New Shelter City human rights defender in Maastricht
Since September the Faculty of Law will host a new human rights defender within the framework of the Shelter City Project Maastricht. His name is Yamen from Palestine (Gaza Strip). He works for the Al Mezan Human Rights Centre in Gaza. His work entails documenting breaches of international humanitarian law and international human rights law which take place in the area.
Shelter City Maastricht is a collaborative project in which the University, the Municipality, Amnesty International and Mondiaal Maastricht participate; see sheltercity.nl
Also read
-
Three researchers from Maastricht University (UM) will receive a prestigious ERC Starting Grant from the European Research Council. They will receive €1.5 million each. Their funding is part of the EU Horizon Europe programme.
-
The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded Lilian Tsourdi, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, a prestigious ERC Starting Grant for her project SoftEn (Soft Enforcement of EU Migration Law).
-
‘Am AI Right?’, a research project created by an interdisciplinary team of researchers of the Law and Tech Lab and the Brightlands Institute for Smart Society (BISS), aims to revolutionize access to legal expertise.
