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 / 9 Sep)
2. Women’s Rights (Sellin / 16 Sep)
3. European Convention on Human Rights (Imamović / 23 Sep)
4. Bystanders to Gross Human Rights Violations (Moerland / 30 Sep)
5. Disability Rights (Broderick / 7 Oct)

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