Mobilising Social Justice

  
ISS and Hivos to Host a Conference on Civil Society Building

The International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of Erasmus University
Rotterdam in the Netherlands, in partnership with the Dutch development NGO
Hivos, will be hosting a two-day conference, entitled:

The conference, which will take place at the Chalsty Centre at the University of
the Witwatersrand on the 23rd and 24th of November, is the culmination of a two year ‘Knowledge Programme on Civil Society Buiding’ between the two
organisations. The conference will present the results of several research
projects that the Programme has supported.

The research projects were born from the three-pronged objectives of (a)
exploring the dynamics of civil society, (b) the roles of external actors and (c)
the potential of civil society to stimulate structural changes.
The research projects to be presented include:

• The role of civil society in the parliamentary budget process
• The role of social movements in accessing basic services
• Civil society and challenges to the right to protest
• The dynamics of migrant community mobilisation

Speakers include Yasmoon Sooka of the Foundation of Human Rights and Shahrukh Alam of the Patna Collective in Bangalore, India.

For more information and to organise interviews please contact:
Ghadija Vallie
082 589 0 589