Welcome to AHRI's September newsletter. We hope that this month's newsletter finds you all well. We are just returning from a successful conference in Bilbao, Spain. We thank the outgoing Scottish Secretariat under the wonderful leadership of Kasey McCall-Smith and Elaine Webster. We are grateful for all of their time and energy over more than six years as the AHRI Secretariat. The Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, South Africa, will host the AHRI Secretariat for the next three years. At the General Assembly in Bilbao, Frans Viljoen was elected as the new Chair and  Magnus Killander as the new Executive Secretary. Prof Felipe Gomez, the wonderful host of the 2023 conference in Bilbao, was elected as the new Vice-Chair.

- AHRI Secretariat 

The AHRI Conference hosted by the Pedro Aruppe Human Rights Institute, at the University of Deusto was a great success. Thank you all who made such significant contributions. Follow the link below to see some photos and a video from the conference.

On the last day of the conference the AHRI General Assembly adopted the Bilbao Declaration on Human Rights Defenders which is available on the AHRI website in English, Spanish and French. Other language versions will be added in due course. 

Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, Norway

World Heritage and Human Rights

News

The Nordic Journal of Human Rights has published a new issue 41(1), a special issue on World Heritage and Human Rights. It was co-guest-edited by Stener Ekern and Peter Bille Larsen. 

The issue includes an editorial, 6 scientific articles and 3 book reviews covering a wide array of case studies and discusses the intersection between human rights-based approaches in world heritage and conservation. 

Find the issue using the link below. 

• Call: Human Rights and Journalism Short Course, University of Essex, UK
• Call: Padova Model UPR Secretariat team for 2023, University of Padova, Italy
• Call: Conceptualising Vulnerability in a Time of Human Rights Regression, University of Padova, Italy 

University of Essex, United Kingdom

Call for Applications

Deadline: 9 October, 2023

Human Rights Leadership Lab 

The Human Rights Leadership Lab is a practical professional development course, tailored to the needs of leaders and managers doing social justice work. The Lab is a supportive and reflective learning space to develop your leadership presence, skills and impact. 

The Human Rights Leadership Lab commences with an examination of it's core philosophy - a human rights values-based approach to leadership. We then turn to examine human rights organisational culture, different leadership styles and competencies and how to motivate and inspire people using an empowering coaching approach. The final part of the Human Rights Leadership Lab focuses on how to build healthier and more sustainable working environments and prevent, mitigate and respond to stress, burn out and vicarious trauma through self-leadership and collective care strategies. 

You will acquire new leadership strategies, skills and tools and be empowered to lead more mindfully and do more impactful human rights work.

The course will be delivered in an online live, interactive format, split over three weeks (2 four-hour sessions per week).

Follow the link below to register.

Human Rights Centre " Antonio Papisca", University of Padova, Italy 

Call for Papers

Deadline 30 September, 2023

Conceptualising vulnerability in a time of human rights regression

In the context of the 2023 University of Padova Human Rights Conference on "Conceptualising vulnerability in a time of human rights regression", the Human Rights Centre of Padova, together with the UNESCO Chair "Human Rights, Democracy and Peace" and a wealth of international partner has launched a call for papers to human rights scholars, researchers as well as Ph.D candidates. 
All information about the call and the Conference are available using the link below.

PhD course: Human rights research methods, Danish Institute for Human Rights, Copenhagen, Denmark, 15-17 November 2023 (application deadline 29 September)

Frames of European Human Rights - How are climate change, migration, and authoritarianism framed within the Council of Europe?, The Hertie School, Berlin, Germany, 16-17 November 2023

Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, Univeristy of Geneva, Switzerland

The Geneva Human Rights Platform (GHRP) Training Hub

The Geneva Human Rights Platform (GHRP) Training Hub, a project of the Geneva Academy, organizes training courses – in Geneva and online – on the work of United Nations (UN) human rights mechanisms and on specific human rights issues like the protection of human rights and the environment or human rights and the Sustainable Development Goals. It also provides customized training courses for international organizations, NGOs, governments, or National Human Rights Institutions.

Relying on our wide network of international experts and practitioners, both formulas provide participants with practical knowledge and insight into the functioning of UN human rights mechanisms.

Upcoming training course:

The Universal Periodic Review and the UN Human Rights System: Raising the Bar on Accountability – 13-17 November 2023

This training course will explore the origin and evolution of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) and its functioning in Geneva and will focus on the nature of implementation of the UPR recommendations at the national level.