Projects
Imagining Europe from the outside. On the role of democracy and human rights perceptions in constructing migration aspirations and decision towards Europe (EUMAGINE). University of Antwerp
Fostering Human Rights Among European (external and internal) Policies. KU Leuven
FRAME, a 4-year multidisciplinary project, represents a consortium of 19 internationally recognized and globally networked human rights institutes from across Europe and strategic regions around the world. Through FRAME, more than 100 leading researchers and practitioners - with a strong gender balance - aim to provide the necessary building blocks for a coherent EU human rights policy comprised of:
- a sound knowledge base taking ...
GovErning humaN rights through partnErShIpS: investigating the normative and operational interface of international law and multistakeholder governance (GENESIS). University of Antwerp
Examining the Evolving Steering Role of NGOs on the case law of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights Ghent University
Through litigation strategies and third-party interventions, non-governmental (NGOs) set the normative agenda of, and thereby constantly (re)shape, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR). Yet most studies on the evolving jurisprudence of the Inter-American Human Rights System (IAS) relating to environmental matters primarily centre on the interpretative innovations made by its judiciary.
NGOsteerIACtHR develops and applies an ...
Evidence in International Human Rights Adjudication Ghent University
Evidence is at the heart of adjudication, and adjudication at the heart of the international protection of human rights. Yet evidence in international human rights (IHR) adjudication has never been comprehensively studied. Benefiting from the support of highest-level figures in the relevant institutions, DISSECT is a ground-breaking research programme which will capture the evidentiary regimes in place in the worldU+2019 three regional human ...
Making Amnesty international: connections, disconnections, and the uneven geography of international human rights, 1961-2001 KU Leuven
How does an organisation become international? How does it overcome the political, social, economic, cultural and material barriers to transnational collaboration - and what happens when it can't overcome them? This project explores this question by taking a global look at the creation of Amnesty International, one of the most well-known international non-governmental organisations in the world. This project will map the development of ...
Rethinking the status of refugees beyond the camp: a Lefortian response to Agambens critique of democracy and human rights. KU Leuven
Strengthening the European Court of Human Rights: More Accountability through better legal reasoning Ghent University
The project’s objective is to study the European Court of Human Rights’ case-law with the aim of proposing innovative solutions to strengthen the consistency and persuasiveness of the Court’s legal reasoning so as to improve its accountability and transparency. 5 researchers are working on this project, each on particular subthemes including Minority Rights, Stereotypes, Vulnerability, Freedom of Religion, Conflicting Rights and Scope of ...
Defence rights in evidantiary procedures (DREP). KU Leuven
This project focusses on the current state of play related to evidentiary admissibility across the EU, in particular the remedies available under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and Member State criminal procedure and constitutional law for violations of the EU Directives on the procedural rights of suspected and accused persons.