Eva Brems is a senior full professor of human rights law at Ghent University, where she heads the Human Rights Centre.
Wouter Vandenhole is a full professor at the Law and Development Research Group of the University of Antwerp, Belgium, where he teaches human rights, children’s rights and equality law.
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Human rights screening: The Flemish Model and Practice (3/9)
In late 2019, the Flemish Interuniversity Council (VLIR) issued Recommendations for implementing a human rights assessment at the Flemish universities, building on the pioneering work at Ghent University.
The human rights ...
Human Rights Screening of University Partners: Introduction to the Blog Symposium (2/9)
Following the two introductory posts, we present a series of 9 blogposts.
We start with a brief presentation of the pioneering work of the Flemish universities in this field. Ghent University adopted a human rights screening policy ...
Human Rights Screening of University Partners: Introduction to the Blog Symposium (1/9)
Israel’s war crimes in Gaza have led to on-campus protests, that questioned the universities’ potential role in enabling or contesting these crimes. While in the US and the UK, such protests focused mostly on universities’ ...