Scholar Joins Irish Centre for Human Rights

The Irish Centre for Human Rights at NUI Galway has officially welcomed this year’s Bank of Ireland Fellowship Scholar, Dr. Abou Abass from Mauritania. Since 2001, the Fellowship has allowed the Centre to host scholars from developing countries. The aim of the fellowship is to support academically gifted individuals, providing them with an environment in which they can undertake research and increase their knowledge in the field of Human Rights and International Criminal law.

At the Irish Centre for Human Rights, Dr. Abass will pursue research on the subject of Africa and the International Criminal Court, while lecturing a course on Gender and Human Rights. Dr. Abou Abass holds a PhD in Law from the University of Paul Cezanne in Aix-en-Provence, France. Prior to taking office as Bank of Ireland fellow, Dr. Abass has spent six months at the Hague, the Netherlands, working as a Law Clerk at the Legal Advisory Section of the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.

There are lots of upcoming events at the centre. Next up on 12 April is a presentation by Geoffrey Harris, Head of the Human Rights Unit within the Secretariat General of the European Parliament. He will speak about the The Promotion of Human Rights by the EU: The Parliamentary Dimension.

For more info visit http://www.nuigalway.ie/human_rights/events.html