Transforming Human Rights

The Cluster of Excellence “Transforming Human Rights” seeks to revisit the potential of human rights as a universalistic framework for addressing fundamental changes that shape our times in political, economic, social, ecological and technological contexts.

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28OCT 2026
Allgemein
Ligia Bolívar honored with Human Rights Award
You can find the German version of this article on the CHREN website. Award Presented for the First Time Under Its New Name, the “FAU Rudolf Benario Human Rights Award” The Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU) has awarded this year’s FAU Human Rights Award to Venezuelan sociologist and human rights activist Prof. Ligia Bolívar. Bolívar […]
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26AUG 2026
Allgemein
Insights from the Methods Lab
This summer, “Transforming Human Rights” organized a Methods Lab summer school in collaboration with the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, bringing together people from Nuremberg, Oxford, Buenos Aires, and many other places to have discussions on the methodological dimensions of human rights research. Participants benefited from masterclasses on topics such as doctrine and mixed methods, […]This summer, “Transforming Human Rights” organized a Methods Lab summer school in collaboration with the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, bringing together people from Nuremberg, Oxford, Buenos Aires, and many other places to have discussions on the methodological dimensions of human rights research. Participants benefited from masterclasses on topics such as doctrine and mixed methods, […]
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06AUG 2026
News
Human Rights Clinic Student Projects: Calls for Application
Student Projects for the Winter Semester 2026/27 The FAU CHREN Human Rights Clinic is offering three interdisciplinary student projects for the upcoming winter semester. Students are invited to apply until 15 September 2026. Supervised by researchers from the Cluster of Excellence “Transforming Human Rights”, the projects provide an opportunity to engage with current human rights […]
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