human rights

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...

Betty Kaari Murungi is a lawyer with almost 30 years of experience on a national, regional and international level, and for over 10 years she has been gathering experiences in the field of management and governance of NGOs. After her law studies and a year of research at the human rights program in ...

On 13 June 2017 at 18:15 Prof. Dr. Wouter Vandenhole (UNICEF Chair in Children's Rights, University of Antwerp) will speak.   For detailed information see Programme "Children's Rights: A Threat to Family Values?" (PDF).

On 31 May 2017 at 18:00 Morten Kjaerum (Director, Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law) will speak. Morten Kjaerum has been Director of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law in Sweden since 2015. Prior to that, he was the fi rst Director of...