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CAS in Responsible Business Conduct (RBC) 2025: The Application is now open!
After the successful programme launch earlier this year, the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Zurich is pleased to announce that applications are now open for the 2025 Certificate in Advanced Studies (CAS) in Responsible Business Conduct! The course aims to support professionals seeking a continuing education programme to enhance their skills in the dynamic field of RBC. By adopting a practical approach emphasising risk-based due diligence, participants will acquire the tools necessary to harmonise business practices with the principles of RBC, incl. human rights and environmental sustainability. This practice-oriented CAS in RBC is a fully online study programme in English and starts in February 2025. The application deadline for the 2025 programme is 31 October 2024.
Call for Papers – MenschenRechtsMagazin
MRM is constantly looking for contributions in German and English for the upcoming issues. Contributions can be submitted directly via website at www.menschenrechtsmagazin.de. The MRM is published twice a year at the beginning of the summer and winter semesters. The MRM offers the possibility to publish articles in the “Essay” section, which are subject to a double-blind peer review process. Comments, controversies, short articles or event-related discussions are welcome in the general “Contributions” section. The editorial team is also interested in case discussions and book reviews. Articles in the “Contributions” section, as well as case discussions and book reviews, are subject to editorial review. “Essays” and “Contributions” should not exceed 10,000 words (including footnotes). They should be preceded by a German and English abstract of no more than 200 words and 5-10 keywords in German and English. Case discussions should not exceed the word limit of 5,000 words (including footnotes). They should be preceded by approximately five key sentences in German and English. Individual book reviews should not exceed the word limit of 5,000 words (including footnotes). In the case of collective reviews or in individual cases, the length may be extended by agreement.
Call for Papers TEGL Annual Conference
Maastricht University is pleased to invite scholars, practitioners, and experts to this year’s TEGL Annual Conference titled “Re-imagining Law for Sustainable Globalisation: Navigating Uncertainty in a Globalised Era”. The conference will take place in Maastricht on December 16-17, 2024, supported by the Sector Plan ‘Transformative Effects of Globalisation and Law’ and the Globalisation and Law Network. PhD Session: the Conference will also feature a PhD session, aimed at fostering discussions on the role of law in coping with uncertainties raised by different global crises. PhD candidates are invited to share their work and receive feedback from peers and senior scholars. Submission Guidelines: Abstracts of no more than 500 words are invited for paper and panel proposals. Please submit your proposals and a short bio (of max. 200 words) by the 15th of September 2024.
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Call for Application: Fully Funded PhD Opportunity at the Irish Centre for Human Rights in the field of Islamic Law and Gender
The Irish Centre for Human Rights, School of Law, University of Galway is pleased to offer one doctoral scholarship in the field of Islamic Law and Gender. The selected candidate will be supervised by Professor Roja Fazaeli and supported by a Graduate Research Committee. The candidate will work closely with the research team working on the European Research Council funded project ‘Building Conceptual and Methodological Expertise for the Study of Gender, Agency and Authority in Islam (BILQIS)’. The Scholarship is tenable for a maximum of four years, renewable every year subject to satisfactory progress and recommendation by the Graduate Research Committee. Interested candidates should submit the following: Curriculum vitae (maximum three pages) An academic writing sample (e.g., published article, policy report, NGO report, or graduate writing sample) In addition to the above, you mustsubmit the following documents: PhD proposal (setting out the project’s aims in relation to BILQIS, objectives, research questions, and a research schedule) (max three pages). An outline of the proposed research methodology (how the applicant intends to carry out the proposed research), max two pages. Two academic references: Please note that the applicant must contact his/her referees to ensure that references are received before the closing date/time for this scholarship. All academic transcripts. Applicants whose first language is not English must submit satisfactory evidence of competence in written and spoken English, i.e., overall IELTS 6.5 (including a minimum of 6.5 in the reading and writing parts and no part below 6.0) or 90 in the TOEFL iBT (with a minimum of 22 (reading) and 24 (writing) and no part below 20.) Fluency in Arabic and/or Norwegian or Swedish is highly desirable. The required documentation, including letters of reference, should be emailed to bilqis@universityofgalway.ie no later than 5 pm July 26th 2024.
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.
Call for Papers – Peace Human Rights Governance
TPeace Human Rights Governance (PHRG), the open access journal of the University of Padova Human Rights Centre “Antonio Papisca”, welcomes original articles for the ensuing issues. The Journal, which has just renewed its editorial board, is interested in contributions that deal with the broader human rights debate, with specific attention to issues related to actors, processes and norms that shape its global agenda and may contribute to establish a more peaceful and just world order. Articles can consider these issues at either the local, national, regional and global/international level or from a multi-level perspective. PHRG mainly publishes four types of original scholarly contributions: research articles, practitioner papers (human rights field notes), policy papers and review papers (for more details, see https://phrg.padovauniversitypress.it/manuscript-submission). Manuscripts, formatted following the journal’s form and style guidelines, should be sent to phrg.journal@unipd-centrodirittiumani.it by 22nd September 2024. The Journal, which contributes to the Padova Human Rights Centre’s vision of promoting the realisation of a culture founded on universal values such as human rights, peace, preservation of the environment, and international solidarity in the field of academic publishing is also supported by the University of Padova UNESCO Chair in Human Rights, Democracy and Peace. Following peer review, accepted papers are immediately published with a DOI in the “online first” section of the site, and then collected into periodic issues (six-monthly). All published articles, the members of the international editorial board and all relevant information about the journal aims, vision and ethical code are available at: https://phrg.padovauniversitypress.it/
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 2024 will be hosted by Raoul Wallenberg Institute for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at Lund University, Sweden. The Conference will be held from 13 to 14 September 2024. Click here to access the call for papers.
For more information, visit the conference website.
AHRI Conference 2025 will be hosted by the Institute of Democracy and Human Rights in Peru. More details to follow.