Sejal Parmar at the 2014 Association of Human Rights Institutes Conference

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 at the School of Public Policy, presented a paper entitled “Othering in an Era of Mass Surveillance: the Whistleblower, Journalist and Foreigner” at a panel during the 2014 Association of Human Rights Institutes (“AHRI”) research conference, “Human Rights Under Pressure: Exploring Norms, Institutions and Policies,” which took place on 29 and 30 September 2014 in Copenhagen.

The panel, which was chaired Aleksandra Gliszczyńska–Grabias, also featured papers by Antoine de Buyse, Professor of Human Rights and Director of the Netherlands Institute for Human Rights, and Michael Hamilton, CEU visiting professor and Senior Lecturer of Public Protest Law at the University of East Anglia. The discussant of the papers on the panel was Michael O’Flaherty, Professor of Human Rights Law and the Director of the Irish Centre for Human Rights at the National University of Ireland, who was the principal drafter of the Human Rights Committee’s General Comment No 34 on the freedoms of opinion and expression.

During the conference, Parmar also chaired another panel on “Right-Based Development” which featured as discussant Arne Tostensen, Senior Researcher at the Chr. Michelsen Institute.

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