Seminar

UN SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON MINORITY ISSUES

Professor Fernand de Varennes

Adjunct Professor of Human Rights, Irish Centre for Human Rights, NUI Galway

‘MIGRATION, LANGUAGE AND HUMAN RIGHTS’

Tuesday 21 January 12-1pm

Seminar Room, Irish Centre for Human Rights

About the speaker

Fernand de Varennes is Extraordinary Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Pretoria (South Africa), Adjunct Professor at the National University of Ireland-Galway (Ireland), and Cheng Yu Tung Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Hong Kong (China). He was appointed United Nations Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues by the Human Rights Council and assumed his functions on 1 August 2017.

Fernand de Varennes’ work and commitment focusses on the human rights of minorities, as well as the prevention of ethnic conflicts, the rights of migrants, the relationship between ethnicity, human rights and democracies, and the use of federalism and other forms of autonomy arrangements to balance competing cultural interests.

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