On 2-3 September 2016, the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM) hosts the 2016 Association of Human Rights Institutes Conference. The conference is entitled “50 Years of the Two UN Human Rights Covenants: Legacies and Prospects” and will be attended by many human rights scholars from around the world. There will be nearly 100 speakers, a number of them SIM researchers, presenting on six major themes:
(i) the indivisibility and interactions of norms and regimes;
(ii) citizenship, migrants and refugees;
(iii) non-state actors and human rights;
(iv) the EU and human rights;
(v) the global economy and human rights; and
(vi) new avenues in human rights research.The United Nations High Commissioner of Human Rights, Zeid Ra’adAl Hussein, will close the conference by giving the 2016 SIM Peter Baehr lecture.
Hans Thoolen on Human Rights Defenders and their awards 
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