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New project: ‘Strengthening the role of legal actors in the defence of the right to freedom of expression’
20 March 2020The universal human right to freedom of expression and the relevance of the rule of law are formal UN Sustainable Development Goals. Yet, in the past 10 years there has been a steep growth in attacks on freedom of expression in general, and on journalists in p...
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[Asser in the news] Mexico’s amnesty proposal: an instrument of transitional justice?
9 March 2020Asser Researcher Dr León Castellanos-Jankiewicz has published an analysis in Just Security about the shortcomings of Mexico’s amnesty law. As violence in Mexico reaches record highs, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has proposed an amnesty law aimed at b...
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[EVENT] Nationality deprivation in the era of Rohingya genocide and ISIS fighters
4 March 2020Due to the Coronavirus outbreak, this event has been changed into a webinar that will take place on the same day instead. For more information and to register please follow this link. ------ The Asser Institute will co-organise an event with the Institut...
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Asser researcher writes on the limits of digital surveillance for Het Parool
2 March 2020Asser researcher Dr Dimitri van den Meerssche writes an article for the Dutch newspaper Het Parool calling for a debate on the limits of the digital surveillance (welfare) state in light of the recent SyRI case judgment. In his article, entitled "Towards a cr...
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[SIGN UP NOW] Online advanced summer programme on terrorism, countering terrorism and the rule of law
24 February 2020Covid-19 updateDue to the Corona virus outbreak, the format of this training programme might be subject to change. While we strive to welcome you on our premises in The Hague, we might be forced to move the programmes to an online platform. Should this happen,...