1,016 search results for “international human rights” in the Student website
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Rob de Wijk
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Jimena Pacheco Miranda
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Pim Rank
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Marinko Bobic
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Roos van der Haer
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Ekaterina Pannebakker
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Valentin Vandendaele
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Alexandre Afonso
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Matthias Haentjens
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Sarah Wolff
Faculty of Humanities
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Diego Salama
Faculty of Humanities
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International Bachelor in Psychology Introduction Day
Study information
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Leiden students advise the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
On Wednesday 18 May, the students of the LL.M. Advanced Studies in International Children’s Rights presented their work to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child with the aim to provide recommendations on how to make its decision more accessible to children.
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Daniëlla Dam-de Jong
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Carsten Stahn
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Christian Henderson
Faculty of Humanities
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Hoko Horii
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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to hold 2022/2023 Rotating Honorary Chair 'Enforcement of Children’s Rights' at Leiden University
Leiden Law School is pleased to announce that Professor Ursula Kilkelly, School of Law, University College Cork, Ireland, will visit Leiden in academic year 2022/2023 as Rotating Honorary Chair ‘Enforcement of Children’s Rights’.
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Dr Graça Machel in Leiden: human rights, the crucial role of academia and the importance of intergenerational dialogue
Almost three years after receiving her honorary doctorate, Dr Graça Machel returned to Leiden University. Over the course of two days she spoke with students, researchers, and other interested persons, about human rights – particularly those of women and children – in a world in which these are continually…
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UN Special Rapporteur visits Leiden: ‘Suspend the supply of arms to the warring parties’
Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur for human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, visited Leiden Law School on 8 December within the scope of International Human Rights Day.
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dedicated herself with heart and soul to Indonesian workers' and human rights
Ratna Saptari is since 2007 Assistant Professor at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology. She has always been involved with issues of human rights and Indonesian workers' rights. This August she retired. But she won't sit still. She continues her voluntary work and wants to…
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#COVID under19: Children’s rights during the coronavirus pandemic
Children and young people feel the government is not listening to them during the coronavirus pandemic and this is a cause for concern in light of international children’s rights. This is the conclusion of a recent report by a research team from Leiden University on how children and youngsters have…
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Professor Ann Skelton appointed as Children’s Rights Chair at Leiden University
Leiden University’s Executive Board has appointed South African Professor Ann Skelton as the new Chair of Children’s Rights in a Sustainable World as of 1 October 2022.
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Social and Economic Human Rights, The United Nations and the Intimacies of International Law: A History
Lecture, INVISIHIST event
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New super server at humanities
When you think of humanities, you may not immediately think of a new super server. Yet one has just been commissioned. University lecturer Jelena Prokic from Leiden University Centre for Digital Humanities explains more about this development.
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Adam Fairclough
Faculty of Humanities
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BACK ON TRACK - training for international students
Study support
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Helen Duffy about Abu Zubaydah who remains unlawfully detained in Guantánamo Bay
In two moving articles, Dutch newspaper Trouw has reported on the lengthy detention of Abu Zubaydah in Guantánamo Bay. Zubaydah was tortured over a period of many years. Helen Duffy, Professor of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, and also Zubaydah’s lawyer, recently booked a major victory…
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Ann Skelton in Aljazeera on child rights in Syria Camps
The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) has accused Finland of violating the rights of Finnish children by leaving them in life-threatening conditions in Syrian camps. Ann Skelton, member of the committee, calls the situation 'inhuman'.
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Lecture: International Cooperation Against All Odds: The Ultrasocial World
Lecture
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Advocating for Human rights in Brussels: catching up with Calum Thomson
Many students see themselves working at an NGO in Brussels after graduation. Alumnus Calum Thomson (26) is doing just that. In 2021 Calum started working at the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum (EaP CSF): a platform aimed at promoting European integration, facilitating reforms and democratic…
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Child rights expert sounds the alarm: ‘Global crises are hitting children hardest’
Wars, climate change and the effects of covid have caused a global decline in children’s well-being. In her inaugural lecture Ann Skelton, Professor of Children’s Rights in a Sustainable World, points to the disastrous effects of multiple interacting crises.
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International studies and Urban Studies have moved to Schouwburgstraat
The International Studies and Urban studies study programmes have moved to a new address. After five years in the Wijnhaven building they have moved to the Schouwburgstraat. ‘It is nice to have our own place in The Hague as the Faculty of Humanities.’
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International exchange coordinators
International exchange coordinators can provide you with information and advice if you are interested in going abroad as part of your study programme.
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Scholarships for international internships
There are a number of scholarships available for research and internships abroad.
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International Peace and Justice Master Fund – Law and Society Scholarship
Master
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Lenneke Alink
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Nina van Capelleveen
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Nadia Sonneveld
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Rehana Dole
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Li-Ru Hsu
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Ruben van Uden
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Hans-Martien ten Napel
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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New milestone for the Humanities Campus
The development of the Humanities Campus is entering a new phase. On 13 June, the Municipal Council approved both the zoning plan and the visual quality plan. This means that the university can now go forward with developing the new construction and the central green square on the Doelen side of the…
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‘Children’s healthcare rights deserve more attention’
‘Children’s rights are somewhat of a poor relation’, says Professor of Law and Health Mirjam Sombroek-van Doorm. In her inaugural lecture, she will emphasise how more attention needs to be paid to children’s rights in current thinking on law and health.
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Criminal Justice Public Lecture: Maarten Kunst on victim rights
On 1 June 2022, Maarten Kunst, Professor of Criminology at Leiden Law School, gave a lecture on his research into the effects of the right to be heard on both the defendant and the victim. Victims have certain rights in the Dutch criminal process, including the right to be heard in criminal proceedings.…
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Luka Narisha
Science
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Irini Sifogeorgakis
Faculteit Archeologie
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Imke Bruns
Science
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Jac Aarts
Faculteit Archeologie