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Cross-fertilisation Between Children's Rights and Human Rights in the Field of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Towards an Integrated Conceptual Framework. University of Antwerp

Wouter Vandenhole
Law and Development
Children's Rights are human rights. Nonetheless, children's rights and human rights tend to be studied as two separate fields of study. In this research, the mutual enrichment of both fields of study is scrutinized. In particular, it is examined how their respective conceptual frameworks could inform each other, and how both could be integrated into one single framework. Economic, social and cultural rights are focused upon.

The right to social security in the European Union: a comparative analysis on the basis of the constitutional traditions common to the EU Member States, the European Convention on Human Rights and the European Social Charter. KU Leuven

Paul Schoukens
Institute for Social Law, Institute for European Law

The outbreak of the financial and economic crisis had a severe impact on national economies worldwide, including those of the member states of the European Union (EU). Several EU member states with financial difficulties received financial support by the EU institutions. In return, they were obliged to reduce public spending and as a result, national social security systems were drastically reformed. Since the financial and economic crisis, ...

Guaranteeing the "right to prior consultation" to indigenous peoples in the Amazon basin in the face of large extractive projects: a critical evaluation of the compatibility of national legislation and practice with international human rights law Ghent University

Yves Haeck
Department of European, Public and International Law, Department of Public Law

Given that the right to prior consultation is of great importance to indigenous peoples, as it allows them to express themselves, build consensus and give their consent, and due to the absence of in-depth studies on its application, this investigation intends to make a qualitative analysis of the issue, focusing on cases where prior consultation processes took place when granting oil concessions in the Amazon territories of three Andean ...

I choose to be a human rights defender: the message from victims of the Chilean dictatorship to future human rights defenders Ghent University

Tine Destrooper
Department of European, Public and International Law

The application concerns a publication for the general public with the message from victims of the Chilean dictatorship for future human rights defenders. Victims and human rights defenders have played a crucial role in the democratic transition after the Chilean dictatorship (1973-1990). With the increasing age of victims and the repetition of human rights violations during the social protests (2019), the role of future generations of human ...

The influence of interest groups on the EUU+2019s foreign policy: assessing and explaining the influence of human rights NGOs on the EUU+2019s human rights promotion in the post-Soviet space Ghent University

Fabienne Bossuyt
Department of Political Sciences

The research project will examine (I) to what extent human rights NGOs influence the European UnionU+2019s promotion of human rights in the post-Soviet space, and (II) what factors explain that influence. To test the possible explanations, the project will use regression analysis based on quantitative data collected from original surveys with human rights NGOs and EU officials.

(How) Can International Criminal Law Safeguard Fundamental Human Rights? The Denial of the Rights to Fair Proceeding as International Crimes KU Leuven

Michele Panzavolta
Leuven Institute of Criminology, Institute for International Law

Dystopian forms of justice are not a fantasy. Today, states and non-state armed groups all around the world frequently employ unfair trials and arbitrary detention as a formidable weapon, both in armed conflicts and to consolidate power. The direct result of these serious infringements of procedural human rights is the loss of liberty or life for thousands of people, namely indefinite incarceration, executions or extra-judicial killings. For ...

Clashes between International Human Rights Law and Constitutional Law? LGB Rights as a Case Study Hasselt University

Stijn SMET
Centre for Government and Law, Ghent University
The rights of LGB people are currently protected under the jurisprudence of international human rights law. However, there are cases in which national constitutions are at odds with it, especially in countries that have enshrined religious or traditional values in their respective constitution. At the same time, the backlash against LGB rights in developing countries could push them to constitutionalize the limitation of the rights of LGB ...

Future-proofing human rights. Developing thicker forms of accountability. Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Paul De Hert
University of Antwerp, Hasselt University, Ghent University, Metajuridica
Human rights are increasingly described as in crisis. One reason for this is that current accountability mechanisms cannot adequately deal with intricate and multilayered human rights violations that occur in rapidly changing and vastly complex social contexts. Thus, if human rights are to continue to offer a widely accepted framework for thinking about (social) justice, we urgently need to reconstruct the very notion of accountability ...

Future-proofing human rights. Towards a thicker understanding of accountability. University of Antwerp

Wouter Vandenhole
Hasselt University, Ghent University, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Law and Development
Human rights are increasingly described as in crisis. One reason for this is that current accountability mechanisms cannot adequately deal with intricate and multilayered human rights violations that occur in rapidly changing and vastly complex social contexts. Thus, if human rights are to continue to offer a widely accepted framework for thinking about (social) justice, we urgently need to reconstruct the very notion of accountability on which ...