Projects
Accountability for human rights violations by international organisations. KU Leuven
The Rhetoric of Rights-Claiming: A Philosophical Assessment of the Nature, Possibilities, and Risks of the language of human rights. KU Leuven
Ever more grievances, aspirations, claims to goods, or demands for protection are formulated in the vocabulary of human rights. This has engendered important critiques. Both conservative and radical thinkers claim that serious moral or ethical concerns are being misframed as entitlements to formal rights. However, these debates on the effects of human rights language rarely stem from a systematic analysis of human right claims themselves. The ...
GovErning humaN rights through partnErShIpS: investigating the normative and operational interface of international law and multistakeholder governance (GENESIS). University of Antwerp
Multistakeholder partnerships, human rights and international law. University of Antwerp
BEYOND HIRSI - The protection of human rights of migrants in the context of EU Member States engaging in maritime operations in the Mediterranean Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Intersectionality in international human rights adjudication Ghent University
Intersectionality is essential for effective human rights protection and to combat structural oppression. However, the practice of intersectionality in international human rights law is very inconsistent and context-dependent, varying strongly between IHRMB and depending on the relevant intersection. This study aims to analyse and compare those approaches and to uncover the reasons behind them. Research on intersectionality in international ...
Development of a toolkit related to business and human rights University of Antwerp
Recharge - Human rights en Eu external relations and internal policies. KU Leuven
From the Leuven Center for Global Governance Studies we coordinate an application for the FP7 Cooperation Work Program. We work together with a number of leading foreign research groups with specializations in human rights, European policy and globalization, given the multidisciplinary focus of the project. Against the background of the complex, globalized world, the initiative aims to investigate changing patterns and future trends in the ...
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 ...