JUSTICE TODAY: HUMAN RIGHTS SINCE EMANCIPATION

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In commemoration of 180 years since Emancipation, Centre for Justice presents a conference entitled
JUSTICE TODAY: HUMAN RIGHTS SINCE EMANCIPATION
Centre for Justice is organizing this conference as part of its mandate to promote education in the areas of
human rights, civil liberties and administration of justice and to foster civic engagement.
To that end, members of the public are invited to submit essays to Centre for Justice and to
participate in the conference.
The conference will be held on 10 July 2014, in Hamilton, Bermuda.

Essay submission
Successful entrants will be invited to take part in the conference with a panel of local and overseas experts
in the field of human rights and justice. They will be asked to make short presentations on their essays
and to engage in follow-up discussions with the panelists and with audience participants.
Following the conference, Centre for Justice will publish a journal of all successful essays.

Conference and Essay Topics
The title of the conference is:
JUSTICE TODAY: HUMAN RIGHTS SINCE EMANCIPATION
Entrants are invited to submit an essay in respect of one or more of the related themes, and within each
theme, we list below suggested topical areas of interest that presenters might wish to touch upon in their
papers. Essays may deal with one topic exclusively and in depth or with multiple topics as part of a
comparative exercise, provided they address the question posed.

(1) How did we get here?
Our first session will be focused on providing a historical survey of legal, socio-political and
economic developments in the arena of justice and human rights since the Emancipation era.


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(2) How equal are we?
The wording of this and our next sub-theme is left deliberately wide so as to provide entrants with as
much creative scope to come up with essays as appropriate. As to question of equality, we would hope to
address questions of discrimination and of equality more broadly defined.
Notwithstanding the scope of the sub-theme, we would expect the papers and session to cover, inter alia,
the following:
Race
Womens issues
Sexual orientation
Gender identity and expression
Disability
Age
Non-Bermudians / Long-Term
Residents
Migrant workers
Poverty & Socio-economic rights
Childrens rights
Any other suggested topic
(3) How just are we?
This sub-theme is arguably broader in scope than the previous. However, we expect to focus on justice
within our justice system. In particular, we hope to address the following:
Punishment vs rehabilitation
Victims Rights
Restorative Justice
Drugs as health vs criminal issue
Drug convictions and the stop list
Diversion from criminal justice system
Youth Justice System
Civil debts and imprisonment
Legal aid & access to justice
Any other suggested topic

Submission requirements
All residents of Bermuda, including returning students, are eligible to make a submission. Centre
for Justice reserves the right to verify the eligibility status of all successful entrants.
Essays submitted should aim to be no longer than 3,000 5,000 words, inclusive of all
footnotes and references, and should conform to the Chicago Manual of Style and the Oxford
Standard for Citation of Legal Authorities (free versions of which can be found online at
http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/ and http://www.law.ox.ac.uk/publications/oscola.php
respectively). However, Centre for Justice will not be overly prescriptive with this word range.
Entrants are permitted and encouraged to submit multiple essays.
Permission must be obtained for the reproduction of illustrations and quotations from copyrighted
material.


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It is a condition of entry that all participants grant a license to Centre for Justice in respect of
publication of all essays. Essays may be submitted for publication elsewhere provided the entrant
first notifies Centre for Justice.
Centre for Justice will not publish any essay submitted without an accompanying
acknowledgement of the original author.
Essays must be submitted by 4pm on 20 June 2014. A panel of judges will read all entries,
which will be assessed anonymously. Winners will be announced on 27 June 2014.
The judges will chose only those essays which they deem to be of publishable quality within a
proper academic or journalistic context and which demonstrate sufficient engagement with the
conference topics and themes.
The decision of the judges will be final, and no correspondence will be entered into by Centre for
Justice with entrants in respect of this decision.
Centre for Justice reserves the right to publish essays by those entrants who are not initially
successful or who do not participate in the conference in any form of media thought fit.
Centre for Justice further reserves the right to accept no entrants in the unlikely event that, in the
judges opinion, none of the essays submitted are of the required standard.


About Centre for Justice
A first for Bermuda, Centre for Justice is a non-governmental, non-profit, non-partisan organization
whose aim is to promote the rule of law, human rights and civil liberties in Bermuda in accordance with
the Bermuda Constitution and the rights proclaimed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and
other international human rights instruments such as the European Convention on Human Rights and
Fundamental Freedoms.
Centre for Justice has already sparked discussion through public meetings, newspaper columns and a
television round table on the topics of Police Stop and Search Powers, Your Right to Know, Human
Rights and Sexual Orientation and The Economy and the Link to Human Rights and Social Justice.
Contact information for Centre for Justice:
Website: www.justice.bm
Email Address: info@justice.bm
Telephone: 1-441-542-8181
Fax: 1-441-542-8787
Address: The Armoury Building, Second Floor
37 Reid Street, Hamilton HM12 Bermuda