Thank you very much for joining us today, in this most unusual year. It is an honour to be delivering this lecture, which is part of a series named in memory of the late Peter Baehr, one of the pioneers of human rights research and activism in the Netherlands. A political scientist, Peter Baehr played an important role at Amnesty International, both in the Netherlands and internationally, and was the director of the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM) at Utrecht University from 1991 until his retirement in 1997. Following his passing in 2010, this annual SIM lecture series was renamed in his honour. I understand his family members are joining us today as well, and I would like to extend a special welcome to them: thank you for being with us today. I just referred to this year as ‘unusual’ which history may or may not judge to be the ultimate euphemism for the situation we are going through. What is certain, however, is that our current circumstances were not foreseeable when Peter Baehr was doing his important human rights work, and they were certainly not foreseeable at the time our current international human rights framework –– the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the two binding treaties that followed from it, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights –– was drafted following the Second World War. Nevertheless, this human rights framework persists today, and it is proving to be as relevant as ever amidst a global pandemic and a landscape of rapid technological change, both of which are having significant impact on our human rights. We will touch upon all of these issues in this lecture.

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Sim Peter Baehr 讲座：确保数字时代所有人的人权

非常感谢您今天加入我们，在这个最不寻常的一年。很荣幸能够提供这次讲座，这是为纪念已故的彼得·贝尔（Peter Baehr）而命名的系列讲座的一部分，他是荷兰人权研究和激进主义的先驱之一。作为一名政治科学家，彼得·贝尔在荷兰和国际上的国际特赦组织中发挥了重要作用，并从 1991 年起担任乌得勒支大学荷兰人权研究所 (SIM) 的主任，直到他于 1997 年退休。 2010 年，这一年度 SIM 讲座系列以他的名字命名。我知道他的家人今天也加入了我们，我想向他们表示特别的欢迎：感谢你们今天和我们在一起。我只是将今年称为“不寻常”，历史可能会也可能不会认为这是对我们正在经历的情况的最终委婉说法。然而，可以肯定的是，当彼得·贝尔 (Peter Baehr) 从事重要的人权工作时，我们目前的情况是无法预见的，而在我们当前的国际人权框架——《世界人权宣言》和随之而来的两项具有约束力的条约，即《公民权利和政治权利国际公约》和《经济、社会和文化权利国际公约》——是在第二次世界大战之后起草的。尽管如此，这一人权框架今天仍然存在，而且在全球流行病和技术快速变革的情况下，它被证明与以往一样重要，这两者都对我们的人权产生重大影响。我们将在本次讲座中触及所有这些问题。