human rights

Professor Kathryn Sikkink (Harvard University) received an honorary doctorate from FAU on June 6th for her outstanding research on human rights. To mark this occasion, a festive award ceremony took place with guests from the university and beyond. The Institute of Political Science, in association w...

Dr Lars Pelke presented the Academic Freedom Index on Thursday (May, 4, 2023) in a scientific talk at the European National Young Academies (ENYA) meeting 2023 in Stockholm. At the ENYA meeting, members of the National Young Academies discussed issues around academic freedom.

Prof. Dr. Katrin Kinzelbach participated in the conference Academic Freedom under Pressure? held at Akademie für Politische Bildung Tutzing (Academy for Political Education Tutzing) from 2-3 May 2023. She spoke about the idea and dilemmas of “militant academia” in the context of declining academic f...

During a beautiful ceremony at the Nuremberg Centre for Human Rights, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Heiner Bielefeldt was on the occasion of his 65th birthday presented with a commemorative volume entitled "Die Freiheit der Menschenrechte" (The Freedom of Human Rights). In addition to 20 academic contributions...

Prof. Dr. Katrin Kinzelbach and Dr. Lars Pelke presented the Academic Freedom Index to parliamentarians in the Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment on Tuesday (March 28, 2023) and discussed the findings of the Update 2023 . The speakers focused their presentation on global deve...

In summer 2022, the Human Rights Subcommittee decided to prepare a Recommendation to the EU Council, the Commission and the HRVP (Josep Borrell) on how to respond more effectively to undemocratic elections in autocracies. To support the rapporteur (MEP Nacho Sánchez Amor), the Human Rights Subcommit...

Do you have an open mind for human rights? Our M.A. Human Rights is an interdisciplinary and international postgraduate degree programme cherished by students from all over the world. We have so far had the pleasure of teaching students from 56 countries, spanning all continents. The programme addre...

Interested in studying human rights? Look no further! We run an international, interdisciplinary MA programme covering human rights in their legal, political and philosophical dimensions. See our call for applications and visit our website to find out more about the programme, and meet our teachers ...

The monograph "Free and fair elections?" (2021) by Prof. Dr. Michael Krennerich has now also been published in English: "Free and fair elections? Standards, Curiosities, Manipulations“. At the same time, the study "Wahlrecht von wohnlosen Menschen" ("Voting Rights of Homeless People", available in G...

FAU launches an interdisciplinary and practice-oriented teaching format: the Human Rights Clinic. The first batch of students can now apply to start their clinical education in the winter term 2021/22. In addition to traditional lectures, students will participate in skills-oriented workshops, and c...