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Fundamental Rights Research Centre

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The Fundamental Rights Research Centre (FRC) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel coordinates and centralizes the many human-rights linked research projects within the university. Both theory of human rights, national human rights law (constitutional law, criminal law, civil law, …) and international human rights law are brought together with the objective of engendering and stimulating integrated human rights research projects. 

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News

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Friday 12 August

New publication: Between a rock and a hard place: A human rights assessment of the fate of excluded asylum-seekers and criminal refugees in Australia

FRC member, Júlia Zomignani Barboza , has just published a new article on the Refugee Survey Quaterly, based on her PhD research. The article, which is available at the following link , is entitled...

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Monday 27 June

FRC member presents her PhD research at Durham Law School

On 27 June 2020, FRC member, Carlotta Rigotti will present her PhD research "Criminal law at the intersection between technology and sexuality: A case study on the possible criminalisation of sex...

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Tuesday 7 June

New publication: Trustworthy migrant-centric apps and other ICT tools: Data protection as the last line of defence

FRC members Bianca-Ioana Marcu , Júlia Zomignani Barboza and Prof. Paul de Hert contributed to the newly book Information and Communications Technology in Support of Migration with a chapter entitled...

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Events

Afghanistan
Tuesday 7 December from 13:30 to 19:00

FRC Annual Conference

Being remotely held on the week of Human Right’s Day, the FRC Annual Conference will take place on Tuesday, 7th December 2021, 13.30 - 19 (Brussels time). This one afternoon-conference will focus on...

CJEU
Wednesday 24 November from 14:00 to 17:00

Opinion 1/19 on the EU’s Accession to the Istanbul Convention: Is There Light at the End of the Tunnel Yet?

On 6 October 2021, the Court of Justice of the EU delivered its much anticipated Opinion on the accession of the EU to the Istanbul Convention. The Council of Europe's Istanbul Convention aims at...

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Tuesday 6 July from 12:00 to 13:30

Gender, Technology, and Law: Sexting amongst Children: Should it Fall within the Scope of Criminal Legislation?

This Gender, Technology and Law session will be animated by Argyro (Iro) Chatzinikolaou (Ghent University) and is entitled: Sexting amongst children: should it fall within the scope of criminal...

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