Human Rights
Human Rights is a topic that is constantly on the agenda. We keep hoping things will change for the better, but atrocities are daily news. Uprisings and big political changes can lead to better human rights conditions, but also to war and crimes against humanity. This series of lectures will explore the significance of human rights in a globalising world. The lectures will demonstrate how human rights are increasingly becoming an instrument with which to challenge the negative side effects of globalisation.
The individual lectures
1. Introduction to International Human Rights (Coomans / 2 March)
2. Children’s Rights (Hopman / 9 March)
3. Litigating Human Rights in Europe (Claes / 16 March)
4. Bystanders to Gross Human Rights Violations (Moerland / 23 March)
5. Human Rights of Girls and Women and the Influence of Culture (Westendorp / 13 April)
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Dates
Tuesday 2, 9, 16 and 23 March, and 13 April – 19:30 to 21:30
Costs whole series
UM students for free
UM employees and students from other schools €12,50
Others €25
Registration
You can register here for this lecture series.
About the speaker
Prof. Fons Coomans
Marieke Hopman, PhD
Prof. Monica Claes
Roland Moerland, PhD
Ingrid Westendorp, PhD
All International and European Law, UM