Localising Human Rights
The research line Localising Human Rights analyses the effectiveness of human rights for social groups that are not accommodated by dominant development paradigms. This long-term interdisciplinary project combines insights from law, political science, and the social sciences.
An international workshop and international conference were held in Antwerp in 2007 and 2008. A conference book titled 'The Local Relevance of Human Rights' was published in 2011. From 2012 until 2017, the research agenda on Localising Human Rights was partly embedded in the Interuniversity Attraction Pole (IAP) “The Global 91Թ of Human Rights Integration: Towards a Users’ Perspective”.
The LDRG was mainly involved in work package 2 "Users’ trajectories in human rights law", which includes research on
- Developing a methodology
- UNICEF’s sanitised villages project in the Bas-Congo
- Right to water for the urban poor in New Delhi
- Right to education of rural-urban migrants in Chongqing, China
- The Human Rights Council from below
The findings of the empirical studies are documented in the Localising Human Rights Working Paper Series.
Main researchers
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Key publications
De Feyter Koen, Parmentier S., Timmerman C., Ulrich G. [edit.]
ISBN 978-1-107-00956-1
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.- 400 p.
(EIUC Studies in human rights and democratisation; 3)