About the AHRI Network

The Association of Human Rights Institutes (AHRI) is a network of over 80 member institutions that carries out research and educational activities in the field of human rights.

The Association of Human Rights Institutes (AHRI), is a network of over 80 (and growing) member institutes that carries out research and educational activities in the field of human rights. The member institutes are from over 30 different countries spanning all continents. AHRI’s objective is to bring together human rights researchers from across the disciplines, to facilitate the exchange of ideas and collaboration, and to promote research, education and discussion in the field of human rights. AHRI is supportive of PhD researchers and the facilitation of exchange between the different member institutes.

AHRI Co-operation Agreement

The AHRI Co-operation Agreement (pdf) was signed in Reykjavik 22 September 2000. Bjarney Friðriksdóttir, former Director of the Icelandic Human Rights Center, was elected as AHRI’s first Chair. The Netherlands Institute of Human Rights accepted to host the Secretariat with Peter Malcontent as Executive Secretary.

The Constitution for the Association of Human Rights Institutes (AHRI) was amended by the AHRI Assembly 21 September 2015.

Secretariat

Chair, Dr. Kasey McCall-Smith, The Global Justice Academy, University of Edinburgh.
Executive Secretary, Dr. Elaine Webster, Centre for the Study of Human Rights Law, University of Strathclyde. 

Executive Committee

The member institutes of the Executive Committee are elected in staggered three-year periods and their designated representatives act on behalf of the institutes while on the committee. The current Executive Committee includes:

The Current Executive Committee includes: 
Founding history

AHRI was established in 2000 at a founding meeting in Iceland hosted by the Icelandic Human Rights Centre. All active European academic human rights institutes were invited to join and the following founding members met in Iceland: 

  • Norwegian Centre for Human Rights (NCHR), Faculty of Law, University of Oslo 
  • Institute for Human Rights at Åbo Akademi University 
  • Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law 
  • Danish Institute for Human Rights 
  • Icelandic Human Rights Center 
  • Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM) 
  • Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights 

Website

For further information and news about AHRI please visit the AHRI website
www.ahri-network.org.

Important Dates
Conference Duration
1 September 2022 09:00 - 3 September 2022 17:00
Registration
31 March 2022 - 3 September 2022 [CLOSED]
AHRI 2022: Conference of the Association of Human Rights Institutes (AHRI)
Organiser
Name
Prof Magnus Killander
Contact Email
[email protected]
Contact Number
(+27) 0124205407