Human Rights are on the agenda constantly. We keep hoping things change to the better, but atrocities are daily news. Uprisings and big political changes can lead to better human right 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 by which the negative sideeffects of globalisation may be challenge.

The individual lectures
1.   Introduction to International  Human Rights (Coomans / 17 Sept)
2.   Access to Medicine (Sellin / 24 Sept)
3.   Bystanders to Gross Human Rights Violations (Moerland / 1 Oct)
4.   Litigating Human Rights in Europe (Claes / 8 Oct)
5.   Human Rights of Girls and Women  and the Influence of Culture (Westendorp / 15 Oct)