International Conference: Demography and Human Rights

The Human Rights Program of the Ramat Gan Law School will hold its second international human rights conference on the subject of "Demography and Human Rights". The conference will be conducted as a researchers' workshop and will take place in Sheraton City-Tower Hotel, Ramat Gan, on January 12-14, 2007.

In the workshop we will examine the role of demographic considerations in internal public policy and in immigration policy. Can a state strive to maintain a certain ethnic balance? Is it legitimate for the state to encourage higher birth rates, and if it is, can it do so along ethnic lines? The morality of such considerations is rarely addressed by legal scholars and political theorists. The increasing use of demographic considerations in public policy debates in Israel, Europe and other parts of the world makes the discussion of the morality of the demographic discourse and its implications for human rights (especially ethnic minorities and women) highly important.

The workshop is closed for the public.
Researchers who are interested in participating please contact the workshop organizers: Gila Stopler (gstopler@rg-law.ac.il) and Moshe Cohen-Eliya (mcohen@rg-law.ac.il).