A number of experts from the Visegrad countries (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia) will discuss human rights and democracy. They will comment on the current situation in their respective V4 countries, with the main focus on judicial independence, as well as on hate speech and discrimination.
The conference will take place on Friday 23.10.2020 from 10.00-12.00 (keynote and panel 1) and from 13.30-15.00 (panel 2).
This event will take place online. Please register here: https://forms.gle/za3L3vytrkxonZ2i7. Only registered participants will receive a link to the conference.
Keynote speaker
• David Kosař, Judicial Studies Institute; Faculty of Law, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
Panel 1: Judicial independence
• Katarína Šipulová, Judicial Studies Institute at Masaryk University, Czech Republic
• Ágnes Kovács, Assistant Professor, ELTE, Hungary
• Hanna Wiczanowska, Faculty of Law and Administration, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland
• Erik Láštic, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University, Slovakia
Panel 2: Hate speech and discrimination
• Monika Hanych, Office of the Government Agent before the ECtHR; Czech Centre for Human Rights & Democracy, Czech Republic
• Alíz Nagy, Department of Human Rights and Politics, ELTE, Hungary
• Julia Wojnowska-Radzińska, Faculty of Law and Administration Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland
• Barbara Lášticová, Institute for Research in Social Communication, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia
The outputs of the conference will be presented in the online journal V4 Human Rights Review, which the Czech Centre for Human Rights and Democracy and its partners publishes every three months.
The project is supported by the #VisegradFund.
We hope you will enjoy the online event!