Friday, April 29th, 2011 A Human Right under Pressure: Recent Debates on Freedom of Religion or Belief

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Friday, April 29, 20116:00PM - 8:30PMThe Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility, 'Munk School for Global Affairs - 1 Devonshire Place

Description

Heiner Bielefeldt (PhD, University of Tubingen, 1989) is Professor of Human Rights and Human Rights Politics at the University of Erlangen-Nurnberg. In August 2010 he assumed his mandate as Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief of the United Nations. From 2003 to 2009 he was Director of Germany’s National Human Rights Institution. Mr. Bielefeldt’s research interests include various interdisciplinary facets of human rights theory and practice, with a focus on freedom of religion or belief.


Speakers

Joseph Carens
Discussant
Department of Political Science, University of Toronto

Matthias Koenig
Chair
Hannah Arendt Visiting Professor for German and European Studies (DAAD), University of Toronto and University of Göttingen

Heiner Bielefeldt
Keynote
UN Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Religion or Belief


Co-Sponsors

Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies

Friedrich Ebert Stiftung

Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst

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