Parmar Chairs Panel at Association of Human Rights Institutes Meeting

Sejal Parmar, assistant professor in the Department of Legal Studies and a member of the core faculty of the Center for Media, Data and Society, chaired a panel on “Old and New Challenges for Human Rights” at the Association of Human Rights Institutes’ Human Rights Research Conference “50 Years of the Two UN Human Rights Covenants: Legacies and Prospects” hosted by the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM) of Utrecht University on 1-3 September 2016.

The panel included the presentation of papers by Rory O’Connell, Professor and Director of the Transitional Justice Institute at Ulster University (“Democracy must be defended! (From Democracy)”), Dr Dug Cubie, Lecturer in Law at University College Cork (“A Rights-Based Approach to Humanitarian Action: Balancing Humanitarian and Human rights Protection in Crises”), and Daniela Heerdt, PhD candidate at Tilburg University (“The Business of Mega Sporting Events: Towards Human Rights Obligations for International Sports Organizing Bodies.”)

In delivering the closing address of the conference and the Peter Baehr lecture, Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, called on the academic community to engage in further research into the formidable challenges to the implementation of human rights today.

Parmar is the representative of the Department of Legal Studies at AHRI.