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Human Rights Centre “Antonio Papisca” and Department of Political Science, Law and International Studies, University of Padova, Italy Call for papers in the context of the International Research Conference 'Towards an inclusive governance of “EU fundamental values”: current pitfalls and possible solutions for a consistent multi-level protection of the rule of law, democracy and human rights within and outside the EU' The Conference is on 8-9 November 2021 / Deadline for the call for paper 29 September 2021. The call for papers launched, in cooperation with other 5 international human rights research institutes, is open to human rights scholars, researchers and Ph.D candidates. Preference will be given to sound proposals which contribute addressing, from different disciplinary perspectives the following topics: • The potential role and actual engagement of local governments in EU initiatives for upholding the Rule of Law • Towards a comprehensive EU values mechanism? A critique of new EU tools to uphold the Rule of Law, Democracy and Fundamental Rights • Ruling the Rule of Law • Whose welfare? Inclusionary/exclusionary welfare state dynamic and the EU values • The Interconnections between Whistleblowing and the Rule of Law in the EU • European Union Public Diplomacy and Soft Power - values and ideas • European Security during the Covid-19 crisis All information about the call for paper and the International research conference are available below.
Human Rights Centre " Antonio Papisca", University of Padova, Italy Event: November 8-9, 2021 International Research Conference The Conference aims to both exchange perspectives and critical views on the current state of play in EU efforts to promote and protect EU values, both within the European space and in the wider international context, and to discuss a number of prospective alternative solutions, or strategies, to make current and future EU efforts more effective and sustainable in the long term.
Human Rights Research and Education Centre, Canada Call for Application Deadline November 1, 2021 IMAGES of JUSTICE: The Right to Housing! The Human Rights Research and Education Centre (HRREC) is pleased to participate, in partnership with CONTEKST, The SHIFT, the Faculty of Law, Common Law Section, the Ryerson Lincoln Alexander School of Law, and The Law Foundation of Ontario, in the third edition of IMAGES of JUSTICE: The Right to Housing! This edition will exhibit satirical and comic visualization of various facets and challenges of the human right to adequate housing. The images of this series will shed light upon challenges, inconsistencies, and flaws within the current framework of the human right to housing and its full realization. We invite cartoonists and illustrators to submit their work by NOVEMBER 1st, 2021 to info@contekst.education. To view previous editions of Images of Justice, visit https://contekst.education/exhibits/. Third edition of IMAGES of JUSTICE: The Right to Housing. https://cdp-hrc.uottawa.ca/en/images-justice-2021-right-housing-call-artists
News
Human Rights Centre “Antonio Papisca” and Department of Political Science, Law and International Studies, University of Padova, Italy Call for papers in the context of the International Research Conference 'Towards an inclusive governance of “EU fundamental values”: current pitfalls and possible solutions for a consistent multi-level protection of the rule of law, democracy and human rights within and outside the EU' The Conference is on 8-9 November 2021 / Deadline for the call for paper 29 September 2021. The call for papers launched, in cooperation with other 5 international human rights research institutes, is open to human rights scholars, researchers and Ph.D candidates. Preference will be given to sound proposals which contribute addressing, from different disciplinary perspectives the following topics: • The potential role and actual engagement of local governments in EU initiatives for upholding the Rule of Law • Towards a comprehensive EU values mechanism? A critique of new EU tools to uphold the Rule of Law, Democracy and Fundamental Rights • Ruling the Rule of Law • Whose welfare? Inclusionary/exclusionary welfare state dynamic and the EU values • The Interconnections between Whistleblowing and the Rule of Law in the EU • European Union Public Diplomacy and Soft Power - values and ideas • European Security during the Covid-19 crisis All information about the call for paper and the International research conference are available below.
Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice, Sheffield Hallam University, UK: Dr Sunita Toor wins an Asian Women of Achievement Award Dr Sunita Toor, Head of Human Rights and Social Justice, won the award in the Social and Humanitarian category in recognition of her work leading a project to improve access to justice for women and girl victims of violence in India.
Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice, Sheffield Hallam University, UK Professor Laura Murphy’s latest book: "Freedomville - The Story of a 21st-Century Slave Revolt” Millions of people worldwide are still enslaved, and nearly 8 million of them live in India. In her new book, Professor Laura Murphy tells the story of a group of enslaved villagers in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh who founded their own town of Azad Nagar – Freedomville – after staging a contemporary rebellion against their slaveholders. Professor Murphy has been interviewed by the New York Times where she talks about her book "Freedomville: The Story of a 21st-Century Slave Revolt”. Freedomville: The Story of a 21st-Century Slave Revolt, Nearly 40 Million People Are Still Enslaved Worldwide, The New York Times, 2 October 2021, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/02/us/enslaved-people-worldwide.html
Danish Institute for Human Rights, Denmark Book publication: The Domestic Institutionalisation of Human Rights A book has just been published, co-edited by Stéphanie Lagoutte, Sébastien Lorion and Steven Jensen of the Danish Institute for Human Rights, which originally spurred from two panels organised at the 2018 AHRI Conference held in Edinburgh! Entitled "The Domestic Institutionalisation of Human Rights" and published with Routledge, the book explores converging international trends prescribing the setting up of domestic institutions. Indeed, building on new compliance theories, innovative arrangements have resolutely appeared around the turn of the millennium and some are now legally enshrined in human rights treaties. It singles out the purposeful attempt by the United Nations and others to frame these trends around the concept of ‘National Human Rights System’. The book chapters assess various models and cases put forward for such systems. Each chapter highlights the specific forms of institutions being promoted and their intended domestic interactions, and discusses how these institutions are leveraged and strengthened by international bodies. Authors critically review their implications for the future of human rights, paving the way for additional research. The book is based on a Special Issue of the Nordic Journal of Human Rights. The introduction is available in open access below.
Centre for the Study of Human Rights Law, University of Strathclyde, UK A Scottish Government National Taskforce for Human Rights Leadership, co-chaired by a Centre for the Study of Human Rights Law Professor, Alan Miller, has made 30 recommendations to introduce a new human rights framework for Scotland. The Taskforce, co-chaired by Professor Alan Miller and Scottish Government Cabinet Secretary, Shirley-Anne Somerville, which also included Strathclyde’s Professor Elisa Morgera as a member and Dr Elaine Webster on the Taskforce’s Advisory Panel, was established in early 2019. Its task was to set out a new statutory framework to bring internationally recognised human rights into domestic law following Brexit which was understood to have weakened the present framework of human rights and social protections and which gave impetus to the need of a new framework. In a newly-published report the Taskforce makes a total of 30 recommendations which have been accepted by the Scottish Government. Dependent upon the outcome of the Scottish general election in May the government will introduce in the next session of the Parliament a Bill to introduce the new framework. It will introduce the internationally recognised rights such as the right to an adequate standard of living including adequate food and housing, the right to a healthy environment, the right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, the right to social security and the right to take part in cultural life. The full news item can be found on the Strathclyde website.
The Sussex Centre for Human Rights Research, UK Event Autumn Seminar Series The Sussex Centre for Human Rights Research's is excited to invite you to attend its Autumn seminar series. The majority of events will be held either as online only or hybrid events. Details about how to sign up for online access will be distributed via our mailing list (to sign up, please contact Prof Nuno Ferreira (N.Ferreira@sussex.ac.uk)). Visit here for more information. http://www.sussex.ac.uk/schrr/forthcoming/ 1-2pm BST 20th October, Isilay Taban, University of Brighton 'Facilitating Minority-Refugees' Access to Refugee Rights: An Intersectional Approach' (Hybrid Event) 1-2pm GMT 3rd November, Ronagh McQuigg, School of Law, QUB (Online Event) 'Domestic Abuse during the COVID-19 Pandemic - International Human Rights Responses' 2-3:30pm GMT 12th November, Alexandra Xanthaki, Brunel Law School ‘Fragmentation in the Field of Cultural Rights: Ways Forward’. (Hybrid event) 2-3:30pm GMT 19th November: PhD Work in Progress (Online Event) Cecilia Manzotti, Sussex Law School, 'The role and relevance of nationality status determination in asylum procedures under the CEAS and the potential impact of the “New Pact on Migration and Asylum”’ Isabella Leroy, Amsterdam Centre for Migration and Refugee Law, ‘Exceptionalism in action? The legal impacts of the COVID pandemic on the Centro de Estancia Temporal de Inmigrantes of Melilla.
Past Opportunities
FRA (European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights )
Event: 20, 21 and 22 Oct: FRA organises in cooperation with ENHRI and EQUINET the virtual seminar “The role of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union in the work of equality bodies and National Human Rights Institutions”. For FRA Charter resources see here.
Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law of the American University Washington College of Law, U.S.A
Call for applications: LLM in International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
Deadline: 1 August 2021
Apply to the LL.M. in International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at American University Washington College of Law (AUWCL). AUWCL is ranked #4 in International Law, and it is the only Law school in the U.S. to offer a hybrid LL.M. program in International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law with online and residential course components in both English and Spanish. This unique LL.M. is designed for practitioners and other human rights advocates who wish to pursue advanced studies in international human rights law and humanitarian law alongside their existing work responsibilities. AUWCL has built an outstanding reputation in this field, and it is highly recognized around the world. Moreover, its unique location in Washington D.C. offers unparalleled opportunities to legal professionals from the U.S. and worldwide. Students will meet world-renowned human rights experts who will become professional contacts for future work-related opportunities.
This degree is also offered in Spanish (LL.M. en Derechos Humanos y Derecho Internacional Humanitario). Students can select to take courses in English and Spanish or complete their LL.M. fully in Spanish.
Applications for Fall 2021 are now open! Applications are being reviewed on a rolling admission basis. Scholarship opportunities are available. The Deadline to apply for the Fall Semester is August 1, 2021. To learn more about the program, contact us at humanrightsllm@wcl.american.edu.
Call For Papers, Comparative Law Review vol. 7 ( 2021)
Deadline: June 30th 2021
Comparative Law Review (ISSN 0866-9449) (‘CLR’) is an open access, peer-reviewed and refereed international journal published by the Faculty of Law and Administration at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń (Poland) since 1989 (with some intervals). The scope of ‘CLR’ includes both private and public law, with particular focus on comparative studies. The Editors encourage authors to submit articles and shorter notes that are interdisciplinary in nature and/or analyse a legal problem from a comparative perspective sense largo. The Journal invites papers concerning both what is known as classic comparative law, as well as multi-aspect and multi-dimensional comparative law (comparative aspects of legal norms, institutions, branches of law, legal systems, families, and types of law, comparison from the perspective of time/space/evolution). Apart from that, we are open to publishing papers concerning only foreign law, provided that they can serve as valuable material for law-comparative studies. We particularly welcome proposals elaborating on how the comparative method is applied in domestic and international law-making and jurisprudence. Consequently, we invite original contributions on public international law (including IHRL and IHL) and EU law. By the same token, we welcome papers dealing with all fields of domestic law, legal theory and philosophy, as well as history of law.
For additional information, please visit the journal’s website: www.comparativelawreview.umk.pl
Human Rights Department, Faculty of Law and Administration, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland
Nicolaus Copernicus University Human Rights Department lecture series on ‘Contemporary issues of human rights theory and practice. Global, regional and national perspectives’. Please see the website for further details.
Call for Applications: TELSP – Toruń Economic and Legal Summer Program
Dates: 4 weeks, 16 August 2021-12 September 2021
Deadline: 14 May 2021, 14:00 CET, applications open from 19 April 2021
The Faculty of Economic Sciences and Management and the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland, are pleased to welcome applications for the 1st edition of the TELSP program. TELSP is an opportunity for students to lead a 4-week-long summer research project in one of the projects available, such as ‘The crisis of representative democracy’, ‘Current challenges to human rights protection in Europe’, and ‘The 20th century and present critique as a basis to strengthen protection of democracy, rule of law and human rights’. Eligibility: Advanced undergraduate & PhD students from all countries. The Project is sponsored by the NCU. There is no tuition fee, successful applicants are offered accommodation and a daily allowance. Travel costs will not be reimbursed.
More details are available on the website.
Human Rights Law Centre, University of Nottingham, UK
Event: Taking Stock of the European Social Charter at 60
Date: 28 April 2021
The University of Nottingham Human Rights Law Centre, together with the Roma Tre Centro Internazionale di Ricerca ‘Diritto e Globalizzazione’and the European Social Charter Department of the Council of Europe, invite you to an event marking the 60th anniversary of the 1961 European Social Charter. Featuring expert speakers, this workshop will focus on ‘taking stock’ of the Charter and the work of its supervisory body – the European Committee of Social Rights – so far. The event will take place on line on 28 April, 10:00-13:30 GMT.
The European Social Charter system is the oldest and most wide-ranging instrument providing for social rights in Europe. From the gender pay gap to the rights of migrants and unaccompanied children, from older persons’ rights to right to strike, the Charter has proved a living instrument capable of engaging with the challenges faced by Europeans in the 60 years since its adoption. Despite this, the system remains frequently neglected and misunderstood both by social rights and human rights law actors. This event will both celebrate and critique the European Social Charter system in light of the legal, social and political factors that have shaped it since 1961.
Speakers will address:
- Key thematic areas in terms of the European Social Charter, including older person’s rights, children’s rights, the right to health, and equality and non-discrimination
- The European Social Charter’s contribution to a European model of social rights
- Key institutional developments throughout the history of the system – and the reasons for those developments
Confirmed speakers include:
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· Colm O’Cinneide
· Keith Ewing Brexit, the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement and the European Social Charter · Claire Lougarre The interpretation of the right to health in the European Social Charter: 60 years on
· Karin Lukas The European Social Charter and Equality · Aoife Nolan Of indivisibility and interdependence: Children’s Rights under the European Social Charter |
· Tonia Novitz How the ESC Progresses ILO standards – A Brief Historical Journey · Michael O’Flaherty The European Social Charter and Human Rights Protection in the European Union · Giuseppe Palmisano Improving the functioning of the treaty system of the ESC: a work in progress · Gerard Quinn Active Citizenship & Social Rights: a 21st Century Agenda for the European Social Charter as it applies to Older Persons · David Harris Title TBC |
See the website for online registration.
FRA (European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights)
Call for Applications: LLM in International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights
Deadline: 29 January 2021 (for applications with a scholarship) and 26 February 2021 (for applications without a scholarship).
Applications for the 2021-2022 academic year of this programme are open!
Selected recent publications:
· Crime, safety and victims’ rights – Summary – Fundamental Rights Survey, Currently available in EN; further languages to come in 2021
Selected upcoming publications:
· End of March: report onPresumption of innocence: procedural rights in criminal proceedings
· April: FRA Opinion on equality in the EU 20 years on from the initial implementation of the equality directives
Selected recent events:
· Beginning of March: Fundamental Rights Forum 2021: website and call for proposals launched. Do you have an idea for a session that could help shape the human rights agenda for the years to come? Then, we want to hear from you – visit the website.
Selected upcoming events:
· End of April: Anniversary event on the EU Charter in Warsaw, national follow-up event to the EU level event of 7 December 2020 (similar events were already held in France, Hungary, Spain and other countries will follow).
Other information of interest:
· Check FRA publications here.
· Check FRA news here.
· Subscribe to the FRA newsletter here.