The 2016 AHRI human rights research conference: Call for papers

The 2016 AHRI human rights research conference: Call for papers
The Association of Human Rights Institutes (AHRI) calls for the submission of papers for the human rights research conference: "50 Years of the Two UN Human Rights Covenants: Legacies and Prospects".

2016 will mark a half century since the adoption of the two foundational human rights treaties, the ICCPR and ICESCR. The 50th anniversary of the two Covenants is the starting point for the general and broader 2016 AHRI Human Rights Research Conference. The conference will serve as a platform for presenting international human rights research across different disciplines. The 50th anniversary of the two Covenants is the leading theme, but proposals do not need to be limited to that, as the AHRI research conference aims to be a general platform for discussing new human rights research. Preference will be given to strong proposals falling within one of the following six tracks, under which several panels will be organised:

  • Indivisibility and interactions of norms and regimes;

  • Citizenship, migrants and refugees;

  • Non-state actors and human rights;

  • EU and human rights;

  • The global economy and human rights;

  • New avenues in human rights research

AHRI is a networkof over 50 member institutions that carry out research and education in the field of human rights. AHRI's objective is to bring together human rights researchers from across various disciplines, to facilitate the exchange of ideas and collaboration, and to promote research, education and discussion in the field of human rights.

The call for papers is available here. The deadline for submission of abstracts and panel proposals is the 25March 2016. The conference will take place at the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM) in Utrecht, the Netherlands, on 2-3 September 2016.

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