The European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation (EIUC) has opened the enrollment period for the Venice Academy of Human Rights.

The Venice Academy of Human Rights, from 6 till 15 July, is an international and interdisciplinary programme of excellence for human rights education, research and debate. It provides an enriching forum for emerging ideas, practices and policy options in the field of human rights. The Academy hosts distinguished experts to promote critical and useful research and innovation through the exchange of current knowledge.

Its international faculty includes prestigious lectures in human rights, such as Porf. Føllesdal, Prof. Will Kymlicka, the Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy in the Philosophy Department at Queen’s University or Albie Sachs, activist and former judge on the Constitutional Court of South Africa under appointment by Nelson Mandela.

For more information, visit http://www.eiuc.org/research/venice-academy-of-human-rights.html.