Workshop on Human Rights and Contested Agency

There is a lack of understanding of how agency is currently conceptualised and what it actually constitutes in the operationalisation of international human rights instruments. A recent Workshop addressed this issue.

Hoko Horii • October 31, 2022

Will the real you please stand up!

Everywhere collective identities are struggling with other identities. They are mere substitutes, however, for the personal identity we are born with – whose development is justly protected as a human right and is the antidote to the crises facing us.

Wim Bonis • December 14, 2016 • 1 comment

Freedom – finding a home for us all

When Leiden University was founded, freedom meant non-interference by authorities. In the 1960s it was expanded inwardly to living authentic lives. And amidst a mass immigration of boat refugees, the West is still struggling to fully realize its freedom.

Wim Bonis • June 10, 2015 • 1 comment

An Embedded Freedom of Speech

The terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo has put the freedom of speech back on the agenda. If we are serious about creating a world in which there is room for everybody, we have to rethink the content of this human right, so that it can help us forward.

Wim Bonis • January 21, 2015 • 1 comment

‘Lure Jews’, Nazi salute and the limits of criminal law

Teaching the Holocaust? Or how to prevent young immigrants bringing a Nazi salute in 21st century multicultural Amsterdam.

Jeroen ten Voorde • April 11, 2012 • 3 comments

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Workshop on Human Rights and Contested Agency

Will the real you please stand up!

Freedom – finding a home for us all

An Embedded Freedom of Speech

‘Lure Jews’, Nazi salute and the limits of criminal law