Netherlands Institute of Human Rights

    SIM 25th anniversary


    The Netherlands Institute of Human Rights, SIM, was established on 29 September 1981. On the occasion of its 25th anniversary it organised an international academic conference:

    Human rights in the polder
    Human rights and security in the public and private sphere


    which took place on Friday 29 September 2006.

    On this special website on the occassion of SIM's 25th anniversary you can find information about the conference and brief reports. The conference book is published in December 2007. General information about SIM and it's activities as well as the SIM databases can be found at: http://www.law.uu.nl/english/sim

    The picture we use on these pages is made by Angèle Etoundi Essamba. More information about her work you can find on her website.