False modesty should not prevent one from announcing a truly excellent piece written by Janneke Allers. She is the winer of the bi-annual Thoolen NJCM Dissertation Prize 2015 (sixth edition) with her dissertation ‘Cuts in the light of fundamental social rights. To what extent do treaties constrain the space for regressive measures?’
Three dissertations made the final cut and were assessed on the following criteria: the originality of the chosen human-rights based theme, the development thereof; the academic level; the degree of innovative insight; and accessibility.
The results were: Read the rest of this entry »
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Dissertation on social rights and austerity wins Thoolen-NJCM award 2015
March 3, 2016Posted in awards | 1 Comment »
Tags: dissertation, Hans Thoolen, human rights award, Janneke Allers, legal restrictions, NJCM, social rights, Thoolen NJCM prijs, Truth and Reconciliation Commission, university level education
Animated Introduction to Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (and NGOs) now out
November 23, 2012This is the second part of the series “Focus Human Rights” that I referred to in an earlier post. It deals with the second dimension of the Human Rights system: The Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Additionally, it explains women’s rights and shows how NGOs in the Human Rights sector work. Especially the latter part seems somewhat forced into this second volume as they operate in both areas to say the least. It has also a rather strange reference to the International Society for Human Rights which is listed with AI, HRW and HRF as an example of well-known NGOs, while it is in fact fairly small and – outside Germany – without much influence.
The clips are done by Jan Künzl and Jörn Barkemeyer, who welcome comments.
More information about the project:
http://www.edeos.org/en/projects.html
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Hans Thoolen on Human Rights Defenders and their awards 