desde la perspectiva de la vulnerabilidad y resilienci…

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