Welcome

The Association of Human Rights Institutes (AHRI), is a network of over 65 member institutions that carries out research and educational activities in the field of human rights. The member institutions are from 34 different countries. AHRI’s objective is to bring together human rights researchers from across the disciplines, to facilitate the exchange of ideas and collaboration, and to promote research, education and discussion in the field of human rights. AHRI is supportive of PhD researchers and the facilitation of exchange between the different member institutions.

Latest News

• This year’s  conference organisers wish to thank everyone who has submitted abstracts so far. To provide a further opportunity to submit, the deadline has been extended by a few weeks. The Call for Papers will now close on 31^st March 2019.

  Please recall that there will be six primary tracks which will deal with a broad variety of questions linked to the overall theme of the conference, but note also that proposals do not need to be limited to the tracks/theme as the AHRI research conference remains a general platform for discussing new human rights research issues.

  The conference website can be accessed here.

• A new blog about the release of the Recommendations of the Advisory Group for Human Rights Leadership in Scotland by Alan Miller, the Special Envoy of the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions, has been added.
• 2019 AHRI Conference webpage is live! The theme of the conference is ‘Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law: Challenges Ahead’. A broad range of submissions are welcomed. For more information visit https://www.uni-potsdam.de/ahri2019.html
• AHRI AHRI Communications Note
• AHRI Statement of Support for Central European University
• AHRI Edinburgh Declaration on Renewing our Commitment to Human Rights published.
• AHRI 2018 has concluded. You can read about the conference and watch the plenary panels here.