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Cross-fertilisation Between Children's Rights and Human Rights in the Field of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Towards an Integrated Conceptual Framework. University of Antwerp

Wouter Vandenhole
Law and Development
Children's Rights are human rights. Nonetheless, children's rights and human rights tend to be studied as two separate fields of study. In this research, the mutual enrichment of both fields of study is scrutinized. In particular, it is examined how their respective conceptual frameworks could inform each other, and how both could be integrated into one single framework. Economic, social and cultural rights are focused upon.

The state's obligation to protect economic and social rights against violations by transnational corporations: health litigation in a context of resource extraction. Ghent University

Eva Brems
Department of European, Public and International Law, Department of Public Law

Transnational corporations (TNCs) are in principle not directly bound by human rights norms, but states are obliged to protect the rights of their citizens against violations by TNCs. However, as developing countries want to maintain an attractive investment climate, they do not appropriately regulate the activities of TNCs. The project analyzes whether the obligation to protect can be enforced through litigation.



Regional Protection of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Africa in Comparative Perspective Ghent University

Eva Brems
Department of European, Public and International Law

This project studies the actual and potential role of the African UnionU+2019s human rights protection system for effective legal protection of economic, social and cultural rights in Africa. To this end, it compares the African human rights system with the universal and American systems, and assesses the impact of the African system at the domestic level.

The right to social security in the European Union: a comparative analysis on the basis of the constitutional traditions common to the EU Member States, the European Convention on Human Rights and the European Social Charter. KU Leuven

Paul Schoukens
Institute for Social Law, Institute for European Law

The outbreak of the financial and economic crisis had a severe impact on national economies worldwide, including those of the member states of the European Union (EU). Several EU member states with financial difficulties received financial support by the EU institutions. In return, they were obliged to reduce public spending and as a result, national social security systems were drastically reformed. Since the financial and economic crisis, ...

Development and Human Rights in the 'Second World'. Christian NGOs and Social Movements towards the Opening of the East, 1980s-1990s. KU Leuven

Kim Christiaens
KADOC - Documentation and Research Centre on Religion, Culture and Society

The end of the Cold War and the fall of state Socialism in Eastern Europe in 1989-1991 inspired a lot of reactions in Western European societies. More specifically, the opening of the East attracted hundreds of Western European NGOs, development workers, and experts to Central and East Europe. Church-linked and Christian-inspired organizations - ranging from Pax Christi to trade unions and Third World solidarity groups - played a prominent ...

Development and Human Rights in the 'Second World'. Christian NGOs and Social Movements towards the Opening of the East, 1980s-1990s. KU Leuven

Kim Christiaens
KADOC - Documentation and Research Centre on Religion, Culture and Society
The end of the Cold War and the fall of state Socialism in Eastern Europe in 1989-1991 inspired a lot of reactions in Western European societies. More specifically, the opening of the East attracted hundreds of Western European NGOs, development workers, and experts to Central and East Europe. Church-linked and Christian-inspired organizations - ranging from Pax Christi to trade unions and Third World solidarity groups - played a prominent role ...

Economic and Competition Law. University of Antwerp

Wouter Verheyen
Business and Law
Electronic commerce has led to a disruption in the economy, creating opportunities but also threats for businesses, consumers and workers. E-commerce and platform economy have made services, goods and work available to consumers with only one click and allows them to optimize the use of their underused assets. Counterpart hereof is that traditional business models and are at risk because of the new competitors. This doesn`t only entail a risk ...

Sabbatical Marc Swyngedouw: The redesigned political ideological space: socio economic and urban transformation processes, glocalization, transforming welfare state provisions and (re)new(ed) cleavages. KU Leuven

Marc Swyngedouw
Centre for Sociological Research

In twenty years' time, the political power space in Flanders has been completely distorted. The three traditional parties (CD&V, Open-VLD and sp.a) still accounted for 38.6% in the Flemish elections of 2019.
In 1999 they still accounted for 60%. The proportion of voters that the three traditional parties were able to win in the 1991 parliamentary elections in Flanders – the start of the ISPO election survey – was 66%. The ...

Should Immigrants have Fewer Rights than Citizens? An Enquiry into the Moral Bases of Immigrants' Political, Socio-Economic and Linguistic Entitlements KU Leuven

Helder De Schutter
Research in Political Philosophy and Ethics Leuven (RIPPLE)
The idea of differential rights for citizens and resident aliens is normatively undertheorized within the political philosophy of migration, despite its salience in the political debate. What, if any, are the moral grounds for granting citizens more rights than 'denizens'? Three categories of differential rights will be investigated from a normative point of view: priority for citizens in terms of (1) political rights, (2) socioeconomic rights ...

HURISM - HUman RIghts in Small- and Medium-sized enterprises KU Leuven

Monique Ramioul
Research Group Work, Organisation and Social Dialogue, Leuven International and European Studies (LINES)
While the globalization of production creates opportunities for economic development, human rights violations like child labor and forced labor remain a reality in many global value chains. Companies face increasing pressures to proactively assess and address human rights risks in their own activities and in their supply chains, by carrying out a process of Human Rights Due Diligence (HRDD). So far, policy initiatives and civil society campaigns ...