Human Rights in Ireland is please to welcome this guest post from Dr Catherine O’Rourke, Transitional Justice Institute, School of Law, University of Ulster. The Transitional Justice Institute (TJI), University of Ulster, is pleased to announce the launch its innovative new masters programme, LLM Gender, Conflict and Human Rights. The new programme builds on both(…)
The Transitional Justice Institute (TJI) is hosting its 5th annual Summer School on Transitional Justice on the theme of: Gender, Conflict and UN Security Council Resolution 1325. The Summer School will be held from 25-29 June 2012 at the Jordanstown campus of the University of Ulster, located on the north shore of Belfast Lough, Northern(…)
The Transitional Justice Institute (TJI) will be holding its 2011 Annual Lecture on April 14th 2011. The guest speaker is Mr. Geoff Loane, who is the Head of UK Mission, International Committee of the Red Cross. Mr. Loane will speak on the topic Humanitarian Perspectives on Transition. This annual lecture will take place on April(…)
The Transitional Justice Institute, School of Law, University of Ulster has released details of its summer schools for 2011. This year the TJI will be running two different subject sections for its 2011 summer school on Gender, Conflict and Transition and Holding the State to Account: The Role of Public Inquiries. The TJI Summer School(…)
Applications are invited for a Department of Employment and Learning (NI) funded PhD studentship tenable in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Magee / Jordanstown Campus. Candidates should have ordinary UK residence to be eligible for both fees and maintenance. Non UK residents who hold ordinary EU residence may also apply but if successful(…)
Human Rights in Ireland is delighted to welcome this guest post from Denise Amram, PhD Candidate at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna of Pisa and Scientific Collaborator of LIDER Lab (www.lider-lab.eu). The evolution of tort law within the family has been affected by the understanding of Children’s Convention principles stated in articles 3, 18, 19. In particular,(…)
The School of Law, University of Ulster (Magee) in Londonderry/Derry is hosting an international conference on the Convention on the Rights of the Child at 21. A mix of academics, practitioners, social workers and researchers will present papers on issues such as cultural relativism and children’s rights, concepts of social kinship and law, migrant children,(…)
