Activities
The Association of Human Rights Institutes(AHRI) is involved in three types of activites:
- Annual AHRI conference
- Assembly meeting during the AHRI conference
- Working groups for the COST Action participation
Annual AHRI conference
The AHRI conference is where members and other interested parties within the human rights field gather to work on current issues in defined research areas.
Assembly meeting
The assembly meeting is held during the annual conference. Minutes from the assembly meeting are published on the conference pages.
Working groups for the COST Action participation
The COST Actions enables AHRI members to co-operate on research topics of common interest. AHRI is currently involved in the COST Action IS0702.
COST is one of the longest-running European instruments supporting cooperation among scientists and researchers across Europe. It is supported by the EU RTD Framework Programme.
COST Action IS0702: The Role of the EU in UN Human Rights Reform
The main objective of the Action is to increase and consolidate knowledge of the ongoing process of institutional, structural, and procedural reforms of the United Nations human rights system, so as to recommend standpoints for the European Union in this process working towards strengthening the protection of human rights world-wide.
Previous COST Action participation
AHRI participated in the COST project A28: Human Rights, Peace and Security in EU Foreign Policy.
The main objective of the Action was to increase and deepen knowledge on the functioning of national and international instruments devised to pursue human rights, peace and security objectives in order to recommend modifications of the foreign policy of the European Union.