767 search results for “human rights protection” in the Student website
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Wei ChuFaculteit Archeologie
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Apollonia BolscherFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Jenneke EversFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Morgan RousselFaculteit Archeologie
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José JoordensFaculteit Archeologie
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Cora LederFaculteit Archeologie
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Amanda HenryFaculteit Archeologie
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Gerrit DusseldorpFaculteit Archeologie
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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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Nominations Max van der Stoel Human Rights Award 2023
Education, Research
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Conference on final evaluation of Dutch Child Protection Act: 'Give children a voice’
‘The system is failing’, ‘the goals are only being achieved to a limited extent’, ‘we’re letting children down’. These are some of the newspaper headlines that followed the publication of a report by researchers from Leiden University in September. Commissioned by the Dutch Research and Documentation…
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‘If you know how the system works, you can stand up for your rights’
Legal protection. What do those involved in youth care and child protection understand by this concept? And what needs to change to improve legal protection? This question was explored by researchers from Leiden University’s Department of Child Law. Their research fits with the government’s ambition…
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Emile CammeraatFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Gerrit-Jan ZwenneFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Peggy Bracco GartnerFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Rajneesh PhokeerFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Els de BusserFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Maria-Lucia RebreanFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Anouk GoemansFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Mamadou HébiéFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Jens IversonFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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alumna Jolien Schukking: Working as a judge at the European Court of Human Rights
Alumna Jolien Schukking has been working as a judge at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg since 2017. In this special role, she provides legal protection at an international level in major cases and concerning various topics. What is her job like and what motivates her?
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Mendes wins the Jaap Doek Thesis Prize 2024 for his research on the right to read
Matheus Mendes was awarded the 12th Jaap Doek Thesis Prize at a ceremony on 13 December 2024 for his thesis on the right to read. The prize honours outstanding master’s theses in children’s rights.
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How can criminal law protect democracy?
Should criminal law have a greater role in protecting this democracy? In his inaugural lecture, Professor Jeroen ten Voorde urges caution.
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Children's Rights Under Fire: The Right to Education During and After War
Panel Discussion
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begins with bringing together economic law, environmental law and human rights
Economic law, environmental law and human rights are important fields of law for sustainable development. But they do not interact sufficiently, which makes it difficult to implement sustainable development.
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Sticky insects: plants protected with biological glue
Drained leaves and plants stripped bare. Insects can completely destroy crops. Soon, these situations may be behind us, with the new pesticide developed by Leiden and Wageningen researchers. With their plant-based ‘insect glue’, insects are incapacitated.
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Julian SteinkeFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Writing Lab Humanities: Leiden & The Hague
The Writing Lab helps students become better academic writers. Our coaches can support you at all stages of the writing process, whether you are just starting out and want help with your planning, revision and/or outlining, or whether you are already writing a text and want to improve its structure,…
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Larissa van den HerikFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Hoko HoriiFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Adam FaircloughFaculty of Humanities
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Igor DjakovicFaculteit Archeologie
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Mélie LouysFaculteit Archeologie
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Ieke de VriesFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Femke ReidsmaFaculteit Archeologie
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Joe Powderly co-edits volume, Heritage Destruction, Human Rights and International Law
The volume, Heritage Destruction, Human Rights and International Law, co-edited by Grotius Centre, Associate Professor Joe Powderly, and Dr Amy Strecker (Associate Professor, UCD), has been published by Brill/Nijhoff.
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Hans Franken Lecture by Jan Kleijssen, former Human Rights Director at the Council of Europe
On June 30, eLaw - Center for Law and Digital Technologies of Leiden University organised the annual Hans Franken Lecture. This year the lecture was delivered by Jan Kleijssen, former Human Rights Director at the Council of Europe.
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Evolutionary change in protective plant odours
Plants can’t run away from enemies. Still, it would like to keep life-threatening herbivores at a distance. This can be done with odours. Klaas Vrieling of the Institute of Biology Leiden found out with his team how plants change odour production to keep the munchers at a distance.
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Evelien Campfens at LeidenGlobal on cultural heritage protection
How can we best protect cultural heritage in times of war? In an interview with LeidenGlobal, cultural heritage law specialist Evelien Campfens talks about her current research project on cultural heritage protection in Ukraine for the European Parliament (EP).
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Nadia SonneveldFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Anna SmuldersFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Rehana DoleFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Ruben van UdenFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Lenneke AlinkFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Hans-Martien ten NapelFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Synthetic dataset protects privacy in criminological research
The SENSYN project has found a solution to few public datasets for criminological research: synthetic datasets. Marieke Liem talks about this unique innovation
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Students from Colombia win Children’s Rights Moot Court 2021
The team from Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia) came out on top at the international online Moot Court organised by Leiden University and law firm Baker McKenzie.
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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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‘The child protection system really isn’t in good order’
Last Thursday the Dutch House of Representatives held a debate on children being put into care when the childcare benefits scandal (toeslagenaffaire) had caused problems for their families. Four Leiden University academics were asked by the House to produce a fact sheet for this debate, bringing together…