Annual Conference of Human Rights
December 9-10, Tallinn
Introduction
Human rights and freedoms are at the core of free citizen and countries values, giving it up also means abandoning the internal strength to operate in your own interests. Mart Nutt, who established the Estonian Institute of Human Rights and served as the heart and soul of the annual conferences, understood the gist of this seemingly complicated, but simple and logical operation very well. We protect our values and interests by discussing this together in changing circumstances and with more and more variables in the world.
The annual conference brings together people from different professions, shedding light on human rights from important and sometimes unexpected perspectives for all. A clean environment and future of the globe, the possibility to preserve your privacy and option to disengage, which is necessary for the human psyche, are practical topics that apply to everyone. The principle subject of human rights of how to be a good person and care for other people should also be universal.
Ülle Madise, Chancellor of Justice of Estonia
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2019Parallel World Values and InterestsA clean environment and future of the globe, the possibility to preserve your privacy and option to disengage, which is necessary for the human psyche, are practical topics that apply to everyone.
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2018Conflicts of ValuesIn 2018, the panels discussed the topic of small countries as equal partners, whether human rights have a future, how much algorithms affect human rights and whether Russia has a future.
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2017Are Human Rights in Freefall?The conference will address a number of today’s most important topics – terrorism, technological development, security, small states in a globalising world, culture and international cooperation – through a human rights perspective.
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2016Black and White Values in a Polarizing WorldThe topics under discussion this year include a survey of public opinion on human rights among the Estonian citizens and foreigners living in Estonia, questions related to collective human rights and propaganda that have changed people’s understanding of basic rights.
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2015Human Rights in Changing TimesThe topics under discussion this year include case studies from the European Court of Human Rights, linguistic human rights, as well as the views of various generations of Russians today regarding their society.
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2014Dignity in the context of human rightsThis year the conference agenda included three keynotes and a panel discussion following each one: 1) guarantees under international law; 2) rights of native peoples; guarantees under international law; 3) the situation and future in Russia and Ukraine and human rights.
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2013Human Rights and the Freedom to AssociationThis year’s annual conference, titled “Human Rights and the Freedom of Association” will analyse the global developments in human rights that have taken place in 2013.
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2012New Challenges of Human RightsOur conference examined human rights where the internet and the concept of security have altered dramatically our 20th century understanding of the core issues of human rights.
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2011Dedicated to the 20th anniversary of restoration of independence of Estonia