Human Rights Research League

Research. Education. Advocacy. Development. (R.E.A.D.)

Mission statement

The Human Rights Research League (HRRL) is a non-governmental organization in consultative status with the United Nations (ECOSOC) aiming at protecting individuals by placing acts contrary to human rights and international humanitarian law, systemic grievances as well as humanitarian emergencies on the agenda. HRRL seeks to contribute to knowledge and research based public discussion and problem analysis without geographical, political, confessional or other limitations or alignments.

As our name suggests, we are an organization primarily focused on research from the basis of a strong academic foundation. However, we recognize that lasting impact and positive change also depend on connecting academics and practitioners, combining research on root causes of human rights challenges with implementation of projects and policies addressing those grievances. 

To this end, we are engaged in four focus areas: Research. Education. Advocacy. Development. (R.E.A.D.), all with a view to bridging the gap between academic and practical approaches to human rights, and between problem analysis and implementation of solutions.

 

News & reports

 

On the occasion of the 56th Session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Human Rights Research League submitted a Written Statement on 'The Russian Federation's War of Aggression against Ukraine and Abuses of Children's Rights' (UN doc. A/HRC/56/NGO/235) to the United Nations General Assembly. The statement problematized inter alia the militarization of children as part of a Russian policy aimed at forming the loyalty of minors to the use of force in the regulation of interstate relations and underlined the particularly grave consequences of such policies for children in occupied territories. "Ukrainians, especially children, who are under the power of the aggressor state, are not only 'turned' into Russian citizens, but are being turned hostile to Ukraine and the Western world, the starkest contrast to what the Convention on the Rights of the Child envisions in Article 29, where State Parties inter alia agreed that the education of the child shall be directed at 'the development of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms, and for the principles enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations". On behalf of Human Rights Research League, Viktoriia Tsymbaliuk also delivered an oral statement during the Interactive Dialogue with the High Commissioner for Human Rights, urging the international community inter alia to support Ukraine in its efforts to release and repatriate the heavily wounded and seriously ill POWs and civilians from Russian captivity, and activate international mechanisms to ensure justice. For further details, please see the video of the Oral Statement on UN Web TV.

Conferences & calls

Online: NORAD Conference 2021: A New Start - Together or Every State for Itself?, January 26-27, 2021
2021-01-23 10:50 This year's annual NORAD Conference will take on the global pandemic, economic stagnation, greater inequality, threats to democracy and free speech, and related topics that all marked 2020. The NORAD ...
Conference on The ICC's Contribution to the Development and Enforcement of International Humanitarian Law, Palacký University, Faculty of Law, Olomouc, Czech Republic, February 11-12, 2021
2021-01-13 19:15 The Centre for International Humanitarian and Operational Law (CIHOL) and the Palacký University, Faculty of Law, in Olomouc (Czech Republic) have the pleasure to invite you to a conference on the “IC...
ESIL Research Forum, Department of Law, University of Catania, Italy, April 15-16, 2021
2021-01-13 19:14 The next ESIL Research Forum is now reschedueld to take place on 15-16 April 2021 at the Department of Law, University of Catania, Italy. The ESIL Research will address the topic: 'Solidarity: The Que...
Call for Papers: 7th Annual International Refugee Law Student Writing Competition
2021-01-13 00:00 The American Society of International Law's International Refugee Law Interest Group (IRLIG) announces its seventh annual International Refugee Law Student Writing Competition, co-sponsored by the Glo...

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