The sixth annual Conference on Human Rights will focus on two topical issues of international concern: migration with a main focus on immigration issues; and topics related to propaganda and freedom of speech.
The 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. In light of the migration crisis, we will examine the issue of who is and who has the right to be a European and if the concept of universal human rights is crumbling in a divided Europe, where we have witnessed the rise of new oppositions.
Read morePanelists
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?More infoEva-Maria AsariAuditor in the National Audit Office of Estonia
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?More infoMaksim GorjunovPhilosopher and publicist
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?More infoVootele HansenChairman of the Board, Institute of Human Rights
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?More infoThella JohnsonSwedish Radio Correspondent to Finland, Baltic countries and Poland
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?More infoMartin Bak JørgensenAssociate Professor in the Faculty of Humanities in the Aalborg University
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?More infoKersti KaljulaidPresident of the Republic of Estonia
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?More infoMikhail KhodorkovskyThe Founder of the Open Russia movement
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?More infoÜlle MadiseChancellor of Justice in Estonia
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?More infoIvan MakarovRadio editor in Radio 4 (Russian radio in Estonia)
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?More infoTuomas MartikainenAssistant Professor of Comparative Theology at the University of Helsinki
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?More infoMart NuttPhD, Member of Parliament, Host of the Conference
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?More infoGeorgii PocheptsovPhD, Ukrainian media expert
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?More infoRaul RebaneIndependent media analyst, expert of media and communication and a publicist
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?More infoDominique ReyniéFrench politician and Professor of Political Science at the Sciences Po
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?More infoThilo SarrazinPhD, German writer, politician and a former member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank
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?More infoTõnis StambergCEO of Turu-uuringute AS
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?More infoJelizaveta SurnachevaJournalist at the independent Russian TV-channel ‘Rain’
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?More infoTiit TammaruProfessor of Urban and Population Geography in the University of Tartu
Program
8 December
19:30 – 22:00
9 December
12:00 – 13:00
13:00 – 13:15
13:15 – 13:35
14:35 – 14:55
14:55 – 16:25
16:25 – 16:45
16:45 – 18:15
18:15 – 20:00
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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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
2011Dedicated to the 20th anniversary of restoration of independence of Estonia