IDCR in Mexico

This week, Director of the IDCR Professor Todd Landman has been working with academics at the Latin American Faculty for Social Sciences in Mexico City (FLACSO-Mexico). The workshop focussed on measuring human rights and analysing the variation in human rights during the period of recent democratisation between 1990 and 2010.

The project focuses on human rights to physical integrity, the right to food, and the right to health and uses both quantitative and quantitative methods. Professor Landman presented the new Human Rights Atlas developed in partnership with the Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex and the Mackman Group.

Essex alumni Dr Alejandro Anaya Munoz (PhD Government) and Sandra Serrano (LLM in Human Rights, School of Law) took part in the workshop.

In addition, this year, the IDCR is pleased to be hosting Dr Irma Mendez de Hoyos (FLACSO, and Essex PhD in Government) and Dr Tomislav Lendo (PhD in Government) as Visiting Professors for 2013.