Programme for Studies
on Human Rights in Context
Our Research Vision & Topics
Meet the Research Team
Our Books and Articles
Overview of our Courses
Latest news
Our Director Prof Dr Clara Burbano Herrera awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant! The Human Rights in Context team warmly congratulates Prof Burbano for this academic achievement.
Applications are closed now!
Summer School ‘Human Rights & Persons Deprived of Liberty’.
Successful candidates will be informed of their place on Monday 16 May 2022.
The summer course will take place from Tuesday 5 to Friday 8 July 2022. More information here
Our students pleaded before a jury of diplomats at UNESCO in Paris, in preparation for their participation in the Inter-American Human Rights Moot Court Competition. Many thanks to the Permanent Delegation of Belgium to UNESCO for this unforgettable experience. The event took place on 10 May in Paris (France).
We are delighted to announce our forthcoming book 'Human Rights Behind Bars: Tracing vulnerability in prison populations from a multidisciplinary perspective', Clara Burbano Herrera and Yves Haeck (eds), Springer, 2022.
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
United Nations, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 1
Upcoming Events
Tue, 05 JulSummer school
Fri, 29 AprSeminar
Human Rights
Courses and Traineeships
An extensive list of the top LLM, MA, and MSc Human Rights programmes, Short Human Rights courses, and Summer Schools in Europe.
About Us
Our research vision is to conduct studies on the promotion, advancement, and respect of human rights, democracy, and the rule of law. We reflect on how international human rights bodies function, and how to inspire better interaction between domestic and international law within its wider social and political context.
The programme is embedded within the Faculty of Law and Criminology and the Human Rights Centre of Ghent University.
