Third Party Funds Group - Overall project
Acronym: EXC 3039
Start date : 01.01.2026
End date : 31.12.2032
Website: https://www.transforming-human-rights.fau.de/en/
Shedding light on the potential and limitations of human rights
To achieve this goal, we will describe, analyze, and assess how five megatrends, namely autocratization, fragmented economic globalization, international migration, planetary environmental crises and digitalization are transforming human rights, and how in turn human rights can and should transform responses to the megatrends.
Our research focuses on three primary questions:
In what ways do five megatrends that shape our times transform human rights norms, institutions, and practices?
In what ways do and should human rights norms, institutions, and practices transform responses to these megatrends?
In what ways do these transformations affect human rights theory and research and require new concepts and approaches?
We will operationalize our research through three central dimensions of human rights norms:
rights-holders and duty-bearers of human rights (Who?)
content and scope of human rights obligations (What?)
modes of realization and accountability (How?)
The Cluster’s approach rests on an understanding of human rights that draws on legal, social scientific, and philosophical perspectives.