1,994 search results for “women s rights” in the Public website
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Music production and its role in coalition signaling during foraging contexts in a hunter-gatherer society
For the first time, a group of international and interdisciplinary researchers led by Karline Janmaat and her former MSc Student Chirag Chittar, have tested the several hypotheses on music simultaneously in a modern foraging society during their daily search for tubers – their staple food. They found…
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European Prehistory
Our research deals with the deep history of Europe and Eurasia, from the inception of farming up until the beginning of the Roman Period. This was a period in which key developments took place that had a profound impact on European landscapes and society until the present day. Our research and teaching…
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About WIIS-NL
WIIS-Netherlands (WIIS-NL) is an affiliate of WIIS Global. WIIS-NL subscribers include: professionals, civil servants, academics, NGOs, employees of international bodies and organizations, embassy staff, politicians, students, and interested members of the general public. The Chapter’s base is Leiden…
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Ana Achúcarro Group - The Early Universe
We explore the particle physics and quantum world at the time of the big bang.
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Rodrigues appointed deputy member at Netherlands Institute for Human Rights
Peter Rodrigues, Professor of Immigration Law, has been appointed as a deputy member of the Netherlands Institute for Human Rights for a period of eighteen months.
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The Role of Law in Libya’s National Reconciliation
The Role of Law in Libya’s National Reconciliation (RoLLNaR) was a research project that ran from 2017 to 2020. It identified and assessed the role of law – both actual and potential, enabling and constraining – with regard to major challenges of reconciliation in Libya. The project was led by Dr. Suliman…
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Secretary of Chile’s Constitutional Court gives lecture at Leiden Law School
On 27 February, Rodrigo Pica, Secretary of Chile’s Constitutional Court, gave a lecture to the students of the Advanced Master’s in European and International Human Rights Law at Leiden Law School.
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Improving care for red blood cell alloimmunized pregnant women
PhD defence
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Flying start for Athena’s Angels website
On the new website Athena’s Angels, four female Leiden professors address the unequal treatment of women in academia. ‘Since we launched the website, our mailboxes have exploded,’ says Judi Mesman, Professor of Child and Family Studies and one of the initiators.
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Do breakaway groups in the Dutch House of Representatives have the right to vote?
In Dutch newspaper NRC, Pieter Omtzigt says he finds it 'unconstitutional' that he has no right to vote in committee meetings. Omtzigt believes he is as much a Member of Parliament as other MPs. However, since 2017, a breakaway group is no longer entitled to a proportional share of staff support and…
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Evaluation of the Law Ombudsperson for Children
To what extent does the Law Ombudsperson for Children achieve its goals as intended by the legislator when introducing the law?
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temporary asylum stop is in breach of European Convention on Human Rights
In the Netherlands, various local VVD parties are calling for an asylum stop. Other political parties, Ja21, BBB, PVV and FvD, also see an asylum stop as the solution to the continuing asylum problems. Earlier, an opinion poll showed that a majority (69 per cent) of the Dutch population agrees. Is an…
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virtual roundtable on the Social Summit and the European Pillar of Social Rights
Organised jointly by the Europa Institute, Leiden University and the Lisbon Centre for Research in Public Law, University of Lisbon on 31 May 2021.
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Climate Change Response in Weak Rule-of-Law Environments
This socio-legal study focuses on the implementation of climate change response laws and policies in developing countries with a weak rule-of-law environment, and their (unforeseen) effects on vulnerable peoples’ land rights.
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Marriage Law and Practice in Indonesia
This project looks at the current practices of marriage law in Indonesia. It examines the often ambiguous views different groups hold of marriage, from local villagers in Bengkulu to women’s activists in Jakarta, and how these relate to the development of national law on the one hand and local practices…
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Remembering Dissent and Disillusion in the Arab World
This project investigates generational dialogues about the legacies and memories of labour, student and communist movements in the Arab world. The research focuses in particular on video and installation art by young makers born in the 1980s that address the generation of their parents and the events…
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Health and disease
Bone research provides plenty of detailed data about the health of a person or a group. This data is not only used to reconstruct the past but also to fight disease today.
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The EU’s Response to Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: International and European Perspectives
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the European Union (EU) and its Member States have adopted wide-ranging legal and political measures to support Ukraine in its struggle.
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What's China's comment?
On the 25th of February, Peng Wu successfully defended his doctoral thesis and graduated. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Peng on this achievement.
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Anne Meuwese on EU's impending AI regulation
This regulation – also known as the AI Act – aims to ensure that AI systems sold and used in the EU are safe and consistent with existing fundamental rights legislation and Union values. AI harvests its factual material on the Internet, but in some cases it can be misleading. This is sufficient reason…
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How do you determine the right medicine dosage for a child?
What’s the right dosage of medication for children? Assistant professor Elke Krekels and her colleagues discovered that for some medicines, you can determine this quite simply. On 13 April Krekels received the TOP-Publication award during the annual spring meeting of the Dutch Society for Clinical Pharmacology…
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Same-sex couples in Europe: more rights in more countries
The trend of legal recognition for gay and lesbian couples is broadening. More and more rights are becoming available to same-sex partners – in more and more European countries. Leiden Law School and the French Institute for Demographic Studies publish detailed database and comparative analysis.
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Larissa van den Herik
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Hoko Horii
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Citizenship: consequences for democratisation
Many Asian countries are in a process of democratisation. The expectation was that citizens would gradually gain more control over the functioning of their elites. Experts from Leiden have concluded that this process often fails to improve the quality of the administration. They researched the nature…
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Gender in ethnically mixed relationships of immigrants from Dutch former colonies in the Netherlands, 1945-2005
Subproject of
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Rijpma at ICMPD Webinar “Protecting the Right to Protection in times of COVID-19”
On 22 June the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) organised a webinar on the challenges that have arisen for asylum seekers and refugees worldwide as a result of the COVID-19 crisis.
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President's Ponderings - March 2021
Welcome to the WIIS NL community! We are excited to be launching our newsletter in the week we celebrate International Women's Day.
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Team
The team of WIIS-Netherlands exists out of the board members and the advisory council.
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Melanie Fink appeared before the European Parliament’s Working Group on Frontex Scrutiny
On Thursday 29 April 2021, Melanie Fink appeared before the European Parliament’s Working Group on Frontex Scrutiny.
- Call for Papers: Digital Workshop on Localizing the Women Peace & Security Agenda Across Multiple Governance Challenges
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Towards a feminist playology: social sport studies and the limits of critique
The making of sacrifices seems part and parcel of any elite sportsperson’s life. Remarkably, the insights that we find in the current literature in social sport studies are not able to make sense of the references to sacrifice in the data that emerged in the context of this study on the social significance…
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Associations in the European Revolutions of 1848
The revolutionary organizations in Paris and Berlin around 1848.
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Different components of impulsivity in relation to emotional stress in patients with Borderline Personality Disorder and patients with Attention
How does stress affect different components of behavioral impulsivity and aggression in patients with Borderline Personality Disorder compared to clinical controls (patients with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) and healthy controls?
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on Global trends in Counter-terrorism and the Implications for Human Rights in Africa
On 8 March 2023 Helen Duffy, Professor of International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law in Leiden, published a monograph on Global Trends in Counter-terrorism and the Implications for Human Rights in Africa.
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Ton Liefaard speaks about 30 Years UN CRC, in Italy
Last week, to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, Prof. Dr. Ton Liefaard shone a fresh light on children’s rights, in Italy.
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Melanie Fink on Frontex’s Joint Operation in Albania and Access to Justice
On 8-9 October 2020, ACES and the T.M.C. Asser Instituut organised an interdisciplinary online conference ‘Migration deals and their damaging effects’ on the implications of the increasing use of informal (non-binding) instruments in the field of migration.
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New publication: The best interests of the child in EU family reunification law
Mark Klaassen and Peter Rodrigues have published a journal article on the role of the best interests of the child in EU family reunification law in the European Journal of Migration and Law. They conclude that even though the Court of Justice of the European Union has often referred to the best interests…
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Sweetie 2.0
Sweetie 2.0 is a research project commissioned by Terre des Hommes on online child sex tourism and criminal law.
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Centre for Art, Literature and Law (CALL)
The center studies the many ways in which issues of law and justice are dealt with in art and literature with a focus on liminal issues and cases. These are issues and cases where law comes to the limits of what it is capable of dealing with and art and literature explore the implications of what is…
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Melanie Fink speaks on human rights accountability in EU external border management at the Austrian Academy of Sciences
On 4 March 2016, Melanie Fink presented her PhD research on legal accountability for human rights violations occurring during Frontex-coordinated joint border control operations at a workshop for recipients of the DOC scholarship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
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Conversations of Motherhood
The subject of motherhood is interwoven with themes of survival, power and identity. It is also at the heart of any consideration of women’s writing. Conversations of Motherhood sensitively charts common themes, intersecting experiences and related topics within the cultural specificities of South African…
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Japanese Studies
LIAS aims to advance the globally conscious vision of area studies, both within and outside the academic community. Focusing on Asia and the Middle East, the institute is a meeting place of multiple fields of inquiry, theories and methods, historical periods, and areas.
- Visualizing Cryptographic Networks of Spies, Diplomats and Scientists, 1603-1701
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Global Challenges
Global Challenges is the research programme of the Leiden Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology.
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The European Union and the United Nations in Global Governance
Madeleine O. Hosli, Professor of International Relations, wrote this book in which she analyses the complex relations between the European Union (EU) as a regional organization and the United Nations (UN) as an international, global governance institution.
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Gendered empire. Intersectional perspectives on Dutch post/colonial narratives
Yearbook of Women's History.
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Voices on Birchbark: Everyday Communication in Medieval Russia
In Voices on Birchbark Jos Schaeken explores the major role that writing on birchbark – an ephemeral, even ‘throw-away’ form of correspondence and administration – played in the vibrant medieval merchant city of Novgorod and other cities in the Russian Northwest.