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Conferences, seminars and announcements
October-December 2007: International Human Rights Law Short Course given at The University of Nottingham Human Rights Law Centre. The course is intended for persons who are interested in gaining an in-depth understanding of international human rights standards and the international machinery of the United Nations, Council of Europe, the OAS and the African Union for implementing these standards and how this machinery works in practice. The Centre will give assistance to participants who are seeking a human rights career in an IGO or NGO.
5-7 November: Making Institutions Work for the Poor. Annual conference of the Norwegian Association for Development Research at Chr. Michelsen Institute.
12-16 November 2007: Challenges to International Humanitarian Law is an intensive course organized by the Institute for Human Rights at Åbo Akademi University, in co-operation with the Finnish Red Cross, held in Turku/Åbo, Finland. The course is intended to provide insights into new developments of, and challenges to international humanitarian law. International experts will, inter alia, deal with the interaction between human rights law, humanitarian law and international criminal law. Issues such as child soldiers and genocide will also be covered in the substance of the course. Application deadline: 14 September 2007.
14-23 November 2007: Basic Course on International Human Rights Protection is organised by the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights. The course is intended for persons working in the field of human rights or associated areas who are interested in expanding their knowledge of human rights and it is open to academics and representatives from State administration, government agencies as well as civil society organisations. Closing date for applications is 1 August 2007.
23-24 November 2007: Methods of Human Rights Research. A conference hosted by the The Maastricht Centre for Human Rights, based at the Faculty of Law of the University of Maastricht. The key question that will be considered at the conference is: by which criteria can a product of human rights research be qualified as a methodologically sound piece of work? The conference will attempt to identify ‘good practices’ in methods of human rights research. What are examples of such good practices and what are examples of practices that are unsatisfactory from a methodological point of view? And are there aspects and considerations that are typical for the methods of research applied in the field of human rights? These questions will be considered from the perspective of three broad scholarly disciplines: law (including international law and criminal law); social sciences (including criminology, political science, comparative politics, international relations and anthropology); and the humanities (including philosophy and history).
28 November - 2 december 2007: Harvard Negotiation Insight Initiative, Autumn institute, La Jolla, California.
AHRI Member Institutions:
Belgrade Centre for Human Rights,
Serbia and Montenegro
Centre for Human Rights,
Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
Centre for the Study of Global Ethics, University of Birmingham, UK
Centre
for the Study of Human Rights, London School of Economics and Political
Science, UK
Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway
Danish Institute for Human Rights
Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights, University of Helsinki
European Training- and Research Centre
for Human Rights and Democracy, Graz, Austria
German Institute for
Human Rights
Human Rights Centre,
University of Essex, England (UK)
Human Rights Centre, Queen’s
University, Belfast, Northern Ireland (UK)
Human Rights Law Centre,
University of Nottingham School of Law, England (UK)
Icelandic Human Rights Center
Institute for Human Rights, Åbo
Akademi University, Finland
Institute of Human
Rights, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
Institute of Human Rights, University
of Latvia
Institute for Minority Rights, European Academy (EURAC) Bozen/Bolzano, Italy
Irish Centre for Human Rights,
National University of Ireland, Galway
Ludwig Boltzmann
Institute of Human Rights, Austria
Maastricht Centre for
Human Rights, Maastricht University, Faculty of Law, The Netherlands
Netherlands
Institute of Human Rights (SIM), University of Utrecht
Norwegian Centre for Human
Rights, University of Oslo
Poznan Centre for Human Rights, Polish Academy of Sciences
Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights
and Humanitarian Law, Lund, Sweden
Transitional Justice
Institute, University of Ulster, Jordanstown/Magee (UK)
AHRI Co-Operation Agreement
AHRI Co-Operation AgreementAHRI Chair
Professor dr. juris Mr Geir Ulfstein, Director, Norwegian Centre for Human Rights
AHRI Executive Secretary
Ms Guro Frostestad, Senior Executive Officer, Norwegian Centre for Human Rights
E-mail: guro.frostestad at nchr.uio.no
Phone: + 47 - 22 84 20 32
AHRI Research Cooperation
COST project A28: Human Rights, Peace and Security in EU Foreign Policy
- Official website of the Action
- General information
- Science Officer and Management Committee
- Memorandum of Understanding (including the research plan)
AHRI conferences
2007: 8th Annual AHRI Conference i Belgrade
2006: 7th Annual AHRI Conference in Baden/Vienna
2005: 6th Annual AHRI Conference in Galway
2004: 5th Annual AHRI Conference in Oslo
AHRI Assembly meetings
2007: Minutes from the AHRI Assembly Meeting in Belgrade
2006: Minutes from the AHRI Assembly Meeting in Vienna
2005: Minutes from the AHRI Assembly Meeting in Galway
2004: Minutes from the AHRI Assembly Meeting in Oslo
Journals and publication series
Baltic Yearbook of International Law
Human Rights in Development Yearbook
International Journal on Minority and Group Rights
Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights
Nordic Journal of Human Rights
Nordic Journal of International Law
Raoul Wallenberg Institute Human Rights Library (Blue Series)
Raoul Wallenberg Institute Series of Intergovernmental Human Rights Documentation (Green Series)
Raoul Wallenberg Institute Thematic Human Rights Guides (Red Series)
Raoul Wallenberg Institute Report Series
Educational opportunities
European Master's Programme
Denmark
The Danish Institute for Human Rights offers the following International Courses in 2007:
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29 October-2 November 2007: Human Rights Monitoring and Reporting in Developing Countries
- 26 November-7 December 2007: International Human Rights - Basic Course
Finland
Hungary
- Central European University (CEU) Summer University. (Course calendar includes many subjects including human rights)
Ireland
- LLM in International Human Rights Law (National University of Ireland, Galway)
- LLM in International Peace Support Operations (National University of Ireland, Galway)
- LLM in Human Rights Law (University of Ulster)
Norway
- Master's Degree in The Theory And Practice Of Human Rights (M.Phil)
- Introduction to Human Rights Law
Sweden
- Master Programmes in International Human Rights Law
- Master's Programme in Human Rights and Intellectual Property Rights Law
Publications
Christine Bell, Peace Agreements and Human Rights: Their Nature and Legal Status, in American Journal of International Law, 2006 (2):373-412.
The term “peace agreement,” a key device for negotiating an end to internal conflicts, remains largely undefined and unexplored. This article describes the various patterns of peace agreements to illustrate how the parties attempt to “legalize” their commitments so as to induce compliance. It argues that peace agreement legalization demonstrates a coherence that merits its consideration as an emerging lex pacificatoria or “law of the peacemakers.”
W. Vandenhole, Non-Discrimination and Equality in the View of the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies, Antwerp: Intersentia, 2005, xiii + 293 blz. ISBN 90-5095-500-2.
Wouter Vandenhole holds an LL.M. in Law in Development from the University of Warwick (UK) and a PhD. from the K.U.Leuven (Belgium). He was a senior teaching assistant at the European Masters Degree in Human Rights and Democratisation (Venice, Italy), and a researcher at the Institute for Human Rights of the Law Faculty of the K.U.Leuven. He currently is a senior researcher at the Center for Transboundary Legal Development of Tilburg University (The Netherlands)."Equality is without any doubt one of the central principles of human rights law. Non-discrimination and equality feature prominently in most of the UN core human rights treaties. But do the human rights treaty bodies understand these principles by and large in a similar way? Do they recognize the same grounds of discrimination? Have largely similar obligations been derived from the principles of equality and non-discrimination? How is gender-based discrimination treated? These and many other questions are addressed in this work. For the first time, all UN Committees decisions on non-discrimination and equality general comments/recommendations, concluding comments/observations, as well as views/opinions in individual complaints procedures are comprehensively and comparatively reviewed. Each Committee is thoroughly examined. Also, convergence and divergence, communality and particularity among the Committees is scrutinized. This book may be useful for scholars and practioners who need detailed information on how non-discrimination and equality are interpreted by the UN human rights treaty bodies. Decision-makers in the current reform process of the UN human rights reporting procedure too may benefit from the insights gained in this book."
Editors: Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, webmaster@nchr.uio.no
Document created: 24.09.2004, certified: 11.10.2007