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Call for Papers: AHRI Conference, Lima, Peru, 11-13 September 2025
Call for Applications: Oxford International Human Rights Law Summer School
The Oxford International Human Rights Law Summer School offers an advanced, immersive program for human rights professionals and aspiring practitioners, including lawyers, judges, NGO workers, and students with relevant academic backgrounds. Combining rigorous intellectual engagement with social networking opportunities, the program attracts a diverse cohort from around the world. Admission is competitive, prioritizing applicants with relevant experience and strong qualifications. English proficiency is required unless waived. Applications open on 1 February 2025 and close when all places are filled or by 1 April 2025. Early application is encouraged.
SIM Summer School - International Human Rights: an introduction
The Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM) will run its annual Summer School, International Human Rights Law: An Introduction, from 7 July to 11 July 2025 inclusive. The Summer School provides participants with an in-depth introduction into law and practices relating to: civil and political rights, economic and social rights, armed conflict, and regional human rights systems. The course is taught by experts based at SIM, Utrecht University, through lectures, interactive working groups, a moot, and excursion. It is attended annually by professionals and students from across the global, with an interest in gaining expertise in human rights law. The registration deadline is 20 June 2025.
Gordon F. Henderson Postdoctoral Fellowship 2025-2026
The Human Rights Research and Education Centre (HRREC), University of Ottawa, Canada is accepting applications for the Gordon F. Henderson Postdoctoral Fellowship that will run from 1 September 2025 to August 31 2026. The fellowship is open to researchers with innovative human rights projects, ideally taking a multidisciplinary approach. Requirements: PhD obtained not more than five years prior to December 31, 2025, with research distinct from prior work. The Gordon F. Henderson Postdoctoral Fellowship is offered to a researcher who will spend one year at the University of Ottawa’s Human Rights Research and Education Centre (HRREC) to develop a research focus that is consistent with the Centre’s mandate and that promotes an innovative perspective. Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to the proposed research project will be given preference. The fellowship competition is open to both Canadian citizens and non-citizens. Foreign Candidates must demonstrate that they are able or likely to obtain permission to reside in Canada for the period of one year before August 1st, 2025. The deadline for the application is 31 March 2025.
Call for Abstracts: Thicker Notions of Human Rights Accountabilities
Future Proofing Human Rights is inviting contributions that seek to reconstruct the notion of human rights accountability, divided across five themes: Change, Knowing, Duties, Harm, and Remedy. Future Proofing Human Rights welcome contributions from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, including but not limited to law, socio-legal perspectives, criminology, and political science. The Thicker Notions of Human Rights Accountabilities Conference revisits the questions of what qualifies as a human rights violation, who holds human rights duties and how to actually deliver human rights accountability in the context of pressing and complex challenges. It will be hosted by the Future Proofing Human Rights research project in Brussels, Belgium from 19-21 November 2025. The deadline for submission is 20 June 2025.
The Minerva Center for Human Rights Postdoctoral Fellowship 2025-2026
The Minerva Center for Human Rights Postdoctoral Fellowship in Human Rights 2025-2026 The Minerva Center for Human Rights at Hebrew University of Jerusalem is pleased to announce the opening of applications for postdoctoral fellowships in Human Rights that will run from October 2025 to September 2026. This fellowship is open to researchers from all disciplines and supports research on current human rights challenges, including democracy, AI & human rights, armed conflict. The deadline is March 20, 2025.
Call for Papers: Workshop on the Protection of Human Rights in Armed Conflict, Berlin, 13 June 2025
The Centre for Fundamental Rights at the Hertie School invites submissions for its upcoming workshop on the theme ‘Protection of Human Rights in the Context of Armed Conflict.’ This one day workshop will be in person at the Hertie School on 13 June 2025. This workshop will explore nuanced and complex application of international human rights law (IHRL) during armed conflicts. The workshop welcomes submission from established and early-career scholars, practitioners, and advanced PhD students. Contributions from interdisciplinary researchers and comparative case studies are strongly encouraged. The deadline for this submission is 3 February 2025.
2025 Summer School on International Humanitarian Law
The Human Rights Research and Education Centre (HRREC) and the Canadian Red Cross are offering the 2025 Summer School on International Humanitarian Law (IHL). The aim of this course is to provide students and professional with the fundamentals of international humanitarian law and the opportunity to apply knowledge through realistic case studies and a full day of simulation exercises. The course is offered in both French and English and will run from March 25 to 30, 2025. Registration begins March 1, 2025.
New Publication: Pretoria University Law Press
On 6 December 2024, the Pretoria University Law Press (PULP) has launched the second instalment in its series of commentaries on African human rights treaties: The African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child: A Commentary, coinciding with the 25th anniversary of the African Children’s Charter’s entry into force on 29 November 1999. To date, 51 out of 55 African Union member states have ratified the Charter, underscoring a continent-wide commitment to uphold and advance the rights of children. Download the latest commentary and explore its insights into the progress and challenges of implementing the Charter here.
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CALL FOR PROPOSALS: AHRI CONFERENCE 2025
The Association of Human Rights Institutes (AHRI) is delighted to announce its 2025 Annual Conference, themed “Protecting Human Rights from the Global Spread of Organized Crime.” The conference will take place from September 11-13, 2025, in Lima, Peru, hosted by the Institute of Democracy and Human Rights PUCP (IDEHPUCP). This landmark event marks AHRI’s 25th anniversary and its first-ever conference in Latin America, bringing together global scholars, practitioners, policymakers, and civil society to explore solutions to the growing threats organized crime poses to human rights.
Proposals are now being accepted for panel discussions and papers across four key tracks, ranging from global perspectives on organized crime to reflections on 25 years of human rights challenges and emerging future issues. The conference will adopt a hybrid format, welcoming both in-person and remote participants. Submissions should include an abstract of 300-500 words and adhere to the guidelines outlined in the conference's official call. The deadline for submissions is March 15, 2025.AHRI Announces Collaboration with the Graphix Project. The mission of the Graphix Project (GP) is to collaborate to develop open sourced, multi-lingual human rights education materials available free to activists and partners world-wide in 2023. GP is developing an interactive online platform and a graphic history of human rights book. Through a partnership agreement, AHRI has committed to assisting GP’s human rights research and advocacy by sharing opportunities to get involved with the project amongst the AHRI Network. The GP invites AHRI member institutes and affiliated researchers to: Act as project advisors, informing final project design and implementation Contribute to data gathering over the next 6 months, as interviewers or interviewee Contribute to effective implementation by disseminating the Project findings/outputs Work with the GP team to explore scope for the project outputs (including interactive online platform) to be integrated in their educational curricula. Learn more about the Graphix Project by following the link below.
AHRI adopted a Statement on the War in Gaza
AHRI adopted the Statement on the War in Gaza at the 2024 Executive Committee/Board meeting held on 12 April 2024.
HAKI Journal of Human Rights is an annual peer-reviewed academic journal that seeks to provide researchers, scholars and human rights practitioners with a platform for engaging in human rights theory, practice and advocacy. The journal’s general aim is to broaden the study and practice of human rights by fostering a critical re-examination of existing approaches from an Afrocentric perspective through discussions on themes on the universal theory and practice of human rights.The Journal invites analytically rigorous papers, articles, comments on cases, legislation, policies and book reviews pertaining to various themes in Human Rights in Kenya. For more information click the link below.
AHRI Conference
AHRI Conference 2025 will be hosted by Institute of Democracy and Human Rights in Peru. The Conference will be held from 11 to 13 September 2025. Click here to access call for papers.
For more information, visit the conference website.
AHRI Conference 2026 will be hosted by the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights. More details to follow.