I am delighted to pass along this call for contributions for a very exciting and timely conference: Thicker Notions of Human Rights Accountabilities. The description nicely captures the project:
BACKGROUND
Human rights are increasingly described as in crisis. One reason for this is the fact that current
accountability mechanisms cannot adequately deal with intricate and multilayered human rights violations that occur in rapidly changing and vastly complex social contexts. Thus, if human rights are to continue to offer a widely accepted framework for thinking about (social) justice, we urgently need to reconstruct the very notion of accountability on which it is pinned, so that better protection is offered. In spite of a relatively robust legal framework there is a continued reality of human rights violations and rather low degrees of accountability. This closing conference, ‘Thicker Notions of Human Rights Accountabilities’, revisits the questions of what qualifies as a human rights violation, who holds human rights duties and how to actually deliver human rights accountability in the context of pressing and complex challenges. Our particular concern is the disconnect between the formal legal system and the lived experiences of those who suffer harms that could logically be –but are not yet – understood as a human rights violation. (CfP).
The organizers have identified four themes:
Conference information follows and may be accessed HERE. The Cnference is part of a larger and quite interesting project:
This closing conference is part of the iBOF-funded project ‘Future-proofing human rights: Developing thicker forms of accountability’ project. This project adopts a multi-disciplinary approach that allows us to rethink human rights accountability in the face of current challenges. We do not believe that legal structures can or should be bypassed in the quest for thicker accountability, yet by looking beyond human rights law and even beyond the legal domain, we aim to (also) identify approaches to accountability that (better) capture the experiences and lived realities of rights-holders who have been bypassed by the legal framework altogether. In doing so, we explore different avenues for achieving better human rights protection, which will provide the basis for a more robust conceptualisation of the notion of (human rights) accountability. The project is funded by the Universities of Ghent, Antwerp, Brussels and Hasselt (IBOF Special Research Fund: iBOF/21/031; University of Antwerp Special Research Fund, grant no: 42367, Hasselt University grant code: BOF21IU04).
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