1,067 search results for “rights of indigenous peoples” in the Public website
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Mixtec activist Gabina Aurora Pérez Jiménez Honoured
Mixtec researcher and cultural activist Gabina Aurora Pérez Jiménez (Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University) has been awarded a Medal of Merit during the World Conference of Indigenous Woman in Lima, Peru.
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2009 State visit to Mexico & Indigenous People
As part of the state visit to Mexico a theme lunch on indigenous cultures was organised.
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The perception of time in the Ñuu Dzaui landscape, Oaxaca, Mexico.
1) How natural cycles and activities are interconnected for building the time in one community? 2) What perceptions of Ñuu Dzaui peoples about their landscape can be connected with precolonial times?
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Corinne Hofman
Faculteit Archeologie
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Indigenous adornment in a pan-Caribbean perspective
the production, use and exchange of bodily accoutrements through the lenses of the microscope
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Andrea Ragragio
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Compartilhando Coleções e Conectando Histórias
Sharing Collections and Connecting Histories
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2010 Gabina Aurora Pérez building Oaxaca
Gabina Aurora Pérez, Mixtec investigator and defender of rights of indigenous peoples, who is working at the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University (The Netherlands), was honored by the Government of the State of Oaxaca, Mexico, as her name was given to one ofthe modern buildings in the ' Ciudad…
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Ubar Kampung
The Sundanese people, the largest ethnic group in West Java, have been using traditional medicine for a long time. Known as ubar kampung, Sundanese indigenous knowledge, beliefs and practices of traditional medicine are based on local people’s knowledge and use of Medicinal, Aromatic, and Cosmetic (MAC)…
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The reconstruction of the codex Añute palimpsest using hyperspectral imaging data
A technique originally developed for satellite imaging can now be used to recover pictographic texts from underneath the surface of a five hundred year old Mexican manuscript.
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Leiden Children's Rights Observatory
The Leiden Children's Rights Observatory is an open access online database of case commentaries, written by international experts on children’s rights, referring to the decisions of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child under the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on…
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Still no equal rights for native Mexican women
Native women are invisible in Mexican society. This is the conclusion Barbara Ortiz draws in her dissertation. PhD defence on 23 February.
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Maarten Jansen
Faculteit Archeologie
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Variation and change in Abui: The impact of Alor Malay on an indigenous language of Indonesia
On the 23rd of September, George Saad successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates George on this achievement!
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Weneya´a – “quien habla con los cerros”
This study documents and translates the Saa (Zapotec) cultural heritage of the Bene’ Ya’a/En’ne I’ya peoples, the Zapotec inhabitants of the Sierra Norte of Oaxaca.
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Children's Rights Monitor 2015
The Children’s Rights Monitor provides a thematic overview of the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in the Netherlands.
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Gintingan in Subang: An Indigenous Institution for Sustainable Community-Based Development in the Sunda Region of West Java, Indonesia
This study attempts to understand how indigenous community institutions pose an important role in sustainable community-based development, including the integration between local culture and development.
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International Children’s Rights (Advanced LL.M.)
Leiden University’s Master of Laws in International Children’s Rights (LL.M.) looks at human rights laws for children from a comparative perspective.
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Andean Mummies Journey to European Museums 1810-1970
A look into the political history of collecting and the collections of Andean mummies in Western European museums from 1830-1930 through archaeology and paleoimaging.
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International Law and Indigenous Rights in Australia
Lecture
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Jimpitan in Wonosobo, Central Java: an indigenous institution in the context of sustainable socio-economic development in Indonesia
In times of hardships or crisis, local people know how to deal with it using their resourcefulness. Although efforts are sometimes made by the government to help them, they are fully aware that community support is at least equally important.
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Early modern comparative ethnography
The ‘Locke drawings’ collection and the representation of Brazilian native peoples in global perspective
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Get to know International Children's Rights (advanced master)
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child anchors the right of every child; to protection, healthcare, education, participation and more. Though this is the most ratified international human rights instrument, children today still face significant rights violations. In this Advanced Studies in International…
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Get to know International Children's Rights (advanced master)
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child anchors the right of every child; to protection, healthcare, education, participation and more. Though this is the most ratified international human rights instrument, children today still face significant rights violations. In this Advanced Studies in International…
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Children’s Rights Monitor 2013
The Children’s Rights Monitor provides a thematic overview of the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in the Netherlands.
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Le tifinagh au Niger contemporain: Étude sur l’écriture indigène des Touaregs
In this dissertation a large corpus of letter signs and texts gathered during fieldwork in Niger, and to a lesser extent Mali and Burkina Faso is used to show the graphemic diversity of the traditional script of the Tuaregs, tifinagh, and to analyze the orthographic system.
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Children’s Rights Monitor 2012
The Children’s Rights Monitor provides a thematic overview of the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in the Netherlands.
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Frontiers of Children’s Rights
Frontiers of Children's Rights Summer School
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Children’s Rights in International Commercial Surrogacy
On 26 juni 2018, Claire Achmad defended her doctoral thesis 'Children’s Rights in International Commercial Surrogacy: Exploring the Challenges from a Child Rights, Public International Law Perspective'. The doctoral research was supervised by Prof. Dr. Mariëlle Bruning.
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lecture by Ms. Margaret Tuite, European Commission Coordinator for the Rights of the Child
On October 20th, the advanced International Children’s Rights master program and the Leiden Institute of Immigration Law co-organized a public lecture and Q&A session with Ms. Margaret Tuite, the European Commission Coordinator for the Rights of the Child.
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Department of Child Law advises UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
Researchers of the department of Child Law have submitted an advice to the Committee on the Rights of the Child of the United Nations, which monitors the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, on 7 January 2019.
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Advancing the Defence Rights of Children: Fair Trials Regional Training Event for Lawyers
From 26 until 28 January Leiden Law School hosted the regional training for lawyers as part of the EU funded project Advancing the Defence Rights of Children, organized by Fair Trials.
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Children's Rights Moot Court
The bi-annual Children’s Rights Moot Court (CRM), organised by the Department of Child Law in partnership with Baker McKenzie, was initiated by Leiden Law School in 2014 on the occasion of the 25th Anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. The Moot Court offers students…
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Ingrid Leijten publishes book Core Socio-Economic Rights and the European Court of Human Rights
Recently, Ingrid Leijten’s book Core Socio-Economic Rights and the European Court of Human Rights was published with Cambridge University Press. The monograph was published in the series Cambridge Studies in European Law and Policy (edited by Laurence Gormley and Jo Shaw) and deals with the protection…
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Lydia van de Fliert
Faculteit Archeologie
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Starchy foodways: surveying indigenous botanical foods during the advent of European encounters in the northern and circum-Caribbean
How do the starchy botanical foodways reflect upon previous archaeological understandings in the northern and circum-Caribbean?
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Online Manual for Practitioners on Advancing the Defence Rights of Children
Stephanie Rap and Chrisje Sandelowsky-Bosman have contributed as authors to the online training manual for lawyers, that is developed as part of the training programme Advancing the Defence Rights of Children.
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Frontex and Human Rights
Melanie Fink, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Europa Institute of Leiden University, has published her book Frontex and Human Rights, Responsibility in 'Multi-Actor Situations' under the ECHR and EU Public Liability Law. This work is based on her doctoral dissertation, which she defended in December…
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Research
Research framework CIAS
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The Right to Travel by Air of Persons with Disabilities
On Thursday 16 November 2017, Lalin Kovudhikulrungsri defended her doctoral thesis entitled ‘The Right to Travel by Air of Persons with Disabilities’. The supervisors are Professor P.M.J. Mendes de Leon and Professor A.C. Hendriks.
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Tlamatiliztli. The wisdom of Nahua people
Intercultural epistemology and land rights
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European and International Human Rights Law (Advanced LL.M.)
Our Master Law in European and International Human Rights Law (LL.M.) looks at the various human rights protection mechanisms from a comparative perspective
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Realising the right to reproduce with assistance in South Africa
On 10 november 2021, Carmel van Niekerk-Jacobs defended the thesis 'Realising the right to reproduce with assistance in South Africa'. The doctoral research was supervised by Prof. J.J. Sloth-Nielsen and Prof. T. Liefaard.
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Cultural framing of rights and subjectivities
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Children's rights in crisis. Multidisciplinary, transnational, and comparative perspectives
This book rigorously investigates the contemporary state of children's rights and the multifaceted challenges facing children, uncovering the complexities at their core.
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Do banks have human rights?
On 1 October 2019 the Hazelhoff Centre for Financial law hosted its 19th guest lecture starring Paul Sharma, managing director at Alvarez & Marsal and co-head of the European Financial Industry Regulatory Advisory Services practices.
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Book launch 'The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child’
The book 'The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child' is the result of the international academic conference – ’25 Years CRC’ – which was held in November 2014 in Leiden on the occasion of the 25th birthday of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
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National human rights institutions: independent actors in global human rights governance?
This article discusses the degree of independence that is required for national human rights institutions to function successfully.
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Tentoonstelling: Het onvertelde Caribische verhaal
Het zichtbaar maken van ongeschreven verhalen van inheemse culturen en volken van de Cariben. Dat doet de tentoonstelling ‘Caribbean Ties’ in de Oude UB.
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Street children have rights too! Problems faced by street children globally and in the Philippines and why their rights need protection
To what extent are the rights to street children violated en how can their rights be protected?