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Human rights award for Ulster student
- 15th December 2010
A law student at the University of Ulster has won a major human rights award from the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission.
Katrina Killen, who has an LLM in Human Rights Law and Transitional Justice, won the award for her thesis into whether or not transitional justice mechanisms should address socioeconomic issues. It was judged the best dissertation submitted this year.
She says: “I feel very privileged to have received this award and am thankful to all the staff at University of Ulster for their expertise and encouragement.” Dr Louise Mallinder, lecturer in Human Rights and International Law at the Transitional Justice Institute (TJI), said: “In her dissertation, Katrina makes a cogent and persuasive argument that transitional justice mechanisms should encompass measures to tackle structural injustices. This is an important and complex area of study due to the impact that socio-economic rights violations can have on both the outbreak and maintenance of violent conflict. The award of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission prize is both fitting and richly deserved.”
The Prize is awarded annually for the best dissertation in the LLM in Human Rights Law programme, run by the TJI in Ulster.-
