Human Rights

Bryan Stevenson – US public interest lawyer and best-selling author of ‘Just Mercy’ – will join The PILS Project for a conversation as part of Féile an Phobail 2021.

A reflective event marking the 40th anniversary of human rights NGO, CAJ. Featuring South African activist Albie Sachs as guest speaker.

Seventh in a series of webinars examining human rights issues that have been brought into sharp focus by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Launch of the ‘Post-Brexit Citizenship Status: Divided by the Rules?’ conference report and discussion of the ‘Manifesto for a Rights Based Return to Power Sharing’, featuring a keynote address from Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Tony Lloyd MP.

An in-person seminar exploring how human rights have progressed in Northern Ireland since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement.

A hybrid seminar exploring combatting impunity, both internationally and locally, on the fiftieth anniversary of the 1973 coup in Chile, which installed the dictatorship of General Pinochet. Pinochet’s brutal regime strove to provide impunity for human rights violations – most notably bringing in the 1978 Amnesty Act that is generally regarded as one of the most egregious examples of amnesties for the purpose of impunity.

Public Interest Litigation on the Intersections between Human Rights and Climate Justice: how pro bono lawyers make a difference

Mike Nesbitt MLA and Colin McGrath MLA invite you to the launch of Sectarianism: The Key Facts, a framework report on tackling institutional sectarianism in Northern Ireland.

Join us for this one day hybrid conference as we launch our collaborative report on immigration policy in NI

Join The PILS Project and Arthur Cox Belfast at The MAC for the launch of five new legal information guides.

The Commission invites you to the launch of our 2018 Annual Statement, with guest speaker Lord Duncan of Springbank.

One World Festival is back for 2021, with events taking place from 11th - 15th October online and in-person! See all our events at the link below.

One World Festival is back! From the 12th - 18th October you can discover new perspectives, explore global issues with (mostly) online, streamed and interactive events. Find out more and book now at oneworldfestivalni.com

As part of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Festival 2018, the Equality Coalition invite to you to a panel discussion on the increasingly hostile environment faced by human rights defenders.

This one-day conference from BrexitLawNI and the Equality Coalition will examine the risks of hardened entitlement boundaries between different groups of citizens in post-Brexit Northern Ireland.

A seminar on the misogyny aggravator model developed by the Working Group on Misogyny and Criminal Justice in Scotland.

A joint seminar from ICCL and CAJ to reflect on policing reform on the island of Ireland, featuring a range of expert speakers.