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
We are hiring no less than 5 researchers!
If you want to join our work on human rights, this is the time.
Human Rights in Context is hiring 3 PhDs researchers (full-time), 1 Researcher (15%) and 1 Academic Assistant (full-time). Applications by August and October. More info here
We are delighted to announce our forthcoming book
Human Rights Behind Bars: Tracing Vulnerability in Prison Populations Across Continents from a Multidisciplinary perspective', Clara Burbano- Herrera and Yves Haeck (eds), Springer, 2022.
Our Directors met the Human Rights Committee
The Human Rights Committee organised on 19 July a closed meeting with the drafters of The Nijmegen Principles and Guidelines on Interim Measures for the Protection of Human Rights, including Profs Burbano Herrera and Haeck.
We trust this important meeting will contribute to the real protection of persons in danger around the world.
Postdoctoral Grants
Our warmest congratulations to Dr Alessandra Cuppini and Dr Gustavo Prieto for having obtained a Postdoctoral scholarship grant from the FWO. We are happy to have both of you on our Human Rights in Context team.
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
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Tue, 12 JulGhent
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.
