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Dear colleagues,
Welcome to October's AHRI Newsletter. Like us, many of you will be in the midst of teaching the next generation of human rights academics! But please have a look at the news and calls below, and see the info on our featured institute this month.
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This month our featured institute is the UNESCO Chair in Human Rights, University of Luxembourg. |
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- AHRI adopted the Maastricht Declaration on the Human Rights Backsliding in Poland during the #AHRI2021 Assembly Meeting. The Declaration is also available in Polish, French, German, Italian, Chinese and Spanish. Many thanks to colleagues who provided translations. Read the declaration here.
- The 2023 AHRI Conference will be hosted by Pedro Arrupe Human Rights Institute, University of Deusto, Spain. More information to follow.
- Applications: The deadline for new member institute applications is May 31, 2022. Find out more here
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UNESCO Chair in Human Rights, University of Luxembourg |
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Professor Robert Harmsen speaking at the gala public ceremony in 2019, in the presence of Grand Duke Henri. |
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The UNESCO Chair in Human Rights at the University of Luxembourg was established in 2011 by Professor Jean-Paul Lehners. Since 2019, Professor Robert Harmsen has assumed responsibility for the Chair, with the hand-over having been marked by a gala public ceremony in the presence of Grand Duke Henri. The Chair’s activities have inevitably been mostly online over the past eighteen months, including two (virtually) well-attended webinars: on ‘Islam and Human Rights’ in March 2021 (co-organised with the University of Tübingen and the Luxembourg School of Religion and Society) and on ‘Systemic Racism in Comparative Perspective’ in April 2021. We are hoping to return to mostly in-person (and hybrid) activities over the coming year, including a major conference focused on ‘Challenges to the Rule of Law in Europe’ in the spring of 2022. |
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The ‘official party’ (around the Grand Duke) at the re-inauguration. |
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FRA (European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights)
Selected recent publications:
Selected upcoming publications:
- Report regarding Directive (EU) 2017/541 on combating terrorism – Impact on fundamental rights and freedom
- Forced return monitoring systems - Update 2021
- Free legal aid in return procedures for persons deprived of liberty
- Antisemitism - Overview of antisemitic incidents recorded in the EU 2010-2020
Selected recent events:
- At the end of the Fundamental Rights Forum 2021 the FRA Director concluded on 5 “shout outs”, namely to wake up, join up, wise up, catch up and listen up. The Forum took place on 11 and 12 October. Registration of panels will be made accessible in due course.
Selected upcoming events:
- 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.
Other information of interest:
· Check FRA publications here.
· Check FRA news here.
· Subscribe the FRA newsletter here.
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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, https://globalreports.columbia.edu/books/freedomville/
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
Dr Sunita Toor wins an Asian Women of Achievement Award
Dr Madhumita Pandey, Lecturer in Criminology, was invited to be a part of UN Women, USA's fundraising event. The event "India's Covid Widows: A New Humanitarian Crisis" focused on fundraising on behalf of UN Women for India’s women and girls deeply impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as highlighted the voices of India's Covid Widows.
Refugee Rights Hub new website: Reuniting Refugee Families
Based at the Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice, the Refugee Rights Hub offers free legal advice and practical help for refugees who want to be reunited with their families. Find out more about the services of the Refugee Rights Hub by checking the new website. Refugee Rights Hub - Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice, https://refugeerightshub.shu.ac.uk/
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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.
Chapters include:
1. The Role of State Actors Within the National Human Rights System, by Stéphanie Lagoutte
2. Parliaments as Human Rights Actors: The Potential for International Principles on Parliamentary Human Rights Committees, by Kirsten Roberts Lyer
3. Business and Human Rights: From Domestic Institutionalisation to Transnational Governance and Back Again, by Claire Methven O’Brien and Jolyon Ford
4. A Model for National Human Rights Systems? New Governance and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, by Sébastien Lorion
5. NHRI Engagement with UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies: A Goal-based Approach, by Domenico Zipoli
6. Establishing an NHRI in a Contested Political Space: A Deliberative Process in Israel, by Tomer Broude and Natan Milikowsky
The book is based on a Special Issue of the Nordic Journal of Human Rights. The introduction is available in open access here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/18918131.2019.1682235 |
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AHRI Members' events and calls |
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- Event: Sussex Centre for Human Rights Research, " Autumn Seminar Series"
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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.
1-2pm 1st December GMT, Elizabeth Craig, Sussex Law School,
‘Looking Beyond Internalisation: European Minority Rights in Question’ (Hybrid Event)
December: SOGICA Book Launch date and time tbc. |
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Reminders: AHRI Members' events and calls |
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- Call for Applications: Human Rights Research and Education Centre, Canada, IMAGES of JUSTICE: The Right to Housing!
- Conference: Human Rights Centre " Antonio Papisca" , University of Padova, Italy, International Research Conference
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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
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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.
Click Here for More Information |
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