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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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Examples of research projects

The Human Rights Profile Area brings together a wide range of research activities, and it is not possible to capture everything that takes place across the platform. The research clusters below have emerged organically from initiatives among affiliated researchers. Rather than offering a comprehensive overview, they are presented as examples that illustrate the breadth of current human rights research within the Profile Area community. 

Man on a bike on an flooded road. Photo Dibakar Roy on Unsplash.

Migration, conflict, and displacement

Several projects on how migration and displacement are shaped by interconnected legal, political, economic, and environmental factors, with a particular focus on their implications for human rights.

A computer chip with the letters A and I on the top. Photo by Igor Omilaev on Unsplash.

Human rights and new technologies - AI

Several projects on digital inequality and new vulnerabilities emerging in the wake of generative AI and digitisation of public services:

Decorative illustration with a transparant human, molecules and DNA strand.Illustration.

Human rights and new technologies - medicine

Several projects on the use of biotechnology and precision medicine: 

Demonstration under a bridge. Photo by Alex Radelich on Unsplash.

Movements and resistance

Several projects are focused on civil society and social movements, both historically and with a contemporary focus on networking and mobilisation in a digitally connected but also increasingly controlled civic space. 

 

Windmills against an evening sky with a field in the foreground. Photo by Tim van der Kuip on Unsplash.

Human rights in sustainability and development

Several initiatives sit in the intersection between human rights, the green transition, and issues of economic development. 

 

 

Child on a bike. Photo by Barbara Zandoval on Unsplash.

Human rights of children

Last updated: 2 Jul 2026 | info [at] humanrights [dot] lu [dot] se