Senior researcher and head of the Asser Institute’s International Sports Law Centre Antoine Duval highlights the global struggle to force the football organisation FIFA to take responsibility for labour rights abuses suffered by migrant workers in Qatar. In an...

On Monday 14 November, the Asser Institute and Global Rights Compliance (GRC) co-organised the conference ‘Strengthening Ukraine’s national efforts to investigate, prosecute, adjudicate and report on international crimes’. The conference - which was fully book...

Last month, the Asser Institute began a new project to investigate the potential of big data technologies in the context of the due diligence process for the Deutsche Gesellschaft für internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH. Human rights and environmental du...

During a three-month stay in The Hague, visiting research fellow Ali Erdoğan focuses on human rights and same-sex marriages in EU law. “I would like to make some changes in this world with regard to LGBTIQ+ rights. And I believe that I can achieve this throug...

Registration will soon open for the 5th edition of our annual Spring Academy on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and international law. Pre-register now to be notified when registration opens and to stay up to date on the latest news regarding the event. This trai...

In a new podcast episode by On Air, Asser Institute researcher Taylor Woodcock discusses today’s ‘overshadowing focus on autonomous weapon systems (aws) in warfare’, and the consequential lack of attention to other military applications of artificial intellige...

In a new blog post on Verfassungsblog, Asser researchers Antoine Duval and Daniela Heerdt have a closer look at the long-awaited “Strategic Framework on Human Rights” (Framework) that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) published early September. The n...

[New research paper] 'Magnitsky sanctions fail to serve human rights or security'   In a new paper, Asser Institute researchers Victoria Kerr and James Patrick Sexton conclude that so-called ‘Magnitsky sanctions regimes’ - in which governments target people s...

Next week, the Asser Institute will host the Forum of Legal Actors for Freedom of Expression, which will discuss the state of freedom of expression and the protection of journalists in Africa and Latin America. The global network aims to support and defend the...