Admissions to the Venice Academy of Human Rights on the topic Economic, Social, and Cultural
Rights as an Answer to Rising Inequalities (3 – 12 July 2017), organised by the European InterUniversity
Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation (EIUC) are open until 19 April 2017, early
birds who apply until 15 March 2017 receive a 10% discount.
The Venice Academy of Human Rights is a centre of excellence for human rights education,
research and debate. It hosts distinguished experts to promote critical and useful research,
innovation and exchange of current knowledge.
The theme Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights as an Answer to Rising Inequalities discusses
the prospects for economic and social justice against the background of rising inequalities in the
world. Are human rights an effective tool for the promotion of economic and social equality? Do
human rights impose limits to privatization of particular goods and services? How do human rights
enable a just economic and social order? These are but some of the questions that participants of
the Academy will discuss in an intense programme over ten days this summer.
Branko Milanović, Visiting Presidential Professor at the Graduate Center City University of New
York and a LIS Senior Scholar, is going to deliver the pening lecture of the Venice Academy of
Human Rights. Olivier De Schutter, Professor at the University of Louvain (UCL) and at
SciencesPo (Paris), will deliver the general course.
Theme: Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights as an Answer to Rising Inequalities
Dates: Monday, 3 July Wednesday,
12 July 2017
Type of courses: Lectures, seminars, discussion sessions and panel presentations
Number of hours: 34 hours
Venue: Monastery of San Nicolò, Venice Lido,
Italy
For any query about the Venice Academy please contact us at venice.academy@eiuc.org
www.eiuc.org/veniceacademy
