Research themes
Researchers within the Human Rights Profile Area pay particular attention to the impact and consequences of a polarised world on global norms, practices, actors and institutions in the field of human rights.
Research topics at the top of our agenda:
- Human rights & Culture
- Human rights & Disabilities
- Human rights & Economic development
- Human rights & Education
- Human rights & Gender
- Human rights & Health
- Human rights & Migration
- Human rights & Minority status
- Human rights & New technologies
- Human rights & Religion
- Human rights & Sexual and reproductive health
- Human rights & Socio-economic inequalities
- Human rights activism, resistance and protest
- Human rights in conflicts and disasters
- Human rights in history
- Human rights of children and youth
- Human rights, climate crisis, sustainability, green transition
- Human rights, good governance and business practice
- Access to justice
- Freedom of expression and academic freedom
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Human Rights Working Groups
Human Rights Working Groups bring together experts and practitioners from different fields to focus on a particular human rights topic for a set period. The format is open—anyone interested, including those outside Lund University, is welcome to join.