A house of Stories: 75 years of protecting human rights through the European convention on human rights

The annual SIM Peter Baehr lecture celebrates the founding of the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM) in 1981 and commemorates the late Peter Baehr, one of SIM's former directors and an eminent human rights scholar. The 2025 lecture was delivered by Jolien Schukking, Judge at the European Court of Human Rights held on 14 November 2025. The lecture was preceded by a symposium to mark the 75th anniversary of the ECHR, hosted by SIM, and organised in collaboration with the College voor de Rechten van de Mens, the Montaigne Centre for Rule of Law and Administration of Justice, and the Netherlands Network for Human Rights Research.