Seminar on Human Rights and International Law

Included in the Co-operation Programme in the Legal Field between the European Union and Macao and starting tomorrow, June 12, at 6:30 pm, at the Legal and Judicial Training Centre (Luso-International Bank Building, 18th floor), is the Seminar on “Human Rights and International Law: Some Global Challenges”. This training activity will take place daily, between 6.30 and 8.30 pm, until June 16, having as speakers Marco Ventura, Professor of the Faculty of Law of the University of Siena, Italy, and Jónatas Eduardo Mendes Machado, Assistant Professor of the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra, Portugal. During the five days of the seminar, will be discussed the following topics: “Human rights in the global market, economics and International Law”, “International Protection of Human rights, Human Rights between global a local understanding”, “International Human Rights Courts and alternative dispute resolution”, “Freedom of Expression and Media Responsibility” and “Human Rights and new frontiers of life: bioethics and biotechnologies”. This seminar is organised by the Legal and Judicial Training Centre, will be conducted in English and targets Law degree holders. 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 fifth year, taking place until February 2007. 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 activities 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.