1,030 search results for “refugee convention” in the Public website
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Five LL.M students attended the 2016 Norbert Schmelzer lecture given by Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker
On Thursday 3rd of March 2016 the 14th Norbert Schmelzer, organized annually by the CDA party, took place in the Hague. This year the lecture was given by Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker.
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Peter Rodrigues on reform scenarios for EU Migration and asylum policy
Rodrigues participated last year at the 13th Network Europe Conference on 'European Integration Perspectives in Times of Global Crisis', organised by the Europa Institute Zurich (EIZ).
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Melanie Fink speaks at ELENA Course in Sevilla
On 9 November 2019 Melanie Fink, researcher at the Europa Institute, delivered a key note lecture at this year’s Advanced ELENA Course.
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Melanie Fink speaks on the accountability of Frontex at the University of Oxford
On 10 November 2018 Melanie Fink, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Europa Institute, spoke at the Workshop ‘Accountability for Human Rights Violations in Migration Control: New Frontiers of Individual and Organisational Responsibility’.
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Jorrit Rijpma appeared before the European Parliament’s Working Group on Frontex Scrutiny
On Friday 23 April, Jorrit Rijpma appeared before the European Parliament’s Working Group on Frontex Scrutiny. This working group was set up by the Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) in response to allegations of serious fundamental rights violations taking place…
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Delegation of Leiden Law School visits Tirana
This summer, a delegation of Leiden Law School composed of Prof. Rick Lawson, Prof. Stefaan Van den Bogaert and Dr. Darinka Piqani visited Tirana (Albania).
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Material constraints of selected energy pathways
Examining if large scale application of new energy pathways can be constrained by materials and emissions.
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Decent Flexibility
On Thursday 8 December, Fred van Haasteren has defended his doctoral thesis ‘Fatsoenlijke flexibiliteit – De invloed van ILO-conventie 181 en de regelgeving omtrent uitzendarbeid’ (Decent flexibility - The influence of ILO Convention 181 and legislation on temporary agency work) at the Academy Building…
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Moritz Jesse gives lecture On Asylum and Migration in Greece
Dr. Moritz Jesse, Associate Professor European Law at the Europa Institute, gave a lecture about Migration and Asylum on Thursday 22 February 2018.
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Evaluation of the Law Ombudsperson for Children
To what extent does the Law Ombudsperson for Children achieve its goals as intended by the legislator when introducing the law?
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Language Foundation Programme Leiden - The Hague
Preparatory year Leiden
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The Meeting Point
Assistance for refugee students, first-generation students, and students from Suriname and the Caribbean region of The Netherlands.
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Database of Business Ethics
For many years, human rights have been considered a playing field in which states were the most important actors. It is they who in multilateral relations, such as the United Nations (UN), the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and the International Labour Organisation (ILO), have written international…
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Get sponsors
We are running to support the UAF: a foundation for refugee students. Some teams have already started to find sponsors and have already collected nice donations. Help as well and ask people to sponsor you via your donation page at geef.nl.
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Gender, Migration and Categorisation: Making Distinctions between Migrants in Western Countries, 1945-2010
This volume is pubished in the IMISCOE-AUP Series and edited by Marlou Schrover and Deirdre M. Moloney.
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‘Meeting Point is my GPS’
From help with filling in complex forms to a buddy who will introduce you to student life. The Meeting Point for refugee students meets many needs. This was the finding of experienced experts at the symposium in honour of the one-year anniversary of the Meeting Point.
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Overcoming ruptures: Zande identity, governance, and tradition during cycles of war and displacement in South Sudan and Uganda (2014-2019)
On 1 June 2022, Bruno Braak defended his thesis entitled 'Overcoming ruptures: Zande identity, governance, and tradition during cycles of war and displacement in South Sudan and Uganda (2014-2019).' The doctoral research was supervised by Prof.dr. J.M. Otto, Dr.ir. C.I.M. Jacobs, and Dr. C. Leonardi…
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Research
The focus of the research at the Department of Civil Law is the coherency of private law in national, European and global perspective.
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Insights from scanning tunneling microscopy experiments into correlated electron systems
This thesis presents insights from our study of various correlated electron systems with a scanning tunneling microscope (STM). In ordinary metals, electron-electron interactions exist, but get substantially screened due to the sheer number of electrons.
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A completely normal practice
In Bronze Age Europe, an enormous amount of metalwork was buried in the ground and never retrieved.
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Gender equality, cybersecurity, and security sector governance
In this article, James Shires and Tatiana Tropina, assistant professors at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs, map the relationship between gender equality and cybersecurity governance as a component of good security sector governance (SSG). Here, it highlights the way in which cybersecurity…
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Minipigs as an Animal Model for Dermal Vaccine Delivery
Appropriate animal models for intradermal vaccine delivery are scarce. Given the high similarity of their skin anatomy to that of humans, minipigs may be a suitable model for dermal vaccine delivery.
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The Modern Arabic Book: Design as Agent of Cultural Progress
Huda Abi-Fares defended her thesis on 10 January 2017.
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Real-time tomographic reconstruction
With tomography it is possible to reconstruct the interior of an object without destroying.
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Children's Rights Monitor 2015
The Children’s Rights Monitor provides a thematic overview of the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in the Netherlands.
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Landscape Protection in International Law
Amy Strecker assesses the institutional framework for landscape protection, analyses the interplay between landscape and human rights, and links the etymology and theory of landscape with its articulation in law.
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eV-TEM: Transmission Electron Microscopy with few-eV Electrons
Electron microscopy has become an extremely important techniquein a wide variety of elds.
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About the programme
Find out more about the programme International Children's Rights. We teach you to respond to (inter)national legal developments in relation to children.
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Online Course De-Mystifying Mindfulness
Around the world, mindfulness has become big business. This course combines conventional scholarly inquiry from multiple disciplines with experiential learning to provide a responsible, comprehensive, and inclusive education about mindfulness as a contemporary phenomenon.
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CPP Annual Lecture 'Refugees and the Politics of Inhumanitarianism'
Lecture
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Moritz Jesse at World Conference of the Association for the Study of Nationalities in New York
Dr. Moritz Jesse, associate professor of European Union Law at the Europa Institute Leiden, addressed the members and audience of the panel “Citizenship and the Refugee Crisis” at the World Conference of the Association for the Study of Nationalities in New York, which took place at Columbia University,…
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The Impact of Name Writing on Early Literacy
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Painting and Response in Sixteenth-Century Venice
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Towards controlled microneedle-mediated intradermal immunization
Traditionally, vaccines are administered intramuscularly using conventional hypodermic needles, which cause pain and distress. Microneedles are very short needles (smaller than 1 mm) that are practically invisible to the naked eye.
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Residence in Tax Treaties
On Thursday 1 December 2016 at 13.45 hrs, Francisco Sepulveda Ramirez will defend his doctoral thesis ‘Residence in Tax Treaties' at the Academy Building of Leiden University. Supervisor is Professor F.A. Engelen.
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Solid Bioneedle-Delivered Influenza Vaccines Are Highly Thermostable and Induce Both Humoral and Cellular Immune Responses
The potential of bioneedles to deliver influenza vaccines was investigated.
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The quantum computer
The worldwide race to the quantum computer is in full swing. This computer can take on computing tasks that we can only dream of today, such as finding proteins that can be used as medicines in seconds flat. Leiden physicists have discovered how the Majorana particle can be used as a building block…
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Jorrit Rijpma speaks at the Odysseus Network Conference in Brussels
On Friday 10 February, the annual Odysseus conference on migration and asylum law was held at the European Commission.
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Common Fall Lecture of the Regular and Advanced PIL LL.M. Programs and the Opening Lecture of the 2016/2017 IHL Lecture
IHL and Humanitarian Assistance in Contemporary Armed Conflicts against the Background of the Current Refugee Crisis
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Two Presentations by Moritz Jesse at annual ECPR 2017 Conference in Oslo
Dr. Moritz Jesse, Associate Professor at the Europa Institute, presented two papers at the General Conference of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) which took place in Oslo, Norway, in September 2017.
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Opening Academic Year 2016-2017
The opening of the Academic Year 2016-2017 took place on Monday 5 September 2016 in Pieterskerk church.
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Towards nano-MRI
By detecting the tiny forces between a micrometer sized magnet and the spins of hydrogen nuclei, we can do MRI with a volume resolution that is approximately 12 orders of magnitude better than a conventional MRI.
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AMT Network
Below you can find an overview of our network.
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Serious Games
The Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs of Leiden University in The Hague has developed two Serious Games, 'het Grote Migratiespel' and 'het Schipholspel' to introduce secondary school students to their study and research programmes.
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Can the ongoing asylum debate be classified as a crisis situation?
The political parties in the running to form a Dutch cabinet are looking into solutions to curb the influx of refugees. The plan is to designate refugee accommodation as a crisis. But is it as simple as that? Mark Klaassen, Assistant Professor in European law, discusses this on Dutch current affairs…
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Cultural framing of rights and subjectivities
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Articulating Modernity: The Making of Popular Music in 20th Century Southeast Asia and the Rise of New Audiences.
Who were the main artists and producers who generated new forms of popular music? What was the music like that was produced by artists in particular urban settings? How were particular lifestyles articulated to identify new audiences and what does this reveal about the way popular music contributed…
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Carbon4PUR | Turning industrial waste gases (mixed CO/CO2 streams) into intermediates for polyurethane plastics for rigid foams/building insulation
What would be the environmental performance of the Carbon4PUR technology at industrial scale in the future?
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Klankwerelden - The 20th century of Reinbert de Leeuw
Worlds of sound is important for everyone who is interested in listening to music of the 20th century or for anyone involved in studying or performing contemporary music. The central question is how to interpret music in case the performer is not willing to depend on personal taste or conventions.