Maja Dehamers is an FWO-funded aspirant fundamental research. She studied Law in Ghent, finishing her Masters in 2024. Passionate about human rights research, she applied for an FWO grant in 2025. In this period she also studied Spanish and took courses on the History of Latin-America. After having made it through the selection she started her research in November 2025.
During her studies, passionate about greening the faculty, she acted as a student representative in the sustainability commission. Currently, she is a volunteer at the non-profit organization CATAPA, which fights against extractivist projects in Latin-America. Because of her passion for national environmental law (that she did not pursue a career in because of her greater love for human rights law), she is also a member of the Municipal Commission on Urban Planning of the city Deinze.
Her research focuses on the in situ visits of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, where the Court sends a delegation of judges and other court personnel to visit the site of the facts of a case, in order to gather more evidence. The focus lies on indigenous cases, located in Honduras and Argentina.
University Degrees
Additional (inter)national (human rights) courses taken
