Reports on an international conference of human rights professionals held in 1982. Topics covered include ethnicity, intergroup relations, migration, immigration, emigration, and women's rights. (KH)

Provides a summary of discussion at an international conference of human rights professionsls in 1982. Covers a wide range of subjects, from women's access to positions of economic power, to day care facilities as a means of expanding choices of both women and men who work in or out of the home. (KH)

Summarizes a background paper presented and discussion held on affirmative action at a 1978 conference for human rights professionals. Paper focuses on litigation relating to jobs and educational opportunity in the United States, while discussion considers affirmative action in Canada and Western Europe. (GC)

Discussed in this paper are five areas in which human rights advocates can work to insure that all Americans will have equal opportunities in employment, education, housing, and public accomodations. These areas are litigation, enforcement, community organization, education/training, and research. (Author/EB)

Economic justice means taking the personhood of poor people into account; respecting their needs, personal ambitions, rights, and dignity; and affording equal opportunity and equal access to education, health care, housing, and jobs. Examples of injustice to minority groups are provided, citing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. (SLD)

Summarizes discussion at an international conference of human rights professionals in 1982. Addresses such topics as: police-community relations, education and the mass media, the roles of human rights agencies, affirmative action, the impact of new technology, new challenges in dealing with discrimination, and coalition-building. (KH)