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  Written by Başak Çali   On Saturday 20 March 2021, Turkey woke up to a historic first – the announcement of its first withdrawal from a human rights treaty by the President. A presidential decision declared that Turkey was leaving the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence. This is the convention better known, most ironically, as the Istanbul Convention due to Turkey’s leading role in its creation. Published in the Official Gazette in the early hours of 20 March 2021, Presidential Decision 3718 reads: ‘It is decided that the Council of Europe Treaty on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence signed on 11/5/2011 and ratified on 10/2/2012 with the Council of Ministers Decision No 2012/2816 is to be terminated based on Presidential Decree No 9 paragraph 3.’ The Istanbul Convention was ratified by the Turkish Gra...

    EJIL:The Podcast! Episode 7: “Walking Back Human Rights in Europe?” ‬ In this episode of the podcast, Sarah Nouwen is in conversation with Laurence Helfer (Harry R. Chadwick, Sr. Professor of Law, Duke Law School) and Erik Voeten (Peter F. Krogh Professor of Geopolitics and Justice in World Affairs, Georgetown University) about their article “ Walking Back Human Rights in Europe? ” which was published in the ...

  Tomorrow: Lecture 9 Reminder: Lecture nine, Gender, Human Rights, and Migrants 
, with Audrey Macklin, a professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto, is tomorrow, November 4, at 12:00pm EST . Readings for Lecture Nine ...

  1. Call for Papers: 2021 Human Rights Essay Award Competition.  The  Human Rights Essay Award , sponsored by the Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at the American University Washington College of Law, seeks to stimulate the production of scholarly work in international human rights law. The topic of the 2021 competition is Human Rights and States of Emergency: Unexpected Crisis and New Challenges. The scope of the submission must directly relate to this year’s topic. For these purposes, international human rights law can be understood to include international humanitarian law and international criminal law. Two winners will be awarded — one for a submission in English and one for a submission in Spanish — with a full scholarship (including lodging and transportation to and from Washington, D.C.) to complete the Certificate of Attendance or Diploma in the 2021 Program of Advanced Studies on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law which wi...

Nationalist politics and the COVID pandemic have produced policies and rhetoric that limit global mobility and impose significant harms on migrants and refugees. What does the regime of international human rights say about the current moment?  What is the structure and content of human rights protections for those on the move?  This course will present multiple perspectives on mobility and human rights. Leading experts drawn from the academy and international institutions will address the most pressing issues of the day — including migrant workers, gender, racism and xenophobia, human trafficking, child migration, immigration enforcement, and forced migration. The course will provide ways to engage critically and imaginatively with these issues and consider alternative approaches to the current system.    https://zolberginstitute.org/courses/hr-migration/#recording-2   Interessant artikel? Deel het eens met uw netwerk en help mee met het ver...

This six-month teaching and research fellowship has been specifically created for the purposes of covering the (limited) graduate-level teaching obligations of ISS faculty members who will be on research leave in the first half of 2021. The Fellow will in particular deliver and co-ordinate teaching in the following two ISS MA courses: Human Rights, Law & Society and Mobilising Rights & Social Justice, in agreement with the relevant course leaders. The curriculum has been developed, but there is much scope for the teaching fellow’s own unique input. In addition, this fellowship provides for an opportunity to conduct research in an invigorating multidisciplinary and multicultural environment. Formally, the Fellow will be affiliated with the Institute’s MA-Major teaching programme on Human Rights, Gender and Conflict Studies: Social Justice Perspectives, as well as the ISS research group Global Development, Law and Social Justice. Requirements Candidates n...

That is quite a gesture. People tend to cling to posts in high offices but this prince does not want to bend the knee and see his job marginalised. The High Commisioner for Human Rights is by the way the crown prince of Iraq. Zeid Ra’ad Hussein worries the global retreat from human rights makes his job untenable. The United Nations’ top human rights advocate told his staff that he will not seek a second term, citing concern that his voice would be silenced in an age when the United States and other world powers are retreating from their historical commitment to human rights. Zeid Ra’ad Hussein, a Jordanian prince and former ambassador who served as a U.N. political officer during the Bosnian war, announced his plan in an end-of-year email to employees of the Geneva-based human rights agency. His term ends in the summer of 2018. “Next year will be the last of my mandate,” Zeid wrote Wednesday in the email, which was obtained by Foreign Policy . “...

This year’s theme is Behind the headlines , highlighting human rights issues that did not make it into the headlines and providing essential background information for those that did. The weekend is filled with human rights films, master classes and discussions with film directors, Human Rights Watch researchers, journalists, government officials and others about topics such as international criminal justice, unaccompanied child refugees, police militarisation, freedom of expression, sexual violence as a weapon of war, environment and human rights, schools and hospitals under attack, and Trump and human rights. The event covers a wide range of countries, from Rwanda to the United States and from Burma (Myanmar) to Denmark. Routes Human Rights Watch offers four routes for those interested in particular topics: International Justice: The Uncondemned / The Apology / Sexual violence as a weapon of war / Fighting for Global Justice Freedom of Expression: Tickling Gi...