Building on Indigenous Concepts of Human Rights: A Conversation with Dr. Mahnaz Afkhami

A Conversation with Dr . Edward

Ample evidence shows that KDD has become a major topic of interest in both research and industry in China since 2006. In academia, professor Zhi-Hua Zhou at Nanjing University in 2006 chaired a National Machine Learning workshop, inviting researchers in the greater China area to share their experience. In 2009, the first Asian Conference on Machine learning was inaugurated in Nanjing. In indust...

A Question and Answer Session on the Meaning of Being Human , with Dr. Gholamreza Aavani

A Conversation Without End: Human Rights Law In Perspective?

Balancing Rights or Building Rights? Reconciling the Right to Use Customary Systems of Law with Competing Human Rights in Pursuit of Indigenous Sovereignty

In 2007, after more than 20 years of exhaustive negotiations, drafts and re-drafts between indigenous groups and member states, the United Nations (“UN”) finally adopted the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (“Declaration”) by an overwhelming majority.2 The UN thereby recognized the right of indigenous peoples “to promote, develop and maintain their . . . distinctive customs, spir...

The Placebo Effect: A Conversation With Dr Irving Kirsch