Thicker Notions of Human Rights Accountabilities
This conference revisits the questions of what qualifies as a human rights violation, who holds human rights duties and how to actually deliver human rights accountability in the context of pressing and complex challenges. It will be hosted by the Future Proofing Human Rights research project in Brussels, Belgium from 19-21 November 2025.
We are inviting contributions that seek to reconstruct the notion of human rights accountability. We welcome contributions from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds. Abstracts should be submitted by 20 April 2025.
Read more about the conference and call for abstracts here.
The Human Rights Centre at the Faculty of Law and Criminology at Ghent University is an academic centre specialized in human rights law. We are proud of our dynamic international membership, counting many young researchers and of our broad research and teaching expertise, covering international, regional, national and comparative law of human rights. Human Rights Centre members work on a range of thematic issues, including legal pluralism, freedom of expression, gender, indigenous peoples’ rights, transitional justice, and the European Court of Human Rights. Members also actively engage with human rights practice by supervising clinical projects and submitting third-party interventions to supranational jurisdictions and UN and other monitoring bodies.
