Workshop 1 Sustainable Development Goals (22 May 2017): Prospects & Challenges?

Opening by Professor Marcel Brus, Chair of Public International Law,
University of Groningen

Book Launch 2014-2015 Series: “Socio-Economic Human Rights for
Essential Public Services Provision” (Routledge, 2017)

Discussion Session 1: Appraising existing concepts,
principles and regimes

‘Normative Innovation in the 2030 Agenda’
Professor Koen de Feyter
Chair of International Law, University of Antwerp (Belgium)

The Cross-fertilization between the SDGs and
International Water Law’
Dr Otto Spijkers
Lecturer in Public International Law, Utrecht University

Discussion Session 2: SDGs and Human Rights Practice

‘Human Rights and SDGs: Making the Links Visible’
Marlies Hesselman
PhD Candidate, University of Groningen

‘Human Rights and SDGs in the Practice of the Commission’
Mr Esther van Weele
Dutch Institute for Human Rights

Drinks