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Study visit at the Business and human rights Unity at the University of Pretoria in South Africa and field visits to the African Regional and sub-regional mechanisms of human rights protection as well as to some human rights organisations which support vi Ghent University

Eva Brems
Department of European, Public and International Law

African countries need to attract Multinational Corporations (MNCs) for their development. But at the same time, many MNCs have been accused of involvement in human rights abuses and their victims face many obstacles to accessing remedies in domestic jurisdictions. This research will explore the potential of the African regional and sub-regional mechanisms to fill that gap in human rights protection.

The discovery of human rights in Belgian law: case law against Belgium in the first deaced of the European Commission for Human Rights and the European Court of Human Rights Ghent University

Eva Brems
Department of Interdisciplinary Study of Law, Private Law and Business Law, Department of European, Public and International Law, Department of Legal theory and legal history, Department of Public Law

The project will research how, during the first decades of the operation of the European Court of Human Rights (1960s, 1970s and 1980s), this Court and the European Convention on Human Rights gradually managed to find a place in BelgiumU+2019s domestic legal landscape and to impose their authority.

Universalism vs. particularism in the transnational civil society of human rights organizations. Amnesty International USA and Human Rights Watch between cooperation and competition (1978-2008). University of Antwerp

Maarten Van Ginderachter
Power in History - Centre for Political History
At the beginning of the 21st century the number of non-governmental organizations participating in the transnational civil society of human rights is almost uncountable. One could applaud the proliferation of human rights organizations (HROs) but one should also wonder why so many exist. Does this reflect an effective division of labour or does it indicate particularistic interests? This project, which dovetails with the very recent growth of ...

The Relationship between International Investment Law and Human Rights Law – Towards a More Balanced Integration of Human Rights in Investment Law KU Leuven

Paul Lemmens
Research Unit Public Law, Institute for Human Rights, Institute for European Law

Globalisation caused international law to grow and to become more complex. Besides the increased complexity, the interaction between the international law frameworks intensified. This dissertation evaluates the interaction between international investment law and human rights as this is a pressing issue which will gain ample importance in the future, given that international investment remains to touch upon new heights and human rights law ...

Universalism vs. particularism in the transnational civil society of human rights organizations. Amnesty International USA and Human Rights Watch between cooperation and competition (1978-2008). University of Antwerp

Maarten Van Ginderachter
Power in History - Centre for Political History
At the beginning of the 21st century the number of non-governmental organizations participating in the transnational civil society of human rights is almost uncountable. One could applaud the proliferation of human rights organizations (HROs) but one should also wonder why so many exist. Does this reflect an effective division of labour or does it indicate particularistic interests? This project, which dovetails with the very recent growth of ...

National Human Rights Institutions as Bridge Builders between the State and the Multi-Layered Human Rights System? An International Legal Analysis from a European Perspective. KU Leuven

Jan Wouters
Institute for International Law, Institute for Human Rights

‘What does the international legal examination of international (UN, European and network) regulatory frameworks concerning (European) NHRIs tell us about the position of NHRIs towards the state in the multi-layered human rights system?’ This is the overarching research question this dissertation aims to answer.
Accordingly, two common threads run throughout the dissertation:
1. the international legal approach to the study of ...

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.

Business and Human Rights Innovation Platform: Connecting Law and Management for Human Rights (BHRIP). KU Leuven

Geert Van Calster
Institute for European Law, Institute for International Law
The 2011 United Nations Guiding Principles on business and human rights (the UN Principles) have an essential role to play in resolving an institutional misalignment resulting in governance gaps and legal accountability vacuums for business enterprises. This calls for a broad approach that encompasses all public and private (civil and commercial) governance systems that affect the conduct of States and business enterprises. The research network ...

Consultancy on a strategic action plan on human rights and biomedicine with regard to human rights and technologies in biomedicine for the period 2020-2025. University of Antwerp

Kristof Van Assche
Personal Rights and Property Rights
Consultancy, in coordination with the Secretariat of the Committee on Bioethics of the Council of Europe and the Chair of the Drafting Group for the Strategic Action Plan, carrying out an editorial review of the Strategic Action Plan on human rights and new technologies with a view to its presentation at the Committee on Bioethics at its 16th plenary meeting (19-21 November 2019).