Marking the 70 years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Trends and Perspectives
The Human Rights Programme, in collaboration with the President’s Foundation for the Wellbeing of Society, will be organizing its annual conference to commemorate the 70th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on Friday 7 December 2018.
The Human Rights Programme is pleased to announce that it will be instituting an annual Human Rights Award to be presented for the first time at this conference. The award:
- Will be given for an academic work displaying scientific rigour authored over the last five years which inspires better understanding, diffusion or implementation of fundamental human rights and which has particular relevance to human rights scholarship in Malta.
- Is an academic and interdisciplinary one granted to the author/s of what the Programme’s independent adjudicative panel considers to be the best text relevant to Human Rights from among the texts which are submitted for its consideration
- May be applied for by submitting a ‘text’ which, in terms of the above paragraph, includes dissertations, books and academic articles, chapters in books, and essays, whether published or still awaiting publication at the time of adjudication.
The recipient/s of the award will receive a certificate, a momento and will be invited to give a public lecture during the following year. The runner-up will receive a certificate.
Entries are to be submitted electronically by the author/s in PDF format to the Human Rights Programme Committee on humanrights.laws@um.edu.mt by not later than Wednesday 31 October 2018. Late applications will not be considered.
The winner will be informed by Monday 3 December 2018.
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The winner will be informed by Monday 3 December 2018.
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