The annual conference of the Human Rights Platform will this year commemorate the 30th Anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, taking stock of developments which this Convention has brought about and looking to the future in order to see how that Convention's aims could better be affected.
Once again, the Human Rights Platform will be presenting the annual Human Rights Platform Award at this conference. The award:
- will be given for an academic work displaying scientific rigour authored over the last five years which inspires better understanding, diffusion or implementation of fundamental human rights and which has particular relevance to human rights scholarship in Malta
- is an academic and interdisciplinary one granted to the author/s of what the Programme’s independent adjudicative panel considers to be the best text relevant to Human Rights from among the texts which are submitted for its consideration
- may be applied for by submitting a ‘text’ which, in terms of the above paragraph, includes dissertations, books and academic articles, chapters in books, and essays, whether published or still awaiting publication at the time of adjudication.
The recipient/s of the award will receive a memento, and will be invited to give a public lecture during the following year.
Entries are to be submitted electronically (in PDF format) or in hard copy to the Human Rights Platform Committee at humanrights.laws@um.edu.mt by not later than Monday 14 October, 2019. Those submitting in hard copy are to provide three copies. Late applications will not be considered.
The winner will be informed by Monday 2 December, 2019.
