Human Rights
Human Rights is a topic that is continually 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.
Studium Generale is organising this series of lectures, which will explore the significance of human rights in a globalising world. The lectures will demonstrate how human rights are increasingly becoming an instrument by which the negative side-effects of globalisation may be challenged.
Extra information
Costs for the whole series
UM students €10 / UM employees and students from other schools €25 / Others €50
Registration
Registration via sg-lectures@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Lecturers
Prof. Jan Willems
Jennifer Sellin, PhD
Prof. Jure Vidmar
Prof. Fred Grünfeld
Gustavo Arosemena, PhD
All International Law, UM
The individual lectures
1. Children's Rights and Competent Parenting: New Developments (Jan Willems/23 Sep)
2. Access to Medicine (Jennifer Sellin/30 Sep)
3. Democracy and Human Right Treaties (Jure Vidmar/7 Oct)
4. Genocide: The Role of Bystanders. International Prevention and Local Commemoration (Fred Grünfeld/14 Oct)
5. Poverty as a Human Rights Violation: Prospects and Problems (Gustavo Arosemena/28 Oct)