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SUMMARY:FAU CHREN Human Rights Colloquium: “Forced separation – do
  we need a new legal category?” with Dr. Rainer Huhle
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DESCRIPTION:This FAU CHREN Human Rights Colloquium will be held on 
 10 December 2025 from 6:15 to 7:30 pm and will feature Rainer Huhle 
 as speaker. Dr. Janina Heaphy will chair the event. Description ‘For
 ced Separation’ is a relatively new concept\, which seeks to grapple
  with many different socio-political contexts and legal approaches dir
 ected at the violent separation of family members. The presentation un
 folds the complex map of contexts in which forced separations occur as
  well as the different legal approaches to tackle the specific harms t
 hat result from them. Its main focus will be on the forced separation 
 of children from their parents and wider families. Most of the causes 
 of forced separations are addressed by a wide set of instruments of in
 ternational law. So there seems no need for a juridic umbrella term fo
 r all the cases discussed. The value of the concept of forced separati
 on\, I propose\, is that its starting point is not the act of separati
 on as such or its legal sanction but the harm caused by the forceful s
 eparation of families. Without renouncing to the rights to justice and
  to the truth\, the concept of forced separation can visualise the suf
 fering of separated families even when they cannot rely on the protect
 ion of the law\, but still merit remedies for the unvoluntary separati
 on inflicted on them. Speaker Bio Dr. Rainer Huhle holds a PhD in poli
 tical science from the FAU. He spent most of his life outside the univ
 ersity\, but joined the faculty of the Master Programe to teach\, toge
 ther with Laura Clérico\, the course on Transitional Justice. Beyond 
 the topics related to Enforced Disappearance\, Transitional Justice\, 
 and the UN system for the protection of Human Rights his main research
  interests are the history of human rights\, memories and memorializat
 ion of human rights crimes\, and political and legal strategies of com
 bating impunity. In this context he was a curator of the permanent exh
 ibition on the Nuremberg Trials in the Palace of Nuremberg. Di
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