Projects
Between commodity and community. A global and comparative research into communal land rights transformation in the Andes, 19th and 20th centuries. Ghent University
This research seeks to gain a better historical understanding of the coexistence of communal land systems with processes of global land commodification through which land access and control is standardized into absolute private property rights. After 500 years of historical capitalism, an estimated 65% of the world’s land area continues to be managed under customary communitybased tenure regimes, but their strength and forms vary widely ...
Community, Control and Commons. Access to Land, Use Rights and Social Power Relations in the Belgian Ardennes between 1750 and 1900 Ghent University
This research project aims to reassess historiographical debates on shifting power relations in rural
communities during the transition period 1750-1900, when village communities were gradually
incorporated into modern society in Western Europe. The ambition of this project is to approach
these shifts by analysing social property relations, which appear at the heart of power struggles
between and among local actors, ...
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
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.
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
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
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, ...
EU economic governance and the right to collective bargaining. A legal research of the problematic relationship between European economic policy and fundamental social rights KU Leuven
This research studies the relationship of EU economic governance with the right to collective bargaining. In addition to legislation, the European Union also uses a hybrid policy method called 'economic governance' to make annual (country specific) recommendations to the member states, the follow-up of which is monitored by the institutions through various mechanisms in the European Semester. ...
B.RIGHT SPACES : Better rights in better civic space. Understanding, developing and networking civic spaces for a better implementation and protection of rights Vrije Universiteit Brussel
of civil and political rights, economic and social rights, in a perspective of progressive recognition and expansion. This approach allows
for growth and progress, while minimising potential setbacks. However, certain rights are at risk, specifically those pertaining to equality
and ...
FAIR: EU Charter of Fundamental rights: Awareness raising and Instruments to promote a culture of Rights Vrije Universiteit Brussel
a two-year set of awareness-raising and communication activities aimed at responding to the solicitation enshrined in the 2020 EU
Commission “Strategy to strengthen the application of the Charter of Fundamental Rights in the EU” to develop initiatives to promote
people’s awareness of their Charter ...