The AEJ UK meeting scheduled on July 9 with leading international jurist Veronika Fikfak has been postponed – a new date will be announced when available.
As today’s news agenda remains dominated by the actions of authoritarian leaders who flout international law and seek to exercise arbitrary powers to control migration, curtail other rights, or gain political advantage, Ms. Fikfak, professor of human rights and international law at University College London (UCL), will assess what’s at stake when states defy or reject institutions like the ECHR and the International Criminal Court.
Could genocide become normalised?
What would it mean for citizens, the vulnerable, and Britain’s international standing if the UK were to leave or reject the fundamental rights protections enshrined in the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)?
Will the framework of international law prove more resilient than pessimists suggest?
Professor Fikfak is co-director of the UCL Institute for Human Rights, a judge ad hoc at the European Court of Human Rights, and a member of the Advisory Committee to the UN Human Rights Council.
