News & Events

A Conversation with Richard Bennett and Dorothy Estrada-Tanck

Date and Time: Tuesday 30th of January, 1pm to 2pm (Irish Time). A light lunch will be provided

Location: Irish Centre for Human Rights Seminar Room and Online via Zoom, email humanrights@universityofgalway.ie for the Zoom link

Speakers: Richard Bennett, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan and Dorothy Estrada-Tanck, Chair of the United Nations Working Group on Discrimination Against Women and Girls (UN WGDAWG). 

War, Rights, and Narcotics: Lessons from Years of Research on the Taliban's Strategic Edge

Date and Time: Friday 9th of February, 1pm to 2pm (Irish Time). A light lunch will be provided

Location: Irish Centre for Human Rights Seminar Room

Speaker: Qayoom Suroush, Former Senior Researcher with Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit/ based in University of Galway (graduate student) 

“Sufis as Civil Society? Afghanistan from the ground up”  

Date and Time: Friday 16th February, 1pm to 2pm (Irish Time). A light lunch will be provided from 12.15pm. 

Location: Irish Centre for Human Rights Seminar Room

Speaker: Dr. Annika Schmeding, Cultural anthropologist, Senior Researcher at NIOD 

Front Line Defenders Annual Lecture: Horia Mosadiq 

Date and Time: Tuesday 12th March, 6pm to 7pm, reception to follow

Location: To be confirmed

Speaker: Horia Mosadiq Afghan human rights activist, political analyst, and journalist. Founder of the NGO Safety and Risk Mitigation Organization