States' human rights obligations and justification of their (in)actions

• Department of Law

This event is jointly organised by the EUI Human and Fundamental Rights Working Group, the Faculty of Law (University of Helsinki), the research project on Human Rights in the Nordic Countries (Lund University), and WP4 of HRJust, a Horizon EU Funded research project.

This event will take place in Sala degli Stemmi on 14 May and in Sala dei Cuoi on 15 May.

The underlying theme of the workshop is 'human rights justifications', i.e. how governments or states may seek to justify their action or inaction by referring to their human rights obligations. Often this entails real or assumed tensions or collisions between different human rights, but sometimes human rights justifications are framed on a high level of abstraction, so that a collective goal such as national security may be presented by invoking the human rights of the citizens or generally inhabitants of a country. For legal analysis, the theme raises questions concerning reconciliation between colliding rights, conflicts between individual rights and collective goals, and the choices between the negative and positive human rights obligations of a state. The event brings together scholars from a Horizon Europe project on human rights justifications, a Lund University project on human rights law in the Nordic countries and, as host, the EUI Working Group on fundamental and human rights.

This in-person event is open to everyone but registrations are required, at the latest by 12 May.