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21JUN 2018
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Working on Diversity
A group from the current batch of our MA Human Rights programme is organising a discussion on diversity in the workplace that will consider, among others, the meaning of diversity, the role of unconscious bias in job recruitment, and what can be done to address discrimination in the hiring process. The even will take place […]
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21JUN 2018
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Berlin Excursion 2018
14 students of this year’s class went on an excursion to Berlin for two days to meet professionals in the field of human rights work. Officials of Human Rights Watch, the German Anti-Discrimination Agency, the German Foreign Office and the German Institute for Human Rights as well as Bärbel Kofler, the Federal Commissioner for Human […]
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11MAY 2018
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Public lecture on human rights protection through ICL
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 FAU. In addition to first-hand insights into an interesting and […]
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19APR 2018
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Symposium on Gender in Peacebuilding and Transitional Justice
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 interdisciplinary, feminist, intersectional and postcolonial perspectives. Gina Heathcote (School of Oriental and African […]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 interdisciplinary, feminist, intersectional and postcolonial perspectives. Gina Heathcote (School of Oriental and African […]
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16JAN 2018
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Students organize Silent Vigil for Rohingya
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 and some pictures they posted […]
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24NOV 2017
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Opening of the academic year 2017/18
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 opening ceremony was videotaped and […]
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