Coalition for Academic Freedom in the Americas
The Executive Director of CLACSO, Karina Batthyány, participated in the 2024 Conference of the Coalition for Academic Freedom in the Americas (CLAA), which is being held in Washington DC, United States, on November 20 and 21.
She coordinated the panel “Norms, policies and challenges for the application of academic freedom” led by Danielle Pamplona from the Pontificia Universidade Católica do Paraná (PUCPR), Brazil; Esteban Oyarzún from the Circle of Studies of International Human Rights Law, Chile; and Ramona Hernandez from the City University of New York (CUNY), United States.
Amidst rapid democratic backsliding and worsening threats to educational communities, the Conference is a critical opportunity to convene and reflect on the state of academic freedom in the hemisphere, to interact and learn from one another, and to explore potential strategies and collective actions to advance respect for, protection of, and fulfillment of this human right. This is the third CLAA regional conference, following those held in Monterrey, Mexico, in 2022 and Curitiba, Brazil, in 2023.
The Conference is jointly organized by CLAA and the Pulte Institute for Global Development – which is part of the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame – with the support of the Central American Research Alliance (CARA), Scholars at Risk (SAR), the University of Monterrey (UDEM) and the Human Rights Research and Education Centre (HRREC) at the University of Ottawa.
The opening speech was given by Fabián Salvioli, a human rights lawyer and professor at the University of La Plata, Argentina, who served as UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence (2018-2024).
The panel discussions explore key topics, such as:
Standards, Policies and Challenges for the Implementation of Academic Freedom;
The Reduction of Academic Spaces;
Academic and Expression Freedom;
Student Mobilization and Organization;
Latin American Perspectives on Academic Freedom;
Protocols Against Gender Violence; and,
Gender Violence and Sexual Harassment.
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