Human Rights Lecture Series
Topic: Science as a human right: why, what and for whom? by Prof. Yvonne Donders (UvA)
Prof. Dr. Yvonne Donders is Professor International Human Rights and Cultural Diversity and Head of the Department of International and European Public Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Amsterdam. She has graduated from Utrecht University in international relations and has done her PhD at the Law Faculty of Maastricht University on cultural human rights and the right to cultural identity. Her research interests include public international law; international human rights law, in particular economic, social and cultural rights and human rights and cultural diversity. She teaches courses on international law and international human rights law and gives lectures on cultural rights and cultural diversity.
From 2008 to 2015 Yvonne Donders was the Director of the Amsterdam Center for International Law (ACIL). She has also worked as project manager (1 day per week detachment) at the National Human Rights Institute of the Netherlands (College voor de Rechten van de Mens), assisting the transformation from Equal Treatment Commission to NHRI (March 2011-October 2012). Previously Yvonne Donders worked as Programme Specialist on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in the Division of Human Rights and Struggle against Discrimination of UNESCO's Secretariat in Paris.
VENUE
Faculty of Law
Bouillonstraat 1-3, Maastricht
Room: Statenzaal
Timing: 14.00hrs
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