463 search results for “international human rights” in the Staff website
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Vincent Delhomme
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Kutsal Yesilkagit
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Bryan Verheul
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Freedom: what does it mean?
On 5 May we celebrate freedom, a basic human right that should not be taken for granted. We asked international students and staff what it means to them.
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Olga Lundysheva
Faculty of Humanities
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Masja van Meeteren
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Harold Kelly
Faculteit Archeologie
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Yuanyuan Mao
Science
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Shekhar Kolipaka
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Anne van Dam
Faculty of Humanities
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Roy Remme
Science
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Jiang Wu
Faculty of Humanities
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Carmen van den Bergh
Faculty of Humanities
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Tessa de Boer
Faculty of Humanities
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Alexander van Oudenhoven
Science
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Eduard Fosch Villaronga
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Child rights activist Graça Machel speaks in Leiden on justice between generations
Mozambican politician and child rights activist Graça Machel speaks October 27 at Leiden University about her work.
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Asmaa Khadim
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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‘Islam is a constant in Europe’: new Humanities podcast delves into the history of Islam
‘Islam and Muslims are not something that happened to Europe; they are part of Europe. In fact, Islam is one the biggest constants in European history,’ argues Professor Maurits Berger in the new eight-part History of Islam in Europe podcast series of the Leiden University Faculty of Humanities.
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Educational innovation at Humanities: 'Students are great initiators’
In the academic year 2018 - 2019, the Faculty of Humanities established the Educational Innovation Programme. In this way, the faculty wants to realise the ambitions from the educational vision of Leiden University in education. How is the programme currently doing? We talked to project manager Sanne…
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Bert Botma
Faculty of Humanities
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Amy Verdun
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Anchrit Wille
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Alp Yenen
Faculty of Humanities
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Christina Luise Toenshoff
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Gert-Jan Boon
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Andrew Gawthorpe on ABC Radio about ‘Orbánism’ and the American right
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán addressed the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Texas last week. University lecturer Andrew Gawthorpe explains in an interview with ABC Radio what the embrace of 'Orbánism' means for the American right, and democracy more broadly.
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Update 21 February: response to freedom of information request by The Rights Forum
Organisation
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Intergenerational Justice and Human Rights in a time of Planetary Crises in Africa
Conference
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Isabelle Duyvesteyn, new programme chair of International Studies: ‘I want to do things that will benefit students’
Professor Isabelle Duyvesteyn will be the new programme chair of International Studies. As of 1 September, she will be at the helm of the largest programme of the Faculty of Humanities.
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Hosna Sheikhattar
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Register now: the International Experience Week
Education
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Minister Dijkgraaf visits OWL international introduction week
On Monday, Minister of Education, Culture and Science Robbert Dijkgraaf attended the start of Orientation Week Leiden (OWL), the introduction week for international students at Leiden University. He welcomed the students and spoke with them about their ambitions and the problems they face.
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Faculty of Humanities ushers in the new year: 'Build in some low-pressure time'
In a world beset with war, climate problems and skyrocketing energy prices, it is good to have some 'slack time' now and then. That was Dean Mark Rutgers' message at the Faculty of Humanities' New Year reception.
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Gerrit Dusseldorp
Faculteit Archeologie
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Elena Burgos Martinez
Faculty of Humanities
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Laura Steenbergen
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Marian Klamer
Faculty of Humanities
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No new election student section Humanities Faculty Council – seat allocation adopted
Organisation
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Committee in favour of structural investment in the Social Sciences and Humanities
Finance, Organisation
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Academics call for more powers for international organisations
Organisations like the UN and the EU should be given more powers to combat transboundary problems. This is the message of a report published by the Swedish SNS Democracy Council, whose authors include Prof. Jan Aart Scholte of Leiden University. The researchers also wrote the following article.
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Raymond Fagel
Faculty of Humanities
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Francesco Ragazzi
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Müge Kinacioglu
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Vincent Chang
Faculty of Humanities
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Seda Gürkan
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Matthew Frear
Faculty of Humanities
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Noa Schonmann
Faculty of Humanities
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‘Legal AI is a bit of a Wild West right now’
A growing number of AI tools are being developed for the legal sector, to help professionals search lengthy texts or check court rulings. Leiden SAILS researcher Masha Medvedeva, an expert on the technical development of these systems, warns: ‘Users should know what’s under the hood.’
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Research and current affairs: 2022 in six stories
Life returned to something resembling normal after Covid but other crises soon took its place. These great challenges are also being felt at the University and our researchers are working on solutions. The nitrogen crisis, problems with young people’s services and an increasingly urgent climate crisis:…