Deadline Extended (Aug. 15th): Sur Journal promotes debate on human rights and development

Sur – International Journal on Human Rights, a publication by Conectas Human Rights aiming at promoting critical debate on human rights practices in the Global South, is receiving articles to its next issue, number 17, on “Human Rights and Development: Ideas and Strategies for the 21th Century.”

This issue will discuss the contradictions between sustained economic growth and consumption in Global South countries and, both the challenges on access to rights on those same countries, and the inefficacy of traditional civil society strategies to cope with those challenges. 

 

“In countries such as in Brazil where washing machines are available in places where clean water is still scarce, Sur Journal invites authors to rethink economic growth from a human rights perspective”, explains Thiago Amparo, Research and Training Coordinator at Conectas. 

 

Authors interested in having their manuscripts considered to this issue, to be published on the second half of 2012, should submit their manuscripts until August 15th. Contributions should be sent electronically (in Microsoft Word format with maximum length of 70,000 characters) to the email address artigo.sur@conectas.org. More information is available here. This edition of Sur Journal will be published in partnership with DeJusticia (Colombia) and the São Paulo Law School of the Getúlio Vargas Foundation (Brazil), in addition to the ongoing partnership with Fundação Carlos Chagas. 

 

SUR is published twice a year in English, Portuguese and Spanish and distributed free of charge to approximately 2,400 readers in over 100 countries, who identify with and are engaged in the human right cause. SUR is covered by the following abstracting and indexing services: IBSS (International Bibliography of the Social Sciences); ISN Zurich (International Relations and Security Network); DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals); Scielo and SSRN (Social Science Research Network). In addition, SUR is also available at the following commercial databases: EBSCO and HEINonline. SUR has been rated A1 and B1, in Colombia and in Brazil (Qualis), respectively.