Seminar on Human Rights, the United Nations Conventions and Fundamental Rights

Included in the Co-operation Programme in the Legal Field between the European Union and Macao and starting tomorrow, May 24, at 18:30, in the auditorium of the Legal and Judicial Training Centre (Luso-International Bank Building, 18th floor) is a Seminar on Human Rights, the United Nations Conventions and Fundamental Rights. Professor André Nollkaemper, Director of the Amsterdam Center for International Law and Professor of Public International Law of the Faculty of Law at the University of Amsterdam, Holland, will address this training activity that will take place daily until next Friday, May 27. The approached subjects throughout these four days will be “The balance between the public interest and human rights”, “Justiciability of human rights”, “The domestic effect of human rights” and “International supervision of human rights”. The seminar is organised by the Legal and Judicial Training Centre and will be conducted in English. It will count with an enrolment of around 40 local participants, being these holders of a Law degree in their majority. The Co-operation Programme in the Legal Field between the European Union and Macao, which incorporates this seminar, has as its main objective the “Consolidation of the Macao Legal System” and is already in its last and fourth year, taking place until February 2006. The total budget for the programme is of 1.980.000 euros, shared in equal parts by the European Union and Macao. The co-ordination of the Co-operation Programme is at the responsibility of the International Law Office, being the organisation of the pertaining actions ensured by several other entities of the MSAR’s Government, namely the Legal and Judicial Training Centre, the Legal Affairs Bureau, the Economic Services and the Institute of European Studies, other than the International Law Office itself.