Changes and challenges today are varied and some are shared. The development of productive forces is characterised by an accelerated role played by new technologies, digitisation and the use of AI. This has, of course, major implications for the working conditions. The fear of replacement of jobs for humans is as justified as the recognition … Read more
Looking at the etymology of the term riot brings up rather different threads of meanings; we find the following, that are of particular interest: Four concerns in particular mark the protests: • Increasing cost of living; • Public debt • A disastrous state of the educational system but also other public services • A lack … Read more
An important step had been made: The Human Rights Centre at the Law School of Central South University and linked to it the group Human Rights: Universal Global is are listed as ESCR Actors on the UN Human Rights Knowledge Gateway. With this a wider recognition of the work, also on the high level representation … Read more
On 22 September, during the 63rd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, a side event entitled “Diverse Pathways of National Human Rights Action Plans” was held in Geneva, Switzerland. The event was hosted by the China Society for Human Rights Studies and organized by the Central South University Human Rights Center. Experts, scholars … Read more
As developed elsewhere: while Trump and more in general the fact that we are sitting on a tinder box should not be underestimated, it is important not to individualise the problem and reduce things on Trump as evil after whom’s disappearance and a bit of tidying up the rubbish pile, the world will be good … Read more
Public Discussion. Organised by the Group Human Rights ~ Universal, Global PRESENTATION BY Theophilus Edwin Coleman & Zeinab A. Ayariga. Co-Founders, Labour Law Society of Ghana Rescheduled: 25.09.2026 : 13:00 COPENHAGEN/ 19:00 BEIJING ABSTRACT Labour law and practice are undeniably at a cusp of structural and legal shifts in many jurisdictions, including Ghana. These changes … Read more
The next HRUG Open Talk is scheduled for Friday the 31st of July; time: 13:00 Copenhagen/19:00 Beijing ** The presentation on Swiss Migration Law as Labor Law – A Divide and Conquer Device that Serves Economic Interests will be made by Natalie Benelli and is followed by discussion (Moderator Joe Finnerty, University College Cork) Abstract: The working population in … Read more
A new document is added to the HRUG-Working paper Series Mehmet Okyayuz / Edip Hakkı Erdem: The Enforcement of ‘Absolute Nullity’: More Than a Party Congress Decision The ongoing political public debate revolves around the question whether the decisions of a political party reflected during the congress of a political party can be retroactively annulled … Read more
Abstract The European Commission frequently presents “European values” as both universally valid and distinctly European—a fascinating tension. In this lecture, Eric Hendriks offers a conceptual genealogy of this paradox, tracing the historical interaction between universalist and particularist currents within European modernity. The European Commission’s contemporary self-universalization belongs to a tradition that emerged from the universalist … Read more
The recent HRUG-Talk, Looking Behind the papers is now online. The presentation by Shenfei Zhou, PhD candidate at the Human Rights Centre of Central South University. She recently completed an internship at the UN OHCHR Regional Office for Europe. looked at the following: A series of recent setbacks, including State withdrawals from international organisations and … Read more