The NNHRR Working Group on Human Rights & the Climate Crisis invites you to join their Annual Conference on "Legal Advisory Opinions Shaping Climate Action and Human Rights". The conference, organized by Julie Fraser, Anneloes Kuiper, Otto Spijkers and Pat...

Eco-anxiety is a growing challenge facing professionals working on climate-related issues, including researchers and educators. The mental health impacts of the climate crisis are widely recognised and have been documented by numerous scholarly studies. For st...

The Network has many PhD members, conducting innovative research on human rights. To get to know them and their research better, we interviewed them!   Lisa van Roermund Lisa van Roermund is conducting her PhD at Radboud University in Nijmegen. Her PhD re...

We are pleased to announce that the latest NNHRR Report, titled “Human Rights, Collaboration, Community”, has just been published. The Report covers the Network's activities, projects and events which occurred between 1 January 2023 and 31 August 2025.   Foll...

The Netherlands Network for Human Rights Research (NNHRR) is pleased to announce its fourth Doctoral Research Forum. Organized with Maastricht University Law School, the Forum will take place on Friday, 30th of January 2026 at Maastricht University. The deadli...

“Advancing Social, Economic, and Cultural Rights in a Polarised, Digitalised, and Unequal World” is the launching Conference of the NNHRR Working Group on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights and of the project “Evolving Rights: Social Rights in the Era of Cl...

The Annual Conference of the NNHRR Working Group on Human Rights & the Climate Crisis, organized by Julie Fraser, Anneloes Kuiper, Otto Spijkers & Patricio Trincado Vera, will take place at Leiden University College (Anna van Buerenplein 301, The Hague...

Thursday 14 November 2025 will mark the 75th anniversary of the European Convention on Human Rights. On this occasion, the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM) of Utrecht University will host its annual Peter Baehr Lecture, which will be delivered by Ju...

The Max van der Stoel Human Rights Award celebrates early-career researchers in the field of human rights. The upcoming edition, organised by Tilburg University, will take place on 10 December 2025. Manuscripts compete in two categories: Best Doctoral Disserta...