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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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Thursday 12 May

FRC member presents at the EU Pop Conference

On 12 May 2022, FRC member, Carlotta Rigotti , will present part of her ongoing PhD reserach during the EU Pop Conference organised by the University of Central Lancashire. The presentation is...

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Tuesday 10 May

FRC research on labour exploitation featured in De Standaard

FRC affiliated member, Amy Weatherburn , has contributed to a VUB research project funded by Fairwork Belgium and Orbit vzw and designed to develop a long-term outlook on labour migration needs in...

Rebuild
Tuesday 29 March

The REBUILD project comes to an end with an online final conference

On 28 March 2021, the REBUILD project came to end with an online final conference in which project partners, including FRC, presented project activities and findings. During the conference, FRC...

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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...

IG
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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