About the book

The publication "The Local Relevance of Human Rights", edited by Koen De Feyter, Stephan Parmentier, Christiane Timmerman and George Ulrich, offers the contributions presented at the international academic conference organised by ucsia in October 2008 in collaboration with the University of Antwerp and the European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation (eiuc). The authors examine the factors determining how appeals to human rights that emanate from the local level become successful. They further research the need for updating some of the ideas of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights (udhr) in the face of local and concrete experiences of injustice.

Programme of the event:

• 17:00 Welcome by Jacques Haers sj, Director of Academic Affairs of ucsia
• 17:10 Presentation of the book by George Ulrich, Rector of the Riga Graduate School of Law

Presentations on Human Trafficking

• 17:30 Patsy Sörensen, founder and Director of Payoke, a non-governmental organisation focused on assisting victims of human trafficking
• 17:50 Prof. Gert Vermeulen, Director of the Institute for International Research on Criminal Policy (ircp),

Ghent University

• 18:10 Colette De Troy, Director of the European Women’s Lobby (ewl) Observatory on Violence Against Women
• 18:30 Response by the editors

· Prof. Koen De Feyter, Faculty of Law, University of Antwerp
· Prof. Stephan Parmentier, Research Unit Criminal Law and Criminology, K.U.Leuven
· Prof. Christiane Timmerman, CeMIS, University of Antwerp
· Prof. George Ulrich, Riga Graduate School of Law

• 19:00 Debate with panel, editors and public
• 19:30 End
• 20:00 Reception (New Year’s Drink ucsia)

Entrance is free

Language: English

Registration is required

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