Human and Fundamental Rights Working Group

The Human and Fundamental Rights Working Group provides a forum for researchers to discuss issues related to the protection of human rights at domestic, regional and international levels. As of April 2019, this Working Group combines the former Fundamental Rights Working Group (established in May 2011) and the Human Rights Working Group-Law in Action Project (newly relaunched in April 2018). The Working Group organises ad hoc events with invited external and internal speakers, and welcomes EUI researchers’ presentations. It also provides an informal forum for discussing ideas, papers and case law through monthly meetings of its members. Our ambition is to keep track of the latest international and European legal developments and to contribute to research on human rights protection carried out in various forms at the EUI’s LAW Department and beyond.

Events in Academic Year 2024-2025:

• 27.10.2025: Roma women before the European Court of Human Rights: a missed opportunity to deliver justice
• 04.02.2025: The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities responds to the challenge: obligations in regard to employing artificial intelligence decision-making processes
• 13.12.2024: Book Launch: Sex, gender, and international human rights law: contesting binaries (co-hosted with the Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group and the Legal and Political Theory Working Group)
• 10.12.2024: Human Rights Day Film Screening: Democracy Noir (2024) (co-hosted with the Constitutional Law and Politics Working Group)
• 30.10.2024: Climate Litigation and the Politics of Rights (co-hosted with the Constitutional Law and Politics Working Group)
• 22.10.2024: The 2024 CEDAW Inquiry Report on Poland and Beyond: Lessons from Human Rights Experimentalism to Protect Reproductive Rights

Past Events