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- Eva Brems (UGent) , Laurens Lavrysen (UGent) and Lieselot Verdonck (UGent)
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- This policy and practice note explores the possibilities of a vision of human rights protection that conceives of universities as human rights actors. This vision is situated in the broader human rights context, in which it is increasingly recognized that non-traditional human rights actors, rather than only the central government level, also bear responsibilities in the field of human rights. Given their crucial societal role, it is argued that universities should similarly take up their human rights responsibility. This note will present the case study of the human rights policy of Ghent University (Belgium), which applies to that university's international relations, as a good practice of how the human rights responsibility of universities can be operationalized. The paper concludes with a number of critical reflections.
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- Human Rights responsibility, impact assessment, self-regulation, university
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8615589
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- Brems, Eva, et al. “Universities as Human Rights Actors.” JOURNAL OF HUMAN RIGHTS PRACTICE, edited by Paul Gready, vol. 11, no. 1, 2019, pp. 229–38, doi:10.1093/jhuman/huz012.
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- Brems, E., Lavrysen, L., & Verdonck, L. (2019). Universities as human rights actors. JOURNAL OF HUMAN RIGHTS PRACTICE, 11(1), 229–238. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhuman/huz012
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- Brems, Eva, Laurens Lavrysen, and Lieselot Verdonck. 2019. “Universities as Human Rights Actors.” Edited by Paul Gready. JOURNAL OF HUMAN RIGHTS PRACTICE 11 (1): 229–38. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhuman/huz012.
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- Brems, Eva, Laurens Lavrysen, and Lieselot Verdonck. 2019. “Universities as Human Rights Actors.” Ed by. Paul Gready. JOURNAL OF HUMAN RIGHTS PRACTICE 11 (1): 229–238. doi:10.1093/jhuman/huz012.
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- 1.Brems E, Lavrysen L, Verdonck L. Universities as human rights actors. Gready P, editor. JOURNAL OF HUMAN RIGHTS PRACTICE. 2019;11(1):229–38.
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- [1]E. Brems, L. Lavrysen, and L. Verdonck, “Universities as human rights actors,” JOURNAL OF HUMAN RIGHTS PRACTICE, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 229–238, 2019.
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abstract = {{This policy and practice note explores the possibilities of a vision of human rights protection that conceives of universities as human rights actors. This vision is situated in the broader human rights context, in which it is increasingly recognized that non-traditional human rights actors, rather than only the central government level, also bear responsibilities in the field of human rights. Given their crucial societal role, it is argued that universities should similarly take up their human rights responsibility. This note will present the case study of the human rights policy of Ghent University (Belgium), which applies to that university's international relations, as a good practice of how the human rights responsibility of universities can be operationalized. The paper concludes with a number of critical reflections.}},
author = {{Brems, Eva and Lavrysen, Laurens and Verdonck, Lieselot}},
editor = {{Gready, Paul}},
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journal = {{JOURNAL OF HUMAN RIGHTS PRACTICE}},
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language = {{eng}},
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title = {{Universities as human rights actors}},
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