2022 Research Workshops

Striking a Fragile Balance? The Second Additional Protocol to the Cybercrime Convention and its Impact on Fundamental Rights - 28 March 2023

Co-organised by Tilburg University and Leiden University, this event is supported by the NNHRR and will be held on 28 March 2023 in The Hague. Key themes of this event are fundamental and human rights issues, the interaction of the Protocol with relevant EU legislation on electronic evidence, and the confidentiality of content data. For further information on the event, please click here.

Research Workshop: Human Rights and Natural Resources - 12 October 2023

Organised by the Erasmus School of Law, this workshop is supported by the NNHRR and will be held on 12 October 2023 at Erasmus University Rotterdam. The theme of the workshop is: *“Balancing Scarcity, Accessibility, and Protection for a Sustainable Development.”* The call for papers is now open, with further information available here.

Research Workshop: Future-proofing Your Human Rights Research: Climate Change as a Cross-Cutting Issue for Human Rights Research - 26 September 2023

Organised by the Groningen Centre for Health Law and Tilburg University, this event is supported by the NNHRR and will be held on 26 September 2023 at Groningen University. This event invites participants to actively reflect on their current research from a climate change perspective, and investigates human rights scholars’ academic responsibility to confront climate change more directly in their research. The call for papers is now open, with further information available here.

Research Workshop: Symposium on Private-Sector Involvement in Armed Conflicts and Access to Justice for Human Rights and Environmental Harm: The Case of Colombia - 15 December 2022

Organised by Tilburg University and supported by the NNHRR, this event took place on 15 December 2022, from 12:00-18:00. The symposium brought together experts on transitional justice, peacebuilding, development, and business, human rights, and the environment to discuss the involvement of business actors in human rights and environmental harm in situations of armed conflict and the barriers victims encounter in seeking effective redress. Taking Colombia as a case study, it examined the role of business actors in armed conflict and peacebuilding, as well as different legal mechanisms to address corporate human rights and environmental harm. The symposium was organised at the Department of Public Law and Governance of Tilburg Law School on the occasion of the defence of Philipp Wesche’s doctoral dissertation entitled “Business-related human rights violations and access to justice in Colombia.” To read a report summarising the event, please click here.

Research Workshop: A Conditional Release Procedure for Life Prisoners—An International Comparative Approach - 16 September 2022

This workshop aimed to clarify, in an international comparative manner, how a conditional release procedure for life prisoners could be implemented in the Netherlands. The workshop built on a previous workshop on life imprisonment organised by Prof. Dirk van Zyl Smit and Dr. Catherine Appleton in Onati, Spain, in 2015. This previous workshop resulted in the edited volume *“Life Imprisonment and Human Rights.”* The event took place on 16 September 2022, from 10:30-16:00, at Radboud University, with the possibility of joining online via Zoom. For the full programme, click here.

Round Table: 'When Corporations Disrespect Women's Human Rights: Access to Remediation of Good Quality' - 8 July 2022

During a round table on 8 July from 15:15-16:15 at Leiden University, five experts in gender, business, and human rights considered what it means for justice systems to be ‘of good quality’ for women when corporations have disrespected their rights. The experts included Katharine Booth (SOMO), Dewi Keppy (WO=MEN), Marianna Leite (ACT Alliance), Liesbet Stevens (Institute for the Equality of Women and Men, Belgium), and Meredith Veit. Aleydis Nissen moderated this round table. It was supported by the NNHRR, FWO, FNRS, and universities focusing on Institutions for Conflict Resolution in the Dutch Legal Sector Plan. For more information, see here.

Expert Panel Discussion: 'Transnational Civil Litigation and Corporate Liability: Mexico v. Smith & Wesson' - 2 May 2022

On 2 May 2022, the Mexican Embassy in The Hague—in collaboration with the Asser Institute and the University of Amsterdam—organised an in-depth discussion on the transnational litigation implications of the groundbreaking case of *Mexico v. Smith & Wesson.* The expert panel included leading legal scholars from an array of universities. To read more about the event, click here. To watch the recording, click here.

'Covid and the Rights of Citizens: A Conversation with Prof. Kim Rubenstein on the Australian Experience' - 1 March 2022

On 1 March 2022 at 20:00, Professor Kim Rubenstein (University of Canberra) and Dr. Julie Fraser (University of Utrecht) discussed the importance of citizenship-related rights to the experiences of those who found themselves stranded overseas during the pandemic. For the recording, see here.