Human Rights

Human Rights is a topic that is constantly on the agenda. We keep hoping things will change for the better, but atrocities are daily news. Uprisings and big political changes can lead to better human rights conditions, but also to war and crimes against humanity. This series of lectures will explore the significance of human rights in a globalising world. The lectures will demonstrate how human rights are increasingly becoming an instrument with which to challenge the negative side effects of globalisation.

The individual lectures
1. Introduction to International Human Rights (Coomans / 11 Sep)
2. Women’s Rights (Sellin / 18 Sep)
3. Bystanders to Gross Human Rights Violations (Broderick / 25 Sep)
4. Disability Rights  (Moerland / 2 Oct)
5. European Convention on Human Rights (Imamović / 9 Oct)

About the speakers

• Prof. Fons Coomans
  Professor Emeritus International Law, UM
• Jennifer Sellin, PhD
  Assistant Professor of International & European Law, UM
• Roland Moerland, PhD
  Assistant Professor of Criminology and Law, Director Master Forensics Criminology and Law and Co-director Maastricht Centre for Human Rights, UM
• Prof. Andrea Broderick
  Professor of International and European and Co-director of the Maastricht Centre for Human Rights, UM
• Šejla Imamović, PhD 
  Assistant Professor of European Human Rights Law, UM