Tag: Human Rights

The book “Human Rights Politics. An introduction” by Michael Krennerich has just been published - also available as Open Access. It provides an introduction to the diversity of topics, actors and institutions in human rights politics and shows how political science and related disciplines can cont...

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 60 countries, spanning all continents. The programme addre...

Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) is looking for up to three postdoctoral researchers who will further strengthen human rights related research and teaching at FAU's Center for Human Rights Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU CHREN)  The expected starting date is March 1, 2024 or later. Succ...

The datafication of the world and the increasing availability of (geo)data opens up new opportunities for monitoring and documenting human rights violations, particularly in locations that are difficult to access due to security concerns. These advances raise technical and methodological challenges ...

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...

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...