Call for Papers
Registration: AHRI Conference, Lima, Peru, 11-13 September 2025
Registration for in person attendance is now open for the AHRI conference in Lima, Peru, 11-13 September 2025. Early bird discount until 15 July.
Castan Centre Annual Human Rights Conference 2025
In celebration of our 25th anniversary, the Castan Centre Annual Conference will be held on Friday, 25 July 2025. Join us for a powerful line-up of speakers tackling the challenges of protecting human rights in today’s complex world.
Special Issue on Feminist Judgments in Refugee Studies
Oxford Academic Press is excited to invite submissions for a special Issue proposal to the Journal of Refugee Studies, focused on the role of feminist legal critique and re-imagining in refugee law. This issue will explore how feminist judgments through trans-inclusive, decolonial, and interdisciplinary in order to reimagine foundational legal and policy texts that govern refugee protection. Academics, legal practitioners, activists, and those with lived experience are welcome to make submissions addressing topics such as: Gender as a ground for protection Redefining 'persecution' Intersectionality in asylum law Interdisciplinary critiques of law The deadline for the submission of abstracts is 4 July 2025.
Geneva Human Rights Platform Courses 2025
The Geneva Human Rights Platform has announced its 2025 training schedule, offering a range of specialised courses for professionals, academics, and practitioners. Topics include business and human rights, environmental protection, local implementation of human rights, and the UN system. For details and registration, visit: Geneva Human Rights Platform.
A list of the trainings below:
Business and Human Rights: 19-13 May
Monitoring and Implementation at the National Level: 7-11 July
Human Rights and the Environment (Online): 1-8 September (4 half days)
Protecting Human Rights and the Environment: 15-19 September
Localising International Human Rights: 8-10 October
Universal Periodic Review & UN Human Rights System: 10-14 November
IBEI Graduate Summer School 2025
The IBEI Graduate Summer School offers an engaging academic experience for students, scholars, and professionals in international relations, security, development, and public policy. Held in June, the courses combine expert-led lectures, interactive seminars, and opportunities to present research or policy work. This year’s topics include feminist and anti-gender politics, American foreign policy, qualitative methods, and authoritarian legacies. Courses offered in this edition: Practical Applications in Qualitative Research Methods. Tutku Ayhan (IBEI) - 5 & 6 June (12-14:00h and 15-18:00h) Feminist and Anti-Gender Politics in International Relations. Susana Galan (IBEI) & Tutku Ayhan (IBEI) - 17 & 18 June (10-13:00h and 14-16:00h) American Foreign Policy: Changes, Challenges, and Global Consequences. Bruce W. Jentleson (IBEI-IEN) - 19 & 20 June (10-13:00h and 14-16:00h) Legacies of Authoritarianism and the Far Right in Europe and Beyond. Laia Balcells (Georgetown University) - 25 June (09-13:00h and 14-16:00h) & 27 June (09-11:00h and 11:30-13:30h)
Call for Abstracts: Thicker Notions of Human Rights Accountabilities
Future Proofing Human Rights is inviting contributions that seek to reconstruct the notion of human rights accountability, divided across five themes: Change, Knowing, Duties, Harm, and Remedy. Future Proofing Human Rights welcome contributions from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, including but not limited to law, socio-legal perspectives, criminology, and political science. The Thicker Notions of Human Rights Accountabilities Conference revisits the questions of what qualifies as a human rights violation, who holds human rights duties and how to actually deliver human rights accountability in the context of pressing and complex challenges. It will be hosted by the Future Proofing Human Rights research project in Brussels, Belgium from 19-21 November 2025. The deadline for submission is 20 June 2025.
New Publication: Guidelines for Universities Hosting Human Rights Defenders
New Guidelines for Universities Hosting Human Rights Defenders were recently published by UNESCO Chair - Protection of Human Rights Defenders and Expansion of Political Space at the Centre for Applied Human Rights, University of York. Over a year-long process, the UNESCO Chair collaborated with universities, NGOs, donors and human rights defenders to co-produce these Guidelines which represent an invitation for universities to get involved in hosting, a source of inspiration about why this work matters, and a guide and set tools on how to provide support for human rights defenders.
New Publication: Abortion Law Reform in Africa: A Reproductive Health and Rights Perspective
This timely volume examines unsafe abortion as a persistent public health issue in Africa, going beyond legal analysis to explore social, economic, and cultural barriers to safe abortion care. It calls for stronger rights-based reforms and the implementation of instruments like the African Women’s Protocol to ensure reproductive autonomy and gender equality.
New Publication: Queer Judgments
This edited collection brings together scholars, lawyers, and activists to re-imagine and re-write legal judgments affecting LGBTIQA+ people through queer and critical lenses. Spanning 26 cases across diverse legal areas, from crime and discrimination to family, health, and asylum, this book offers an international, multidiscipliary perspective. Ideal for teaching, research, or advocacy, the e-book is available here: https://counterpress.org.uk/publications/queer-judgments/
2025 Essex Human Rights Summer School
The renowned Essex Human Rights Summer School is back with its intensive, fully online programme from 9 to 20 June 2025. Designed for those looking to advance their careers in human rights, the two-week course offers daily sessions from 1:00pm to 4:30pm (UK time), Monday to Friday. Participants will gain: Insights from a world-class international faculty. Training in research methods, advocacy, and campaigning. Practical skills in organisational management and professional resilience. Real-world case studies led by experienced human rights practitioners.
News
Call for Proposals: AHRI Conference
The Association of Human Rights Institutes (AHRI) is delighted to announce its 2025 Annual Conference, themed “Protecting Human Rights from the Global Spread of Organized Crime.” The conference will take place from September 11-13, 2025, in Lima, Peru, hosted by the Institute of Democracy and Human Rights PUCP (IDEHPUCP). This landmark event marks AHRI’s 25th anniversary and its first-ever conference in Latin America, bringing together global scholars, practitioners, policymakers, and civil society to explore solutions to the growing threats organized crime poses to human rights. Proposals are now being accepted for panel discussions and papers across four key tracks, ranging from global perspectives on organized crime to reflections on 25 years of human rights challenges and emerging future issues. The conference will adopt a hybrid format, welcoming both in-person and remote participants. Submissions should include an abstract of 300-500 words and adhere to the guidelines outlined in the conference's official call. The deadline for submissions is March 15, 2025.
AHRI Announces Collaboration with the Graphix Project.
Proposals are now being accepted for panel discussions and papers across four key tracks, ranging from global perspectives on organized crime to reflections on 25 years of human rights challenges and emerging future issues. The conference will adopt a hybrid format, welcoming both in-person and remote participants. Submissions should include an abstract of 300-500 words and adhere to the guidelines outlined in the conference's official call. The deadline for submissions is March 15, 2025.
AHRI adopts Statement on the War in Gaza
AHRI adopted the Statement on the War in Gaza at the 2024 Executive Committee/Board meeting held on 12 April 2024.
HAKI Journal of Human Rights
HAKI Journal of Human Rights is an annual peer-reviewed academic journal that seeks to provide researchers, scholars and human rights practitioners with a platform for engaging in human rights theory, practice and advocacy. The journal’s general aim is to broaden the study and practice of human rights by fostering a critical re-examination of existing approaches from an Afrocentric perspective through discussions on themes on the universal theory and practice of human rights. The Journal invites analytically rigorous papers, articles, comments on cases, legislation, policies and book reviews pertaining to various themes in Human Rights in Kenya.
AHRI Conference 2025
AHRI Conference 2025 will be hosted by Institute of Democracy and Human Rights in Peru. The Conference will be held from 11 to 13 September 2025. AHRI Conference 2026 will be hosted by the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights. More details to follow.