1,182 search results for “international human rights” in the Staff website
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Leiden University supports the Caribbean Center for Children’s Rights
Prof. Ton Liefaard and Chrisje Sandelowsky-Bosman visited Curaçao to launch de Caribbean Center for Children’s Rights and present research.
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Rights of undocumented children in Curaçao severely under threat
Research conducted by the University of Leiden and the University of Curaçao found that the rights of undocumented children in Curaçao, mostly from Venezuela, are severely under threat, which does not trigger rigorous actions by the Curaçaoan and Dutch authorities.
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Islands show human influence on nature
What is the impact of humans on nature? In Science an article appeared in which researchers try to give an answer to that question. Biogeographer and postdoc at LUCL Sietze Norder is one of its authors.
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Apply for the Frontier of Children's Rights Summer School
Education
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Construction of alternative Humanities Campus is feasible
Facility
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Minister awards funding for Humanities sector plan
Organisation
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Leiden archaeologists mentioned in Top 13 Discoveries in Human Evolution during 2023
In a recent article published on PLOS, Drs. Briana Pobiner and Ryan McRae of the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History discuss the top 13 discoveries in human evolution in 2023.
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The Role of Humans in Surgery Automation
Eduard Fosch-Villaronga, Hadassah Drukarch and Bart Custers from eLaw - Center for Law and Digital Technologies, explore together with Pranav Khanna, eLaw alumnus, the influence of automation on human–robot interaction and responsibility in surgery innovation.
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Mirjam Sombroek-van Doorm
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
m.p.sombroek@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Willemien den Ouden
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
w.denouden@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 --
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AI & Humanities: ‘So much untapped potential’
The field of artificial intelligence has developed rapidly in recent years. We spoke with Stephan Raaijmakers, professor by special appointment in Communicative AI, about the impact of artificial intelligence and why everyone should pay more attention to developments in this field.
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Going forward with an alternative Humanities Campus
In the past months of the coronavirus crisis, work continued steadily on constructing the Humanities Campus. The Arsenaal has been completed. Colleagues have moved to the Reuvens and Huizinga buildings, and the South Cluster is ready for the renovation to start. And now we have suddenly had to stop.
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Interview Ilya Kokorin – ‘Hup, Holland Hup, wasn’t the right answer’
Doing a PhD can be challenging. Moving to a foreign country can be challenging too. PhD candidate Ilya Kokorin, who was born in a small town in Siberia, faced both, while at the same time having to overcome a number of additional challenges and build a future post-PhD.
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New elections student section Humanities Faculty Council
Organisation
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A piece of rubber can't count. Right?
Martin van Hecke and Lennard Kwakernaak (Leiden university and AMOLF) develop a mechanical metamterial that can count to ten in their research.
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Call: collaboration between humanities and regenerative medicine
Research
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NWO grant for four humanities projects
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has granted four grants to Leiden humanities scholars. They get to spend this money on research on a topic of their choice, without thematic preconditions.
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The parallels between quarrelling animals and humans
The journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society – Biological Sciences published its theme issue ‘Conflict across taxa’ on 4 April, which was edited by Professor of Social and Organisational Psychology Carsten de Dreu. Together with researchers from other disciplines he provides more insight…
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Bart Schermer about attack on citizens' right to demonstrate
Media outlets Investico, de Groene Amsterdammer and Trouw reported on the wide-scale collection by the Dutch police of personal data of demonstrators and their family members. Bart Schermer, Professor of Privacy and Cybercrime, commented on the issue.
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Simone van der Hof in podcast on GDPR and children’s rights
In a podcast of the Netherlands Internet Governance Forum (NL GF) and the Safer Internet Centre Nederland, Simone van der Hof, Professor of Law and Digital Technologies at Leiden University and Thijs Hannema, a lawyer at Kennedy van der Laan, discuss online privacy of children.
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Beyond plastic: why humanities scholars study waste
In a new series of articles, we explore how the humanities study topics related to sustainability. First up: waste. How and why study waste as a humanities scholar? We asked Elena Burgos Martinez, University Lecturer South and Southeast Asian Studies, and Katarzyna Cwiertka, Professor of Modern Japan…
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Faculty of Humanities joins 'Hidden Disabilities Sunflower'
A hidden disability can make studying a considerable challenge, partly because of the disability itself, but also because others may not realise that extra support is justified. To overcome this problem, the Faculty of Humanities is introducing the Hidden Disabilities Sunflower.
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Jelly Reinders new head OSZ Humanities
On 1 August, Jelly Reinders was appointed head of the Education and Student Affairs (OSZ) department at the Faculty of Humanities. ‘It's a wonderful continuation of my career after some fantastic and interesting years at VU University Amsterdam.'
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College or university? Computer science students in the right place
The right student in the right place. That is what LIACS program director Frank Takes and education coordinator Joyce Glerum are aiming to do with the ‘Wisselstroom’ project. By next year, they hope to have a standardized protocol that will make it easier for computer science students to transfer from…
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EUniWell Open lectures series | European standards of Human Rights protection of displaced persons fleeing armed conflicts
Lecture, Part of a series
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They came, they saw, they left: on the first humans in the Low Countries
Over hundreds of thousands of years, our region witnessed the comings and goings of various types of hominin. This depended on the temperature as ice ages alternated with warmer periods. In ‘De eerste mensen in de Lage Landen’ (‘The First Humans in the Low Countries’) Leiden archaeologists Yannick Raczynski-Henk…
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Gianclaudio Malgieri at the Privacy Symposium 2024 in Venice
Gianclaudio Malgieri, Associate Professor of Law at Technology at eLaw, was invited to speak at the third edition of the prestigious 'Privacy Symposium' in Venice on 11 June 2024.
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Andrea Waters
Faculteit Archeologie
a.l.waters@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Nathalie Brusgaard
Faculteit Archeologie
n.o.brusgaard@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 6048
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Andries Hiskes
Faculty of Humanities
a.r.hiskes@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Gerard Persoon
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
persoonga@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3451
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Fenneke Sysling
Faculty of Humanities
f.h.sysling@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2737
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Ton Dietz
Afrika-Studiecentrum
a.j.dietz@asc.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Maria Yazdanbakhsh
Faculteit Geneeskunde
m.yazdanbakhsh@lumc.nl | +31 71 526 5067
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Marie Schwed Shenker
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
m.schwed.shenker@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Michaël Peyrot
Faculty of Humanities
m.peyrot@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4177
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Johannes Müller
Faculty of Humanities
j.m.muller@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2193
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Ramira van der Meulen
Science
a.van.der.meulen@liacs.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Ian Simpson
Faculteit Archeologie
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Sandrine Gallois
Faculteit Archeologie
s.l.gallois@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 6086
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Carina van den Hoven
Faculty of Humanities
c.van.den.hoven@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2036
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Isabel Hoving
Faculty of Humanities
i.hoving@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Francesco Walker
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
f.walker@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Merel Spithoven
Faculteit Archeologie
m.spithoven@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Jaap van den Herik
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Ann Marie Wilson
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
a.m.wilson@luc.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9355
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Athanasios Moraitis
Science
a.moraitis@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 6 2220 0860
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Miguel John Versluys
Faculteit Archeologie
m.j.versluys@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2438
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Karel Kuipers
Faculteit Archeologie
k.j.kuipers@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Florian Schneider
Faculty of Humanities
f.a.schneider@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2544