SONGS OF THE PEOPLE Traditional & contemporary culture in Northern Ireland When: 7 December 2015 at 8:00pm Where: Aether & Echo, Lower Garfield Street, Belfast In Northern Ireland, cultural identity is a lively topic of debate. What is culture but simply the way we live out our lives? It’s the food we eat, the news […]
Category: Announcements
Enforcing Equality: Training seminar, Friday 27 June 10am, UNISON Offices, Derry/ Londonderry
The Equality Coalition held a training seminar on Friday 4 April in UNISON for members of the Equality Coalition and other NGOs, community groups, voluntary organisations, policy officers and trade unionists. The session looked at how best to make complaints to ensure District Councils, Health Trusts, Education Boards, the Housing Executive, Government Departments etc abide […]
Covert Policing and Ensuring Accountability: Ten Years on from the Cory Collusion Inquiry Reports, where now?
CAJ in partnership with University of Ulster Transitional Justice Institute (TJI) will be hosting the following seminar on Tuesday 1 July 2014 Covert Policing and Ensuring Accountability: Ten Years on from the Cory Collusion Inquiry Reports, where now? Rooms 82A01 and 82A02 University of Ulster Belfast Campus, 9.30am-3pm Background information for the Covert Policing Seminar […]
Opportunity: Venice Based Masters in Human Rights and Democraticisation
The European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation (EIUC) is accepting applications for the 18th edition of the European Master’s Degree in Human Rights and Democratisation (E.MA). E.MA provides students with the opportunity to share knowledge and skills with leading scholars from 41 prestigious European Universities and renowned Human Rights experts, in the classroom […]
PhD Funding opportunities
Queen’s University and the University of Ulster have both recently announced funding opportunities for persons interested in doing a PhD. Details of the QUB funding is available at http://www.law.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofLaw/StudyattheSchool/PostgraduateStudies/Scholarships/. Details of the Ulster funding is at http://research.ulster.ac.uk/info/prospective/funding.html Potential applicants are advised to consult the list of staff interests and to consult potential supervisors well in […]
The EU Charter of Rights and the Balance of Competences Review
The Ministry of Justice has a consultation on the role of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights (deadline for responses 13 January 2014). The consultation is at https://consult.justice.gov.uk/digital-communications/boc-fundamental-rights-review. Send responses by email to fundamentalrightsBOC@justice.gsi.gov.uk
Business and human rights – event
Queen Mary University of London Law Professor Alan Dignam and Menagerie Theatre Company, in association with Amnesty International UK and Queen Mary Drama, explore the human rights consequences of the global expansion of private power. Join the discussion. Rehearse the future. This exciting workshop uses forum theatre dramatisations to look at the growing reach […]
CONFERENCE: Challenging the Oppression of Lawyers in Times of Conflict
On Wednesday 13 November 2013 the Human Rights Centre, School of Law at Queen’s University Belfast are hosting a one day conference entitled ‘Challenging the Oppression of Lawyers in Times of Conflict’. It is open to anyone interested in conflict studies, politics, international relations, human rights, international law, justice and transitional justice. SPEAKERS […]
Seamus Heaney, ambassador of conscience
We’re all a wee bit devastated here at Amnesty International at the news of the death of Seamus Heaney. He was a great friend and supporter of our work and of activism for human rights generally. We formally note our sorrow at his passing here, while my colleague Colm O’Gorman has posted a beautiful tribute on […]
Stop Press! Two-day Colloquium on emotions and law at QUB today and tomorrow
A very exciting two-day Colloquium at Queen’s University on emotional dynamics, law and legal discourse, will be held today and tomorrow. The University has confirmed, this morning, that there are still places if individuals want to attend, with sessions starting today at 1.45 PM (but note the fee in cash or cheque of £25 for […]
The Inez McCormack Fund
“To enable the powerless, the invisible, to be part of making the change, that changes how they see themselves and that changes everything” Inez McCormack, the internationally renowned human rights activist died yesterday 21st January following a short illness. In accordance with her wishes, the Participation and Practice of Rights (PPR) organisaton, which she founded […]
Human Rights Day Festival
Monday 10 December is International Human Rights Day. The Human Rights Consortium will be holding a Human Rights Festival during this time, with a theme of ‘Celebrating and Protecting Human Rights’. This will be an opportunity for the wide diversity of groups that work on human rights issues in Northern Ireland to contribute to a […]