The 2015 Second Asian Symposium on Human Rights Education(SHARE)is a three-day symposium in August that will provide an interdisciplinary platform for academics, researchers, policy makers, human rights advocates, students and professionals. With the theme Human Rights: The Road to Reform, the conference will promote a greater understanding and access to human rights and help to equalize the process of globalization.

The symposium will precede the 70th Hiroshima Peace Memorial and Remembrance Ceremony. Registration includes meals and a free trip to Miyajima to see the "floating" torii gate -one of the three views of Japan and a UNESCO world heritage site.

Abstracts must be submitted through our online submission system. The symposium will focus on the following themes:

Abduction and Detention
Arms Control
Arts and Cultural Life
Censorship
Children and Youth
Civil Rights
Colonialism / Post-colonialism
Corporate Social Responsibility
Crimes Against Humanity
Disability Rights
Documenting Human Rights Abuses
Domestic Violence
Elderly and Aging
Employment and the Workplace
Environmental Rights
Families / Marriage and Parenting
Forced Disappearance
Forced Labor and Slavery
Forced Marriage
Freedom of Opinion and Expression
Gender Studies (Women, Men, LGBT)
HIV/AIDS
Human Rights Education
Human Trafficking and Sexual Slavery
Immigration and Migrant Rights
Imprisonment and Torture
Indigenous Peoples
Injustice and Inequality
International Justice
Law and Compliance
Life, Liberty and Personal Security
MDGs (poverty, universal education, etc.)
Organ Trafficking
Peace Studies
Philosophy of Human Rights
Political Rights
Privacy and Disclosure
Refugees and Diaspora Issues
Religious Freedom
Social Justice
Social Security
Other Areas (please specify)