Each year the NNHRR organises a PhD Training aimed at 1st and 2nd year PhD students. This year’s event will take place at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam on Wednesday, 31 May 2023 09:30-17:00 CEST, and is organised in collaboration with the Asser Institute of...

About the event The adoption by the United Nations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) on 10 December 1948 marked the beginning of the modern system of protection of human rights at the international level. Since then, so much has happened in ...

This post was originally published on the Human Rights Here blog on 10 March 2023 and can be found here.  On 1 January 2023, Dr. Jasper Krommendijk became the new Chair of the NNHRR (Netherlands Network of Human Rights Research) Steering Committee succeeding ...

Each year the NNHRR organises a PhD Follow Up Training aimed at 3rd and 4th year PhD students. This year’s event will take place at the University of Amsterdam on Thursday, 13 April 2023 08:45-16:30 CEST, and is organized in collaboration with the Asser Instit...

This post was originally published on the T.M.C. Asser Institute website on 27 February 2023 and can be found here. Last week, the international law clinic project on ‘Access to Justice for Gun Violence’ was launched by the Amsterdam International Law Clinic ...

This post was originally published on the Human Rights Here blog on 9 November 2023 and can be found here.  The NNHRR held its second Doctoral Research Forum on October 14 at the University of Groningen, which hosted the event in cooperation with the Asser In...

Established in 2021, this year’s edition will take place in Groningen on Friday, 14 October 10:00-18:00 (CEST), in cooperation with the University of Groningen and the Open University. The Doctoral Research Forum aims at giving participants the opportunity to ...

In a new blog post on Just Security, NNHRR academic coordinator León Castellanos-Jankiewicz and research intern Kaya van der Horst build the case for repealing the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA) in the United States. The authors demonstrate ...

The NNHRR is proud to announce that Prof. Yvonne Donders, Chair of the NNHRR Steering Committee, has been elected to the UN Human Rights Committee (HRC) for the 2023-2026 term. Yvonne was nominated in her personal capacity by the Kingdom of The Netherlands and...