Judge Bertram Schmitt from the International Criminal Court will give a public lecture on human rights protection and prevention of atrocities through international criminal law. Judge Schmitt is following an invitation from the MA Human Rights and the International Criminal Law Research Unit of the... Continue

On 4 May 2018, 1.15–6pm, a symposium on Gender in Peacebuilding and Transitional Justice is organised in the Senatssaal of the Kollegienhaus, Universitätsstraße 15, in Erlangen. The symposium will consider issues of gender in peacebuilding and transitional justice practice and discourse from interdi... Continue

Students of this year's class have formed a human rights group called "Rights Effect". On Dec. 9th, to commemorate International Human Rights Day, they called attention to the victims of the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar by organizing a Silent Vigil at the Street of Human Rights in Nuremberg. A video a... Continue

The new round of students was welcomed to Erlangen on 16 October. The highlight of the first week was certainly the inspiring opening lecture given by Dr Navi Pillay who spoke about her experience in Apartheid and post-Apartheid South Africa as well as in the international human rights arena. The op... Continue

The People of Color student group, which was founded by students from the MA Human Rights, is organising a podium discussion on everyday racism in Germany as part of a course on non-discrimination. The event will take place on 15 November 2017, 5–8pm, in the Senatssaal (Kollegienhaus, Universitätsst... Continue