LECTURE SERIES

HUMAN RIGHTS

THU 11, 18, 25 SEPT, AND 2 AND 9 OCT – 19:30 TO 21:30
Karl Dittrich Hall, Student Services Centre, Bonnefantenstraat 2

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

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 / 11 Sep)
2. Women’s Rights (Sellin / 18 Sep)
3. Disability Rights  (Broderick / 25 Sep)
4. Bystanders to Gross Human Rights Violations (Moerland / 2 Oct)
5. European Convention on Human Rights (Imamović / 9 Oct)

Cost of the whole series
UM students €10
UM employees and students from other schools €25
Others €50