Human Rights and Development
This thematic group studies how human rights protection and implementation are advanced or obstructed by development policies by states, international institutions, and private commercial and non-commercial actors.
Illustration: Marie Therese Borgersen Kvamme
About the group
The group is multidisciplinary and addresses issues that range from the local to the global. One of the main goals of the group is to create an academic environment in which human rights-based approaches to development can be empirically tested and conceptually refined.
Read more about our research goals.
Projects
From 2011 to 2014 we have a special focus on disability rights and corporate social responsibility.
Courses
- ERN4323 - Nutrition and Human Rights
- HUMR5702 - Human Rights and Development: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Theory and Practices
Published Feb 23, 2012 01:37 PM
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