Audacity is success — not guaranteed but if you don’t try it you lost already. The current US-president is following this line and now claims the nobel prize for peace. Ridiculous, bold, naive … — there are many possible interpretations. However, one that is frequently employed is completely missing the point: that there is just … Read more
YouTube video On July 25, 2025, the HRUG regular seminar on “Women’s Health Care in the Digital Age” was successfully held. The seminar was lectured by Zhao Yue, a Privatdozent at the Medical Faculty of the University of Cologne, Germany, and chaired by Joe Finnerty, a Policy Analyst at the School of Applied Social Studies, … Read more
Youtube vedio On June 27, 2025, the HRUG regular seminar on “Systemic Challenges on Global Governance in 2025 and beyond” was successfully held. This seminar mainly focused on technological disruption, regional conflicts and trade frictions in global governance and their profound impacts on the international human rights protection system. The seminar was presented by Associate … Read more
The next Open Talk is scheduled for the 26th of September, 13:00 hrs (Amsterdam …) Dr. Guo Min from the Law School at Central South University, Changsha, will give an input on the topic Legal Progress Without Judicial Change? Understanding the Limits of Workplace Sexual Harassment Protections in China Abstract: China has made notable legal … Read more
The war in Ukraine is assessed in different ways, and the following will not engage with this. However, it seems that we are now facing a real escalation – after the • Trump-Putin-, • Trump-Zelens’kyj- and • Trump-European Heads of State-meetings. Before looking at this question, it must be stated that we are dealing in … Read more
It seems to be a small thing – and it also seems to not relevant when discussing fundamental rights, in particular the right to access education. But a closer look, crossing the borders of the sandboxes that serve as building blocks of modern societies, reveals a somewhat mysterious picture of today’s bogus existence: The first … Read more
It is ‘only’ an Advisory Opinion, and the topic is not really new on the agenda. However, we should say that with the decision the Court took on Wednesday, the 23rd of July is in fact a breakthrough. It raises the issue of human rights to a new level: It is justified to see in the … Read more
One may have hoped that the election of Trump and the ‘in(ter)vention’ of another industrialist/businessperson[1] as politician was a highlight of political aberration and confusion, with a foreseeable end and a return to reason. Hope dies last, but it is probably time to lay it to rest. The German poet and perhaps polymath Goethe comes to … Read more
Invitation to the upcoming HRUG-OPEN TALK “ Women’s Healthcare in Digital Age” Presentation by Priv. Doz. Dr. Yue Zhao, Surgical Research Laboratory, Department of General, Visceral, Thoracic and Transplantation Surgery, University Hospital Cologne, Medical Faculty, University of Cologne, followed by discussion Moderator Joe Finnerty, University College Cork 25.7.2025, 13:00 hrs CEST– via VOOV: Click the link … Read more