Social governance models of global value chains (GVCs) are criticized as being dominated by advanced economy multinational corporations (MNCs) and primarily focusing on civil society organizations (CSOs) from developed countries, marginalizing the local agency, knowledge, and needs of...

Instrumental motives can only explain a minority of the applications for a violation of freedom of assembly that the European Court of Human Rights has published, even if one includes indirect benefits, like mounting international pressure, or fuelling local mobilisation. For most cases, the...

US imperial policy towards Latin America and the Caribbean is characterised by a combination of dominance ambitions and exclusivity claims. Through drastic coercive measures, Washington is forcing an economic transformation in Venezuela without paving the way for a political transition. At the...

In a context of high polarisation and long-term tensions over advancing gender equality, this report examines how negotiations at the 59th session of the Human Rights Council in June 2025 achieved some key successes, and managed to hold the line on gender rights in the face of backlash. Based in...

Immigrant rights have been found to be better protected in democracies than in authoritarian regimes, but there is no systematic test of different explanations of why this is the case. In this paper, we attempt to fill this gap by investigating which features of democratic political systems are...

On 9 April 2024, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) delivered a landmark ruling in Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz and Others v. Switzerland. The ruling was handed down together with two further rulings in Duarte Agostinho and others v. Portugal and others, and in Carême v. France. The...

The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, which is binding for the EU institutions and, when they are implementing EU law, Member States, sets out the rights, freedoms and principles that guide the European Union's policies and actions, together with the values set out in the EU...

This report examines the establishment of a Public EU Rating Agency dedicated to environmental and social sustainability and human rights. The proposed Agency would support sustainability reporting processes by developing standards, accrediting auditors, and serving as a centralized EU-level...

This report examines the establishment of a Public EU Rating Agency dedicated to environmental and social sustainability and human rights. The proposed Agency would support sustainability reporting processes by developing standards, accrediting auditors, and serving as a centralized EU-level...

This paper provides an overview of both long-standing and new legal and policy developments concerning Environmental Human Rights Defenders (EHRDs). The focus is on four major components: i) observing different approaches and understandings about EHRDs; ii) analysing the content of international...

This paper provides an overview of both long-standing and new legal and policy developments concerning Environmental Human Rights Defenders (EHRDs). The focus is on four major components: i) observing different approaches and understandings about EHRDs; ii) analysing the content of international...

Did you know that EU citizenship gives you rights and benefits that are in addition to the rights you enjoy as a citizen of an EU Member State? Not only that, but EU citizenship gives you a voice to shape the future of Europe. Here you'll find everything you need to know about the rights you...

Did you know that EU citizenship gives you rights and benefits that are in addition to the rights you enjoy as a citizen of an EU Member State? Not only that, but EU citizenship gives you a voice to shape the future of Europe. Here you'll find everything you need to know about the rights you...

The Fundamental Rights Report 2025 provides a comprehensive overview of the state of fundamental rights in the European Union, highlighting major developments and trends in 2024. An introductory chapter provides an overview of the fundamental rights landscape in the EU in 2024 in the changing...

The Fundamental Rights Report 2025 provides a comprehensive overview of the state of fundamental rights in the European Union, highlighting major developments and trends in 2024. An introductory chapter provides an overview of the fundamental rights landscape in the EU in 2024 in the changing...

Following more than twelve months' discussion in the Council, the European Union's Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime was adopted in December 2020 - a cause for celebration in the human rights community. Having been designed to address human rights violations as well as abuses and corruption...

Following more than twelve months' discussion in the Council, the European Union's Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime was adopted in December 2020 - a cause for celebration in the human rights community. Having been designed to address human rights violations as well as abuses and corruption...

Transnational repression arises when foreign governments reach across national borders to coerce, control and silence individuals in other countries using a broad range of methods, ranging from digital surveillance to extraterritorial killings. Amongst the primary targets of transnational...

Die öffentliche Diskussion um das Lieferkettengesetz und die Lieferkettenrichtlinie reißt auch Jahre nach dem Inkrafttreten nicht ab. Einerseits äußern sich zahlreiche Stimmen in der Politik öffentlich gegen das Gesetz. Viele Unternehmen, die Erfahrung mit der Umsetzung des Gesetzes...

This Brief examines the challenges in implementing laws protecting women's land rights in Sub-Saharan Africa. While some progress has been made in enacting legal protections, remaining discriminatory legislation, weak enforcement mechanisms, and conflicting rules and norms, notably, those...

Positive obligations stemming from international human rights law require states to realize fundamental rights. This Perspective argues that those human rights obligations may serve as basis for the conceptualization of a duty to regulate in investment law. Furthermore, it reflects on the...

The aim of paper is to define differences between Czech legislation and European law established by law or other valid legal regulations and to point out key areas that are different and key principles for transfer of European and Czech human rights and responsibilities arising employment legal...

The war in Sudan, which broke out on 15 April 2023 between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), has triggered the largest humanitarian crisis in the world. Civilians are being directly attacked by the warring parties. The violent actors are destroying...

This paper elaborates a typology of regionalized abortion policy based on a comparative case study of Italy and the United States. Italy originally legalized abortion in 1978 and has seen little effort to modify the law since. Contrastingly, the United States’ abortion landscape has been in...