Human Rights Tracks

In this episode, we speak with Dr Eline Wærp about the increasing digitalisation of EU borders. How is digital technology reshaping migration governance? What are the implications for human rights, and how does this relate to what scholars describe as the “securitisation of mobility”? Dr Wærp guides us through these complex issues, exploring the intersection of technology, politics, and border gov...

In this episode, we talk to Dr Gurgen Petrossian about the dramatic rise in the number of armed conflicts around the world and how international law responds to it. Are we witnessing a "lost era" in international criminal law? Or are these simply persistent challenges international criminal law has always faced? Through an insightful analysis of cases from around the globe, Dr Petrossian walks us...

In this episode, we investigate the possibilities and challenges of building human rights capacity and conducting risk assessments within companies. Our guest is Leonel Lisboa, consultant, Head of the Löning Academy, and PhD researcher in International Law at the Federal University of Minas Gerais. Together, we explore when human rights capacity-building in corporations becomes meaningful — and wh...

In this episode, we explore the transformative potential of social rights with Dr. Octávio Ferraz, Professor at King's College London and Co-Director of the Transnational Law Institute. We discuss the importance of social rights and the challenges that arise when their judicialization is disconnected from egalitarian principles. In other words: how can social rights fulfill their transformative pr...

Am 5. Mai 2025 unterschrieben die Parteivorsitzenden CDU/CSU und SPD den Koalitionsvertrag. Wenig später berichteten Medien, dass man im Kanzleramt einen nationalen Notstand für den Bereich Migration erwäge - der Kanzler dementierte. Dennoch: Die Bundesregierung informiert dieser Tage die Botschafter:innen der Nachbarstaaten über die Grenzverschärfung, die der neue Innenminister Dobrindt angekündi...

In this episode, CHREN postdoctoral researcher Dr Caroline Lichuma guides us through the potential effects - and fall-out - of the "EU Omnibus Simplification Initiative" recently proposed by the European Commission. While the names of the EU directives concerned might sound deterring, do not fear: Carol manages to explain the what’s what in a very comprehensible, even entertaining manner. This way...

In this episode, we are diving a little into legal theory while also discussing the very real, very visible implications and effects of poverty. CHREN postdoctoral researcher Dr Tainá Garcia Maia is sharing insights from her interdisciplinary work at the intersection of (in)equality and poverty with a focus on the practice of Latin American apex courts. Tainá's research interests, furthermore, inc...

This is the second episode of a mini-series exploring the connection between the climate crisis, migration and human rights. This time, Dr Oluwatoyin Adejonwo and Jocelyn Perry help us get to the bottom of how climate change drives displacement and enhances other crises, such as poverty, loss of livelihood, and tensions relating to dwindling resources. We, then, also discuss what is being done in...

We are diving into a mini-series exploring the connection between the climate crisis, migration and human rights. During the first of these episodes, we have the pleasure to talk to Walter Kälin , professor emeritus of international and constitutional law, at the University of Bern, Switzerland. Walter Kälin is the present Envoy of the Chair of the Platform on Disaster Displacement . With his help...

We are proud to launch our new podcast "Human Rights Tracks" with an episode on combatting torture featuring CHREN postdoctoral researcher Dr Janina Heaphy . Janina’s research predominantly revolves around diplomacy, security studies and human rights with one of my projects exploring for instance strategic accountability campaigns against the use of torture and targeted killings in Western counter...