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Five student scholarships available for the Doing Business Right Winter Academy
7 December 2018The Asser institute is offering five students or PhD candidates a partial scholarship to attend our upcoming Doing Business Right Winter Academy from 28 January to 1 February 2019. As the field of business and human rights grows, more and more dialogue, debat...
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Ernst Hirsch Ballin spoke on the Freedom of Speech
6 December 2018On Monday, December 10, Prof. Dr Ernst Hirsch Ballin, president of T.M.C. Asser Instituut, delivered a speech to mark the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). He spoke in the Domkerk in Utrecht, on invitation of Amnesty Interna...
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Preliminary programme out now! Artificial Intelligence & International Law Winter Academy
5 December 2018The preliminary programme for our Winter Academy on Artificial Intelligence and International Law is out. This interactive training from 11-15 February 2019 features over twenty sessions by high-level speakers and includes panels, workshops, and a mini-hackath...
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Blog: ‘Why EU member states should not hesitate to vote for the Global Compact for Migration’
29 November 2018In this blog, Asser researcher Dr Narin Idriz explains the Global Compact for Migration, sometimes wrongly called the Marrakech Treaty 2018. The compact is a non-binding UN agreement on a common approach to international migration to be adopted on 10-11 Decemb...
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New policy brief: ‘Counter-terrorism measures need to be evaluated’
27 November 2018Counter-terrorism laws and policies need to be much better motivated and justified through assessments, evaluations and reviews, according to a new policy brief by Asser Institute researcher Dr Berenice Boutin. Governments around the world are increasingly i...