The Human Rights, Migration and Globalization Summer School 2013, 8 - 12 July, Galway

The Irish Centre for Human Rights, NUI Galway, summer school will familiarise participants with the sources of migrants’ rights and the available protection mechanisms. It will provide participants with an understanding of the major tensions underlying the issue of the protection of migrants’ rights and of how globalisation shapes these tensions. During the five days of intensive sessions provided by leading experts in the area, participants will be provided with a detailed working knowledge of the issues through presentations, readings and group discussions, which will include components on research and advocacy skills. The programme will include a variety of social activities that will allow participants to network with each other and the panel of specialists in a relaxed and friendly environment. The summer school is open to anyone interested in the contemporary challenges of migration and human rights protection, including practitioners, journalists, NGO representatives, government officials and students. Participants are invited, but not obliged, to submit an abstract proposing their research ideas for discussion.

Confirmed speakers for this inaugural year’s summer school include:

• Professor Francois Crépeau, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants
• Professor Tomoya Obokata, Professor of International Law and Human Rights, Keele University, School of Law
• Ms. Mariette Grange, Senior Researcher at the Global Detention Project of the Program for the Study of Global Migration at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
• Ms. Siobhán O’Donoghue, Director of the Migrant Rights Centre Ireland
• Ms. Maria Stavropoulou, Director of the Greek Asylum Service
• Dr. Ekaterina Yahyaoui, Lecturer and LLM Director, The Irish Centre for Human Rights
• Dr. Noelle Higgins, Lecturer in Human Rights, The Irish Centre for Human Rights

Click here for more information, including details on how to register and how to submit an abstract, please visit our website at or email: hrandmigrationsummerschool@gmail.com.