Implementation conference

As part of the UTFORSK project “Fostering research-based education through academic mobility and measuring the domestic impact of core human rights treaties”, the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, University of Oslo, and the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, are organizing a closing international conference to be held in Oslo, Norway, on 14 and 15 April 2025.

The organisers invite scholars, legal practitioners, policymakers, and students to submit their abstracts for our international conference on the topic “The Domestic Impact of Global and Regional Human Rights Law.” The conference aims to explore the multifaceted ways in which international human rights norms, at the global and regional level, are integrated, enforced, and reshaped within domestic legal systems across the globe.
Please submit your abstract online before 15 December 2024.
For more information, visit: https://www.jus.uio.no/smr/english/research/projects/diku_utforsk_pretoria/news/call-for-papers-the-domestic-impact-of-global-and-.html

Older persons in crises conference

The Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights, Finland, is co-organizing the Older Persons in Crises: Rights and Challenges Conference 20-22 March 2025. 

The “Older Persons and Crises” Conference will focus on the needs of older individuals in global crises. The conference, organized by the University of Helsinki, will feature keynote speakers and working groups on wars, climate change, the International Convention on the Rights of Older Persons, and older persons as refugees. Abstracts for presentations are due by 1 February 2025.

For more information and regular updates, kindly visit the Conference website.

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.

Further information on the categories and guidelines for authors can be found on our website at www.menschenrechtsmagazin.de  

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact them at redaktion-mrm@uni-potsdam.de.

Implementation of clean environment resolution

On 11 December the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights will host a hybrid seminar on 'The Implementation of UN General Assembly Resolution 76/300 Recognizing the Right to a Clean, Healthy, and Sustainable Environment'. The discussion will specifically address the legal status of the resolution, the opportunities it presents for advancing environmental protection, its influence on legal reforms, policy frameworks, jurisprudence, and international collaboration, as well as its role in combating the triple planetary crisis.

Associate Professor of Human Rights

Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, Oslo, Norway

Closing date: 2 December 2024

Human Rights Researcher & Project Manager

Ludwig Boltzmann Institute, Vienna, Austria

Closing date: 6 January 2025

Two new books have recently been published in the AHRI series published by Edward Elgar Publishing. Check out Human Rights Strategies - Benefits and Drawbacks and Socio-economic Rights, Inequalities and Vulnerability in Times of Crises - Building Back Better. The two books will be discussed at a hybrid seminar/book launch organised by the Maastricht Centre for Human Rights on 29 January 2025.

Also check out these recent open access books published by researchers based at AHRI institutes:

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