HRIC

Centre information

• About the Centre
• About the staff
• Contact HRIC
• Opportunities for students
• Publications

Themes

• African Human Rights System
• Implementation
• National human rights institutions
• Torture prevention and OPCAT

Projects

• Article 5 Initiative
• Online Short Courses
• OPCAT project
• Soft Law/RIG project

Activities

• Press releases
• Visiting staff

Resources and References

• Expert advice by HRIC
• Humanrightsvisits.org
• Selected bibliographies
• UK NPM database

Visiting staff

The Human Rights Implementation Centre is honoured to host a number of Visiting Staff who are renowned experts in their field.

Name	Position
Dr Silvia Casale	Visiting Professor
Professor Renate Kicker	Visiting Professor
Professor Rod Morgan	Visiting Fellow
Antenor Hallo de Wolf	Visiting Fellow
Maggie Beirne	Visiting Fellow
Claudine Haenni Dale	Visiting Fellow
Mary Murphy	Visiting Fellow
Dr Christine Reynolds	Visiting Fellow
Elizabeth Mottershaw	Visiting Fellow
Jonathan Cooper	Visiting Fellow
Ben Kioko	Visiting Fellow

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Visiting Staff Seminar Series

Spring Term 2013

During the Spring term of 2013, the Human Rights Implementation Centre welcomed guest speakers from our visiting staff to give the following talks:

• Antenor Hallo de Wolf, Regulation of essential services and human rights implementation.  23 January

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• Audrey Olivier, Enhancing dignity in detention. The Optional Protocol to the UN Convention against Torture, an example a successful advocacy campaign. 5 February

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Autumn Term 2012

• Mary Murphy and Mona Sadek, ICRC - Humanitarian and Human: Making the standards work for detainee.  29 October

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• Rod Morgan, Reluctant Expert: providing Article 3-related evidence in extradition proceedings.   6November

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• Maggie Beirne, Putting human rights into practice at the domestic level, using the case-study of Northern Ireland.  21 November

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Spring Term 2012

• Femke Hofstee-van der Meulen, Foreign national prisoners  28 February

• Presentation (PDF) - audio recording

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• Claudine Haenni Dale, Internal Displacement and Migration in the context of climate change – protection challenges.  1 February

• Presentation (PDF)

• OCHA Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement (United Nations, 2001) (PDF)

• Report of the Representative of the Secretary-General on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons, Walter Kälin, Protection of Internally Displaced persons in Situations of Natural Disasters (United Nations, 2009) (PDF)

• Walter Kälin and Claudine Haenni Dale, Disaster risk mitigation – why human rights matter Forced Migration Review (2008) 31:38 (PDF)

• IASC Operational Guidelines on the Protection of Persons in Situations of Natural Disasters, The Brookings – Bern Project on Internal Displacement (January 2011)

• UNHCR, Climate change, natural disasters and human displacement: a UNHCR perspective (August 2009)

• IASC Framework on Durable Solutions for Internally Displaced Persons, The Brookings Institution – University of Bern Project on Internal Displacement (April 2010)

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• Dr Silvia Casale, Deprivation of liberty and counter terrorism.   4 March

• Presentation (PDF)

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• Antenor Hallo de Wolf, The regulatory autonomy of the State when privatizing state and public functions or services and its impact on the implementation of human rights.  8March

• Presentation (PDF)

• Podcast (MP3, 52:10)

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• Maggie Beirne, The front line of human rights defence: a Northern Ireland case-study.  23 March

• Presentation (PDF)

• Assessing Damage, Urging Action - Report of the Eminent Jurists Panel on terrorism, counter-terrorism and human rights - Executive Summary (PDF)

• Committee on the Administration of Justice, War on Terror: Lessons from Northern Ireland, January 2008 - Executive Summary (PDF)

• Committee on the Administration of Justice, War on Terror: Lessons from Northern Ireland, January 2008 (PDF)

• A New Beginning: Policing in Northern Ireland - The Report of the Independent Commission on Policing in Northern Ireland [Patten Report], September 1999. (PDF)

• Maggie Beirne & Martin O’Brien, 'The Perception of Policing Change from the Perspective of Human Rights NGOs', Ch.11 in John Doyle (2010) Policing the Narrow Ground: Lessons from the Transformation of Policing in Northern Ireland, Royal Irish Academy.

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  Mary Murphy, From the UN Standard Minimum Rules of 1955 to the Bangkok Rules of 2010: Narrowing the gap of negligence in relation to women in the criminal justice system.   29 March

• The United Nations Rules for the Treatment of Women Prisoners and Non-custodial Measures for Women Offenders (the Bangkok Rules) of 2010

• Commentary of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) on the UN guidelines for the treatment of detained women adopted in December 2010 as the Bangkok Rules

• Penal Reform International (PRI) and Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO) introduction to the Bangkok Rules

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• Renate Kicker, The European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT): Standard-setting through monitoring. 8 April

• CPT Bristol Presentation 2011 (PDF)

• CPT standards Bristol Presentation (PDF)

• The CPT Standards

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Spring Term 2011

The Human Rights Implementation Centre (HRIC) is honoured to have a pool of human rights experts among its Visiting Staff. During spring 2011 these experts will come to Bristol to give talks in the context of the of HRIC Visiting Staff Seminar Series.

Venue: Social Science and Law Faculty Boardroom, First Floor, 2 Priory Road, Bristol

The Seminar Series will be open to everyone interested.  However, due to the capacity of the venue, those wishing to attend must email Cecilia Smith with the date and title of the seminar they wish to attend.  The Seminar Series will take place according to the following schedule:

 

• Claudine Haenni Dale Internal Displacement and Migration in the context of climate change – protection challenges       1 February
• Silvia Casale Deprivation of liberty and counter terrorism: safeguarding human rights of people held in connection with terrorism  4 March
• Antenor Hallo de Wolf The regulatory autonomy of the State when privatizing state and public functions or services and its impact on the implementation of human rights  8 March
• Maggie Beirne The front line of human rights defence: a Northern Ireland case-study  23 March
• Mary Murphy From the UN Standard Minimum Rules of 1955 to the Bangkok rules of 2010: Narrowing the gap of negligence in relation to women in the criminal justice system  29 March
• Renate Kicker The European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT): Standard-setting through monitoring        8 April