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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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Monday 6 September

FRC Joins the Conference on 'Human Rights in Pandemic Times Political Exceptionalism, Social Vulnerability & Restricted Freedoms. International and European Perspectives.

Prof. Paul de Hert , Dr. Amy Weatherburn , and Júlia Zomignani Barboza worked on a contribution to the Conference on 'Human Rights in Pandemic Times Political Exceptionalism, Social Vulnerability...

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Tuesday 3 August

New Publication: Unfolding the Case of Returnees

FRC members, Carlotta Rigotti and Júlia Zomignani Barboza , have just published a new article on the Special Issue of the International Review of the Red Cross on counter-terrorism. The article is...

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Monday 19 July

Call for Papers for the IDEAS Conference on (Dis)Integration from an (In)equality Perspective

On 16th July 2021, the call for paper for the IDEAS Conference on (Dis)Integration from an (In)equality Perspective was launched. The conference , which will be co-organised by the Institut d'études...

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Events

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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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Thursday 10 June from 10:00 to 17:00

FRC PhD Day

The first edition of the FRC PhD Day will take place on 10th June 2021, 10 a.m - 5 p.m. (Brussels time). To respect the lockdown measures against the Covid-19 pandemic, it will be held remotely, via...

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Tuesday 15 June from 12:00 to 13:30

Gender, Technology, and Law: The Consequences of Missing Diversity Considerations in the Development of Algorithms

This Gender, Technology and Law session will be animated by Dr. Eduard Fosch Villaronga (Leiden University) and is entitled: The consequences of missing diversity considerations in the development of...

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