RC26 - Human Rights

Chair

Prof. Jędrzej Skrzypczak, Adam Mickiewicz University
jedrzej.skrzypczak@gmail.com

Adam Mickiewicz University
Uniwersytetu Poznańskiego 5
Poznań,Greater Poland Voivodeship, 61-614
Poland

Chair-Elect

Alex Sander Xavier Pires, Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa (UAL)
asxpires@gmail.com

Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa (UAL)
Department of Law Palácio dos Condes de Redondo
Rua de Santa Marta, 56
Lisboa, 1169-023
Portugal

Vice-Chair

Dr. Oscar Pérez de la Fuente, Carlos III University of Madrid
oscar.perez@uc3m.es

Department of International and Eclesiastical law and Philosophy of Law
Office 15.2.61, c/ Madrid
126 28903 Getafe
Spain

Secretaries

Furqan Ahmed, South Asia Research Institute for Minorities SARIM
furqan@sarimwatch.org

Pakistan

Board members

Anju Gupta, JECRC University, Jaipur (Rajasthan), India, anjugupta33@gmail.com

Cássius Guimarães Chai, Universidade Federal do Maranhão, Brazil, Cassiuschai@gmail.com

Radwan Ziadeh, Arab Center Washington DC, United States, radwan.ziadeh@gmail.com


Advisory Board

Prof. Zehra Arat, University of Connecticut, zehra.arat@uconn.edu (Chair RC26 2006-2012)

Mikyoung Kim, Visiting Research Professor Emory University, USA, mkkim_33@hotmail.com (Chair of RC26 2016-2018)

Anja Mihr, Humboldt-Viadrina Governance Platform and University of Erfurt, Germany, amihr@governance-platform.org (Chair of RC26 2014-2016)

Prof. Alexander Sungurov, National Research University Higher School of Economics – City of St-Petersburg, Russia, asungurov@mail.ru   asungurov@hse.ru (Chair of RC26 2018-2021)

Füsun Türkmen, Galatasaray University, Turkey, fturkmen@gsu.edu.tr (Chair of RC26 2012-2014)

Background

Recognised as study group in 1980; granted research committee status in 1987.

Objectives

Focuses on the development of internationally recognized human rights. Since its inception, RC 26 has pursued the following research themes: Foundations of human rights in the context of political tension between universal human rights and cultural relativism; the nature of human rights as a political concept; the relationship between democracy, development and human rights; the causes of human rights violations; the place held by human rights in foreign policy-making; the role of international governmental and non-governmental organizations; and transitional justice.

Website

http://rc26.ipsa.org/