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The COVID-19 pandemic has made historical and contemporary colonial relationships between and within States more salient. This situation is also apparent within the research process itself, adding a new dimension to pre-existing debates on positionality and the politics of knowledge production. With reference to a research project focusing on colonial legacy and Transitional Justice in Colombia, this seminar –conducted by Claire Wright– offers a series of reflections on the ways in which the pandemic has affected research inequalities between the Global North and Global South. To conclude, we look at what COVID-19 can teach us in terms of opportunities to decolonise our research.
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In this Ulster University Public Lecture, Prof Aoife Nolan discusses the role of courts in considering the rights of children and future generations in the context of the urgent global challenge presented by climate change. Children and future generations will bear the burden of environmental decisions made today. However, these non-voting groups cannot input effectively into decision-making around the environment. This lecture analyses the role that courts should adopt with regard to enforcing the constitutional rights of children and future generations in environmental protection cases. Responding to this ever-more prominent theme in child and youth-focused and driven environmental advocacy and litigation, the lecture focuses on how these groups' position âoutside democracyâ can and should shape the courts' role when deciding whether to impose constitutional constraints on democratic decision-making in the environmental protection context. Aoife Nolan is Professor of International Human Rights Law and Co-Director of the Human Rights Law Centre at the University of Nottingham and Visiting Professor at Ulster University. Professor Nolanâs professional experience in human rights and constitutional law straddles the legal, policy, practitioner and academic fields. She is Vice-President of the Council of Europe's European Committee of Social Rights, which she joined in 2017. She has published extensively in the areas of human rights and constitutional law, particularly in relation to children's rights and economic and social rights. She currently leads a major three-year international research project on âAdvancing Child Rights Strategic Litigationâ. Professor Nolan has acted as an expert advisor to a wide range of international and national organisations and bodies working on human rights issues, including numerous UN Special Procedures, UN treaty bodies, the Council of Europe, multiple NHRIs and NGOs. She has held visiting positions at academic institutions in Europe, Africa, the US and Australia. She is an Academic Expert member at Doughty Street Chambers where she co-leads the Childrenâs Rights Group. Her recent work has focused on climate justice and the rights of children and future generations. In January 2021, she was invited to join the advisory board to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child on its forthcoming General Comment No.26 on childrenâs rights and the environment with a special focus on climate change. This event was hosted by the School of Applied Social and Policy Sciences, School of Law and Transitional Justice Institute. The event was held in the Conor Lecture Theatre, Birley Building, Ulster University, York Street, Belfast, BT15 1ED, 10th November 2023. Prof SiobhĂĄn Wills (TJI Director) chaired the lecture.
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In this webinar PhD researchers and staff at Ulster University discuss what is it like to do a PhD in Law at Ulster. PhD researchers Roua Al-Taweel, MicheĂĄl Hearty and Leah Rea discuss why they wanted to do a PhD, their experience of applying to Ulster and their PhD journey to date. Prof Rory O'Connell then discusses the studentship opportunities at Ulster and Prof Karen Fleming highlights the AHRC Northern Bridge DTP. Prof SiobhĂĄn Wills outlines the work of the Transitional Justice Institute (TJI) and Prof GrĂĄinne McKeever research on law and social justice. The session concludes with Prof Cath Collins who explains the components of a research proposal.
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In a dawn raid on 18 August 2022, Israeli forces forcibly shut down seven Palestinian human rights groupsâ offices. On 26 August 2022, twenty-four UN appointed human rights experts stated that these forced closures, along with other measures ârestricting the legitimate activities of human rights defenders,â has resulted in âserious infringements of the rights to freedom of association, opinion and expression and the right to participate in public and cultural affairs, which Israel is fully obliged to fulfill, respect and protect.â .
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We are pleased to share this recording of a conversation on the future of the European Social Charter (ESC), the main instrument protecting social rights within the Council of Europe, as well as on its relationship to the European Union.The conversation, organised by ANESC (UK and Ireland) featured two interventions. A first intervention by Prof Aoife Nolan discussed the achievements of the European Social Charter and of its monitoring body (the European Committee of Social Rights (ECSR)), as well as the challenges ahead, with a particular emphasis on the Collective Complaints Mechanism which allows NGOs and unions to address situations of non-conformity to the ECSR, and on the role of civil society in the reporting mechanism of the Charter. A second intervention by Prof Olivier De Schutter explored the relationship of the ESC to the EU. While the EU has adopted the Charter of Fundamental Rights (including a set of social rights and principles) that is binding on the EU institutions and on the EU Member States in the implementation of EU law, and while the EU institutions have endorsed the European Pillar of Social Rights, the relationship of these instruments to the Council of Europeâs Social Charter and, more generally, the role of the ESC in law - and policy-making in the EU remain debated. This event, the European Social Charter at Sixty: Achievements, Challenges and Prospects for the Protection of Social Rights in Europe took place at 10-12 am. Irish Time (CET) - 10th May 2022, chaired by Ms Eleanor Sharpston, a former Advocate General to the Court of Justice of the European Union.
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Human Rights Violations in the context of Militarised Policing in Brazil: The Right to Mental Health June 21st 2022 Parallel event to the UN Human Rights Council, organised by the Maranhense Human Rights Society (SMDH), Ulster University (Northern Ireland), and GoiĂĄs State University (Brazil). The speakers include three mothers whose children were killed by police and who are now campaigning for an end to racist police violence in Brazil and for justice for the families of victims. Attendees who sign up to the event were sent a link to the film âIt Marked My Life a Lotâ (Brazil/UK 2020, 40 minutes) available here https://vimeo.com/720832298 prior to event. The film was produced in collaboration with mothers, teachers, and human rights defenders in Rio's favelas. We also hear from the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to health, Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng, and former UN Special Rapporteurs Dainius Puras and Cristof Heyns. Speakers at the Event: Vanessa Francisco Sales, human rights defender from the AlemĂŁo complex of favelas, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and mother of Agatha Sales killed by police in 2019 Bruna da Silva, human rights defender from the MarĂ© complex of favelas, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and mother of Marcus Vinicius killed by police in 2018. Ana Paula Oliveira, one of the leaders of the movement Mothers of Manguinhos, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and mother of Johnatha killed by police in 2014. SiobhĂĄn Wills, the Director of the Transitional Justice Institute at Ulster University, Northern Ireland, and co-director of the film It Marked My Life a Lot. Diogo Diniz Ribeiro Cabral, human rights defender and lawyer for the Bom Acerto community in Balsas city, MaranhĂŁo, Brazil. Luiz Eduardo Lopes Silva, Professor of History at the Federal University of MaranhĂŁo and member of Maranhense Human Rights Society (SMDH) and the Network of Security Observatories, Brazil. Moderator: Ulisses Terto Neto, law professor at GoiĂĄs State University (Brazil) and research assistant at Ulster University (Northern Ireland).
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Ulster University hosted this webinar with Prof. Alison Brysk on Reproductive Rights at Risk: Gender, Religion and Nationalism in Europe and the Americas. About this event After decades of a "rising tide" of liberal modernization, abortion rights are regressing in many societies shaped by nationalism - even as their religious peers continue to legalize. We will explore the social patterns and political process of the struggle for reproductive rights in Europe and the Americas: Ireland, Poland, Argentina, Brazil and the US. As the US faces the prospect of the loss of national judicial protection for the right to abortion under Roe vs. Wade, how can the lessons of human rights scholarship and comparative experience inform reproductive rights advocacy and mobilization? Biography Alison Brysk, Mellichamp Professor of Global Governance in the Department of Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, is currently Fulbright-Oxford-Pembroke Visiting Professor in Politics and International Relations. Alison is an American political scientist who has authored seven books and edited ten books on international human rights and has been a scholar and lecturer in Argentina, Australia, Ecuador, France, Spain, Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands, South Africa, and Japan. She has also held Fulbright Fellowships in India and Canada and teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on human rights, international relations, civil society, and Latin American politics. TJI Director Prof SiobhĂĄn Wills chaired this event.
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This event, organised by the Gender, Justice and Security Hub, Ulster University and Queen's University of Belfast, explored the current challenges of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda, including women's exclusion from high level negotiations. This event explored these challenges, including womenâs exclusion from high level negotiations around war and peace, though a conversation between three senior women academics and activists with decades of experience in law, politics and the prevention of violence. Professor Christine Chinkin is the former Director of the LSE Centre for Women, Peace and Security, a Global Law Professor at the University of Michigan and a member of the Bar of England and Wales and Matrix Chambers. Professor Monica McWilliams is Emeritus Professor at Ulster Universityâs Transitional Justice Institute and was the Chief Commissioner of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission. Mossarat Qadim is internationally known expert on de-radicalisation, preventing violent extremism (PVE). Chair: Professor Rory OâConnell is Professor of Human Rights and Constitutional Law and Research Director (Law) at Ulster University, Northern Ireland. From 2014-2020 he was the Director of the Transitional Justice Institute.
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Join the mother of the girl Ăgatha, directors of Agora Eu Quero Gritar and representatives of the OAB-RJ and State Council for Human Rights. Event language: Portuguese (Brazil). The directors of the documentary Agora Eu Quero Gritar (Right Now I Want to Scream, Brazil/Undo Kingdom, 2020), Cahal McLaughlin and SiobhĂĄn Wills, invite you to a free webinar with: Rodrigo Mondego, attorney for the Human Rights Commission of the OAB-RJ and vice-president of the State Council for the Defense of Human Rights in Rio de Janeiro; Aderson Bussinger, director of the Documentation and Research Center at OAB-RJ â supporter of this event; Vanessa Sales, mother of girl Ăgatha VitĂłria, killed by police in Rio de Janeiro. More about the documentary here — http://itstayswithyou.com/rio/
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At this TJI public seminar, part of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Festival, Prof Rachel Rebouché discussed the most recent challenges to reproductive rights in the US.
Dean Rebouché shared her thoughts on recent legislation and court cases including cases that are making their way through the court system in the United States, and which may wind up before the Supreme Court of the United States.
Rachel RebouchĂ© is the Interim Dean of Temple University Beasley School of Law and the James E. Beasley Professor of Law. Prior to her appointment as Interim Dean, she was the Associate Dean for Research, a position she held from 2017 to 2021. She is also a Faculty Fellow at Templeâs Center for Public Health Law Research.
Dean RebouchĂ© is a leading scholar in reproductive health law, feminist legal theory, and family law. She is an author of Governance Feminism: An Introduction and an editor of Governance Feminism: Notes from the Field. She is also the editor of Feminist Judgments: Family Law Opinions Rewritten, published by Cambridge University Press, and an author of the sixth edition of the casebook, Family Law, with Professors Leslie Harris and June Carbone. In addition, she is writing a book on reproductive health law that is under contract with NYU Press and editing a collection of essays for Law & Contemporary Problems on the pandemicâs effects on issues in contract law.
Dean Rebouché has served as a co-investigator on two grant-funded research projects related to reproductive health, one housed at the Emory University Rollins School of Public Health and another funded by the World Health Organization. Her recent research also includes articles in law reviews and in peer-reviewed journals on relational contracts, gestational surrogacy, prenatal genetic testing and genetic counseling, collaborative divorce, parental involvement laws, and international reproductive rights.
Dean RebouchĂ© received a J.D. from Harvard Law School, an LL.M. from Queenâs University, Belfast, and a B.A. from Trinity University. Prior to law school, she worked as a researcher for the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission and the Human Rights Centre at Queenâs University, Belfast. After law school, Dean RebouchĂ© clerked for Justice Kate OâRegan on the Constitutional Court of South Africa and practiced law in Washington, D.C., where she served as an associate director of adolescent health programs at the National Partnership for Women & Families (formerly, the Womenâs Legal Defense Fund) and as a Womenâs Law and Public Policy Fellow at the National Womenâs Law Center.
Leah Rea (PhD researcher) and Dr Joanna McMinn will co-chair this event, with Prof SiobhĂĄn Wills (TJI Director) making opening remarks.
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At this seminar, part of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Festival, members of the Constitutional Conversations Group discussed the rights and equality commitments that remain outstanding from the Belfast Good Friday Agreement The seminar features a few short presentations from the group on 'Rights & Wrongs' followed by a Q&A session. Presenters included Eilish Rooney, Mark Bassett, John Gormley, Paddy Kelly and Colin Harvey.
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Professor Monica McWilliams was a founding member of the Womenâs Coalition, a Member of the Legislative Assembly in Northern Ireland and Chief Commissioner of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (2005-2011), Oversight Commissioner for prison reform in Northern Ireland (2011â2015) and is on the Independent Reporting Commission for the disbandment of paramilitary organisations. Monica has been the author of numerous publications, including groundbreaking research on domestic and intimate partner violence in Northern Ireland. She is a specialist in conflict resolution, chaired Interpeace, an international peacebuilding NGO, and served on the Board of Trocaire, the Irish development agency. She has worked with womenâs groups in conflict zones world-wide, most recently with Syrian women involved in the negotiations in Geneva.
Stand Up, Speak Out charts Monicaâs activism over the decades from the civil rights protests in the 1960s to her involvement in the womenâs movement and the founding of the Womenâs Coalition. It also includes her role in the signing and implementation of the Good Friday Agreement. Prof Fidelma Ashe acted as discussant following opening remarks by Prof McWilliams. Our PhD researchers Nada Ahmed Mostafa Kamal Ahmed and Caitriona Mackel co-chaired the event.
This is part of TJIâs âWhatâs the Craic? Seminar Seriesâ organised by our PhD researchers Nada Ahmed Mostafa Kamal Ahmed and Caitriona Mackel.
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TJI was delighted to host this book launch of 'The Law and Practice of Peacekeeping', co-authored by TJI Director Prof Siobhan Wills, Prof Rosa Freedman and Dr Nicholas Lemay-Hebert.
This book presents a multidisciplinary analysis of the controversial UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti. The legacy of this mission includes sexual scandals, the excessive use of force and a cholera outbreak. Prof Nigel White (Nottingham) acts as a discussant for this book launching, and Prof Rory O'Connell is the chair.
More information about the event in the following link: https://www.ulster.ac.uk/transitional-justice-institute/events/book-launch-the-law-and-practice-of-peacekeeping?fbclid=IwAR3UKXc4fmDZyjaxR26p2MXgorUcpCVSROeC9G6mKuolywi4RKGx_fwPQ
Event from the 5th of April 2022
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Ireland has made WPS a key focus of its foreign policy and its tenure on the UN Security Council, including through taking up the role of co-chairing the Independent Expertsâ Group (IEG) on WPS. It does so at a time when the dynamics on the Council present clear obstacles to advancing, and protecting progress on, the WPS agenda. This discussion explored opportunities for Ireland to influence, advance and strengthen the Women, Peace and Security Agenda through a discussion of key country contexts and themes.
Speakers included:
Ăine Hearns, Director of the Conflict Resolution Unit, Irelandâs Dept of Foreign Affairs;
Madeleine Rees, Secretary-General of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF);
Horia Mosadiq, Afghan human rights activist and Executive Director, Conflict Analysis Network;
Assitan Diallo, President of the Association des Femmes Africaines pour la Recherche et le DĂ©veloppement (AFARD) in Mali; and
Linda Cabrera, Director of Sisma Mujer, Colombia.
Dr Salome Mbugua, Commissioner with the Irish Human Rights & Equality Commission and founder of AkiDwA, will chair the event.
The event was organised by the Irish Peace and Conflict Network, which includes the TJI.
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The author Prof Rory O'Connell discusses his new book with Prof Conor Gearty (LSE), Prof Ruth Rubio Marin (Sevilla), to mark the launch of 'Law, Democracy and the European Court of Human Rights' (Cambridge 2020). Dr Catherine O'Rourke (TJI) chairs the discussion. The book is available on the Cambridge webpage and Cambridge has provided an Open Access copy of the conclusion.
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This final panel of the CEDAW and SOGI workshop addressed some cross-cutting issues (conflict, asylum, hate speech) and included final concluding reflections from Marion Bethel, current CEDAW Committee member.
Cross Cutting Issues
Lucia Baca (Colombia Diversa)
Niels-Erik Hansen (Immigration Lawyer)
Kseniya Kirichenko (IGLA-World (International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association))
Concluding Reflections
Marion Bethel (Current Member of the CEDAW Committee)
Womenâs enjoyment of the substantive rights guaranteed under CEDAW â legal equality, nationality, education, employment, health, economic and social life, rurality, family life, political participation â are inextricably informed and shaped in important ways by their sexual orientation and gender identity.
This workshop sought to explore the current and potential activities of the CEDAW Committee on the human rights of lesbian, bisexual and transgender women. It identified strengths in the CEDAW Committeeâs current approach to sexual orientation and gender identity and pinpointed areas for future development. The workshop aimed to make both a theoretical and practical contribution to the interpretation of CEDAW and to the activities of the CEDAW Committee, States, civil society and international organisations.
The workshop was organised by Dr Meghan Campbell (Birmingham University Law School), Dr Loveday Hodson (Leicester University Law School) and Dr Catherine OâRourke (Ulster University Transitional Justice Institute).
The workshop was hosted by the Transitional Justice Institute at Ulster University.
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This panel of the CEDAW and SOGI workshop addressed health and education.
Speakers:
Alexa Moore (Transgender Northern Ireland)
Marisa Hutchinson (International Womenâs Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific (Malaysia / Global South))
Mel Duffy (Dublin City University)
Chair: Meghan Campbell
This workshop sought to explore the current and potential activities of the CEDAW Committee on the human rights of lesbian, bisexual and transgender women. It identified strengths in the CEDAW Committeeâs current approach to sexual orientation and gender identity and pinpoint areas for future development. The workshop aimed to make both a theoretical and practical contribution to the interpretation of CEDAW and to the activities of the CEDAW Committee, States, civil society and international organisations.
The workshop was organised by Dr Meghan Campbell (Birmingham University Law School), Dr Loveday Hodson (Leicester University Law School) and Dr Catherine OâRourke (Ulster University Transitional Justice Institute).
The workshop was hosted by the Transitional Justice Institute at Ulster University.
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This episode continues our workshop on CEDAW and SOGI, with a panel focused on relationships and families.
Speakers:
Danielle Roberts (HereNI)
Imani Kimiri (National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission of Kenya)
Chair: Loveday Hodson (Leicester)
Womenâs enjoyment of the substantive rights guaranteed under CEDAW â legal equality, nationality, education, employment, health, economic and social life, rurality, family life, political participation â are inextricably informed and shaped in important ways by their sexual orientation and gender identity.
This workshop sought to explore the current and potential activities of the CEDAW Committee on the human rights of lesbian, bisexual and transgender women. It identified strengths in the CEDAW Committeeâs current approach to sexual orientation and gender identity and pinpoint areas for future development. The workshop aimed to make both a theoretical and practical contribution to the interpretation of CEDAW and to the activities of the CEDAW Committee, States, civil society and international organisations.
The workshop was organised by Dr Meghan Campbell (Birmingham University Law School), Dr Loveday Hodson (Leicester University Law School) and Dr Catherine OâRourke (Ulster University Transitional Justice Institute).
The workshop is hosted by the Transitional Justice Institute at Ulster University.
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This workshop sought to explore the current and potential activities of the CEDAW Committee on the human rights of lesbian, bisexual and transgender women. It identified strengths in the CEDAW Committeeâs current approach to sexual orientation and gender identity and pinpoint areas for future development. The workshop aimed to make both a theoretical and practical contribution to the interpretation of CEDAW and to the activities of the CEDAW Committee, States, civil society and international organisations.
This opening panel includes keynote addresses from:
Lia Nadaria (Current Member of the CEDAW Committee)
Victor Madrigal-Borloz (UN Independent Expert on sexual orientation and gender identity)
The workshop was organised by Dr Meghan Campbell (Birmingham University Law School), Dr Loveday Hodson (Leicester University Law School) and Dr Catherine OâRourke (Ulster University Transitional Justice Institute).
The workshop is hosted by the Transitional Justice Institute at Ulster University.
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