PhD researcher position on child sexual abuse and human trafficking
FRC is seeking to fill one full-time PhD researcher position as part of FRC’s team working in the HEROES project – Novel strategies to fight child sexual exploitation and human trafficking in crimes and protect their victims. You will be based at the Fundamental Rights Center...
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New publication: A long way to end rape in the European Union
FRC member, Carlotta Rigotti, has just published her article 'A long way to end rape in the European Union: Assessing the commission’s proposal to harmonise rape law, through a feminist lens' on the New Journal of European Criminal Law. Abstract: On 8 March 2022, th...
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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 entitled 'Penal populism: Some considerations arising from...
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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 Belgium. Some of the research findings have just been p...
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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.
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New publication on privacy
FRC member, Carlotta Rigotti, and LSTS member, Alessandra Calvi, have just published a contribution entitled 'Privacy' to the new Elgar Encyclopedia of Law and Data Science, edited by prof.
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FRC Publishes a Blogpost on the Annual Conference
Following the FRC Annual Conference, the FRC members, Carlotta Rigotti, Julia Zomignani Barboza, and Sibel Top summarised the main discussion points of the day in a short blogpost published in the Human Rights Here blog.
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FRC Joins the HEROES Kick-Off Meeting
On 15 and 16 December 2021, FRC members, Carlotta Rigotti and Júlia Zomignani Barboza, join the Kick Off Meeting of the HEROES project.
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New Publication: FRC Members Explore the Role of Data Protection in the Protection of Migrant
Based on their participation on the REBUILD project, FRC member Júlia Zomignani Barboza and FRC co-director Prof. Dr.
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FRC Member Has Been Selected for the #ThesisThread Finals
We are happy to announce that FRC member, Sibel Top, has been selected for the finals of the #ThesisThread competition. The #ThesisThreat competition is an initiative by the Doctoral Schools of the five Flemish universities to promote the development of science...
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FRC Member Holds the Virtual Lunch Talk Organised by the European Association for Biometrics
FRC member, Bianca-Ioana Marcu will hold the Virtual Lunch Talk "Biometrics, Facial Recognition and the Fundamental Rights of Migrants", on 19 October 2021, 12.30-13.30. This Lunch Talk will be a conversation around the use of biometric data particularly i...
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New Publication: Disproportionate Surveillance: Technology-Assisted and Automated Decisions in Asylum Applications in the EU?
LSTS member, Lina Jasmontaite, and FRC member, Júlia Zomignani Barboza, published a new article on the International Journal of Refugee Law entitled 'Disproportionate Surveillance: Technology-Assisted and Automated Decisions in Asylum Applications in the EU?'.
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