Human Rights Research League

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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".

Conferences & calls

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".

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