Utrecht University

Faculty Member, Netherlands Institute of Human Rights

Associate Professor

Faculty of Law, Economics and Governance

About

Anja Mihr is Associate Professor at the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM), University of Utrecht, Netherlands. She teaches Human Rights and Democratization in International Relations.

In her latest research she is focusing on Transitional Justice, Reconciliation, Human Rights and Democratization. In 2008 she was Visiting Professor for Human Rights at Peking University Law School in China and worked for the Raoul Wallenberg Research Institute on Human Rights, Lund University. From 2006-2008 she was the European Program Director for the European Master Degree in Human Rights and Democratization at the European Inter-University Center for Human Rights in Venice (EIUC), Italy. She received her Ph.D in Political Sciences from the Free University in Berlin, Germany, in 2001. Mihr has worked for Amnesty International and the German Institute for Human Rights. Starting as a assistant professor with UNESCO Chair in Human Rights at the University of Magdeburg in 2002 in Germany, she was later a research director at the Humboldt University of Berlin carrying out  the research project  "Teaching Human Rights in Europe" from 2003-2006.  From 2002-2006 Anja Mihr also served as Chair of Amnesty International Germany. 

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