Keynote speaker: Dr Anja Mihr
Dr Anja Mihr is an Associate Professor at the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights. She has held positions from the Head of the Rule of Law Programme at the Institute for Global Justice in Utrecht to a Visiting professor at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Beijing, in which she has been a pioneer in the literature on the biggest challenges to the traditional Human Rights Agenda.
Beyond her formidable academic contributions, Dr Mihr's research and fieldwork across the world, and work with Amnesty International promises to bring to her keynote a practical perspective and gritty reality. Fittingly, Dr Mihr has recently explored how Human Rights interact with modern phenomena such as the growth of the internet, 21st Century terrorism, urbanisation and new modes of governance.
Links to Dr Mihr's articles, publications and research can be found here.
Our Keynote speaker will be speaking on the topic of:
Challenges for Human Rights in the 21st century: cyber space, demography and climate
Morning Panel
Following what promises to be a thought-provoking keynote, all delegates are invited to attend a Morning Panel which will consider the following questions:
1. What is at the centre of a human right? To what extent is proximity between an action and the resulting violation of a human right currently a part of this definition? To what extent should it be?
2. To what extent do location, nationality, and socio-economic status currently affect the enforcement and protection of human rights (both in theory and practice)? To what extent should they, or is it ethical that they do? And to what extent has this changed, given recent modernisation? Is there a way that modernisation can be used to ensure more equal protection?
Dr Mihr will be joined on the Morning Panel by:
Professor Hildebrandt David Smith Tara Van Ho
This should equip delegates with a road-map of issues to check the right being considered by afternoon panel they choose to attend against.
