Track Code
RC26
Track Chairs
Dr. Alex Sander Xavier Pires
Prof. Jędrzej Skrzypczak
Dr. Anju Gupta
Focuses on the development of internationally recognized human rights. Since its inception, RC 26 has pursued the following research themes: Foundations of human rights in the context of political tension between universal human rights and cultural relativism; the nature of human rights as a political concept; the relationship between democracy, development and human rights; the causes of human rights violations; the place held by human rights in foreign policy-making; the role of international governmental and non-governmental organizations; and transitional justice.
Open Panels
- Artificial Intelligence, Human Rights and the Uncertain Future of Democracy
Chair: Dr. Anju Gupta - Artificial Intelligence, Surveillance, and Human Rights: Governance Challenges in Uncertain Democracies
Chair: Mr. Furqan Ahmed - Biometric States and Digital Surveillance: Human Rights in an Age of Datafied Governance
Chair: Dr. Sumant Kumar - Climate Change as a Human Rights Crisis: Justice, Accountability, and Future Generations
Chair: Dr. Priyadarsini Sahu - Disinformation and Human Rights: Challenges for Democracy, Governance and the Rule of Law
Chair: Dr. Alex Sander Xavier Pires - Education for Peace, Democracy and Human Rights: Global Challenges and New Perspectives
Chair: Dr. Alex Sander Xavier Pires - Governing Digital Speech: Political, Legal, and Moral Perspectives on Platform Regulation
Chair: Prof. Jędrzej Skrzypczak - Human Rights at a Crossroads: Political Uses of Universalism in Times of Contestation
Chair: Dr. Lison Guignard - Human Rights in an Age of Polycrisis: Navigating Intersecting Threats to Dignity and Democracy.
Chair: Prof. Cássius Guimarães Chai - Human Rights in the Age of Neoliberal Framework: Reconciling Irreconcilables
Chair: Prof. Biswanath Chakraborty - Human Rights in Uncertain Democracies: Rethinking Governance in Asia with Special Reference to India
Chair: Prof. Dr. Mamta Chandra Shekhar - Life in Truth: The Legacy of Charter '77 and Human Rights-based Dissent in Times of Democratic Backsliding
Chair: Dr. Dagmar Kusa - Privatisation of Censorship and the Commercialisation of Propaganda in the Age of Big Platforms - Rethinking of Censorship and Propaganda in a Changing Global System.
Chair: Dr. Oscar Perez de la Fuente - Shrinking Civic Space: The Global Crackdown on Dissent, NGOs, and Human Rights Defenders
Chair: Dr. Shreesh Kumar Pathak - State Power and Impunity: Custodial Violence, Majoritarianism, and the State of Exception
Chair: Miss Simran Dua - Statelessness, Displacement, and the Rights of the Excluded: Rethinking Protection Regimes
Chair: Dr. Arvind Shukla - Weaponized Interdependence: Sanctions, Supply Chains, and the Geoeconomics of Rivalry
Chair: Dr. Shreesh Kumar Pathak - Who Belongs? Minorities, Human Rights and the Future of Democratic Inclusion
