Centre for Fundamental Rights - Hertie School

Today at 7 pm!
Prof Violeta Moreno-Lax delivers the Opening Keynote at the Vienna Centre for Migration & Law inaugural conference
🎤 The Future of EU Migration and Asylum Policy: Strategic (De)personification and Selective Rightlessness.
📍 Halle U10, Faculty of Law
💻 Zoom: vesna.roch@univie.ac.at

Now, on the sidelines of the Human Rights Council in Geneva. Algorithmic Fairness in Asylum Seekers and Refugees Project in spotlight. @volkswagenstiftung.de

Back for the second day of Centre’s Research Methods in Fundamental Rights Workshop with Prof Mikael Madsen with a hands-on training on using interviews to study legal processes.
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@hertieschool.bsky.social

This morning, we kicked off the 2025 edition of Research Methods in Fundamental Rights Workshop with Violeta Moreno-Lax, Visiting Professor at the Hertie School, delivering the welcome words.
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Two years after joining our panel on Search and rescue in the Mediterranean Sea, Sasha Ockenden shares testimonies from 64 survivors rescued by Humanity 1, exposing the deadly effects of the EU's migration policies, in a new report for @sos-humanity.bsky.social
🔗 https://tinyurl.com/yc52zmxz

"𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿, 𝗶𝗳 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘂𝗻𝗽𝗼𝗽𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿?" @silviasteininger.bsky.social unpacks in a timely post @verfassungsblog.de, how nine member states are challenging the ECtHR's migration and asylum standards.
🔗https://tinyurl.com/2s3yppj9

The fourth year the University is collaborating with @hertiecfr.bsky.social & second time for me! This year, we focussed on the implementation of Basu v Germany (racial profiling)

Join this 1-day conference in Oxford on climate remedies in human rights law, part of the VW-funded project Framing Reality & Normativity in European Human Rights Law, hosted at the Centre for Fundamental Rights.
Register to participate online: https://tinyurl.com/5xrhf4w8

If you're in Madrid on 2 June, don't miss the public keynote on migrant solidarities (16–18h), part of a workshop co-hosted by the Centre for Fundamental Rights & co-convened by Prof Violeta Moreno-Lax.
Register here: https://tinyurl.com/4wspup34

Yesterday, researchers from the project "Deep Impact through Soft Jurisprudence?" funded by @dfg.de held a seminar at the UN in Geneva with the Petitions Unit at the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, sharing findings on how to make treaty body case law clearer and more accessible.

Centre researchers joined the 2nd AjV Colloquium at the Hertie School with contributions from #AFAR's Dr Mirko Đuković, Anastasiia Zhuravel & alum Joseph Finnerty. Topics ranged from cyber-attacks to reproductive rights to treaty interpretation. @ajv-ayils.bsky.social

We are hearing our panel was a great success. 😇🙌🏻

Are you attending the ‪@cpdpconferences.bsky.social conference today? We are the organisers of this year's 𝘤𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘦𝘭!
The discussion will be grounded in the #𝗔𝗙𝗔𝗥 project.
𝟭𝟳.𝟮𝟬 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗲 𝗛𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲!
https://tinyurl.com/42ffau5n

Former HRW Director @kennethroth.bsky.social joined us @hertieschool.bsky.social for a timely conversation on the state of human rights, co-hosted with Bard College Berlin. With insights from Kaleck @ecchr.bsky.social, Sandmann & Makichyan.
Read our event highlight here: https://tinyurl.com/mcymfpa

Another full house today for a discussion with @kennethroth.bsky.social , joined by @ecchr.bsky.social's Wolfgang Kaleck, activist Arshak Makichyan & Katrin Sandmann of Kobalt Documentary.

The stage is set for a powerful evening on the state of human rights with @kennethroth.bsky.social, joined by @ecchr.bsky.social's Wolfgang Kaleck, activist Arshak Makichyan & Katrin Sandmann of Kobalt Documentary. Friday, 7 PM @hertieschool.bsky.social
Register: https://tinyurl.com/3x4p4x7w

📣 Happening tomorrow!
Happy to support the panel discussion on how frontline activists support people on the move across land, sea & air. W/ #kabulluftbrücke, @sea-watch.org & Project Elpida. Organised by the Resist and Act Collective & moderated by Violeta Moreno-Lax.
https://tinyurl.com/2w4pybkk

Have you saved your spot yet? Kenneth Roth, former Executive Director of Human Rights Watch, joins us this Friday, 7pm @hertieschool.bsky.social to discuss global state of human rights in the world today. Co-hosted with @bardcollege.bsky.social
Register here: https://tinyurl.com/3x4p4x7w

Can cosmopolitanism survive the anti-liberal turn?
Join us 13 May, 6–8 pm @hertieschool.bsky.social for a talk by Detlef von Daniels on rethinking cosmopolitanism in an age of crisis.
No registration needed. Just come, hear, and discuss.
📍 Room 2.32, Hertie School (on-site)

On 16 May, join us for a conversation with Ken Roth, former Executive Director of Human Rights Watch, on the 𝗚𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗥𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀. Roth led HRW for nearly three decades, tackling urgent human rights issues worldwide.
Register here: https://tinyurl.com/3x4p4x7w

This week, we had one and only @lyskulamadayil.bsky.social in my Human Rights & Global Governance class. Lys shared valuable insights into the role of special sapporteurs within the UN system, the mandate of the SP on the Right to Food, and the recent report on starvation. @hertiecfr.bsky.social

Protecting the Digital Rights of Asylum Seekers and Refugees As displaced populations increasingly interact with technologies, effective digital rights protection is more urgent than ever. This panel discusses the role data protection law plays in safeguarding the rights of asylum seekers and refugees. It examines the legal and practical challenges that arise in ensuring privacy, consent, and fairness for these vulnerable individuals. Our panel aims to foster a collaborative dialogue between academia (particularly researchers of the AFAR project), NGOs, and data protection authorities to close gaps between law and practice and to empower displaced individuals to exercise their digital rights. To create a dynamic session, we will invite stakeholders from the fields of Data Privacy and New Technologies to attend our panel as guests. These stakeholders will be engaged during the Q&A session to provide additional perspectives and foster a vibrant, interdisciplinary exchange of ideas. Questions to be answered: - What specific challenges do asylum seekers and refugees face in enforcing their digital rights? - How can data protection officers (DPOs) and related professionals make use of emerging regulations like the AI Act to safeguard privacy and fairness for asylum seekers and refugees? - What role does collaboration among data protection authorities, NGOs, and academia play in protecting digital rights for displaced populations? - How can digital rights frameworks for asylum seekers and refugees be strengthened to address the challenges posed by surveillance and automation? Organised by Centre for Fundamental Rights - Hertie School with Cathryn Costello (moderator), FRANCESCA PALMIOTTO, Derya Ozkul, Joanna Parkin, Eleftherios Chelioudakis More information: https://cpdp.be/2851

Protecting the Digital Rights of Asylum Seekers and Refugees

Organised by @hertiecfr.bsky.social with @profccostello.bsky.social (moderator), @francescapalmiotto.bsky.social, @deryaozkul.bsky.social, Joanna Parkin, Eleftherios Chelioudakis

More information: cpdp.be/2851
#CPDP.ai #CPDP2025 #asylum

Ready for the last session of our #AFAR Colloquium this Spring semester?
Churchill Fellow Katie Schwarzmann will discuss 'Automated Recommendation-Making Tools in Immigration Systems' in the aptly-titled 'The Computer Says So'
Register here: https://tinyurl.com/28jnzrbj

It was a privilege to speak at the 🇵🇱 EU presidency event on the role of civil society in protecting the rule of law

I talked about “scholactivism”

You can 👀 a recording here: www.youtube.com/live/SSp7icB... (as of 6h56m36s)

@rechten050.bsky.social
@hertiecfr.bsky.social
@verfassungsblog.de

On European human rights, frames, and critique.

@jtheilen.bsky.social and I had a very insightful conversation with Daniela Rau from Völkerrechtsblog about studying European human rights, authoritarianism, climate change, and migration through the lenses of critique and framing.

I had a fantastic week at @eui-eu.bsky.social thanks to generous funding from @civica.bsky.social 🇮🇹📚☕ thanks to the team @hertieschool.bsky.social for giving me the opportunity to explain what a "faculty short visit" entails & how CIVICA supports our research methods workshop @hertiecfr.bsky.social

Join us at 12:00pm today for the next session of our Spring Colloquium!
We're excited to welcome not one but two #AFAR researchers: PI @profccostello.bsky.social and @francescapalmiotto.bsky.social
🔗 Register: https://tinyurl.com/48etxh95

What drives public views of fairness in asylum decisions?
New paper by #AFAR researchers Dr Lenka Dražanová & Prof Martin Ruhs shows how moral foundations, like care, loyalty, and authority, shape opinions in 🇩🇪 & 🇮🇹.
Read it here 👉 https://hdl.handle.net/1814/78296

Over 100 NGOs have used Prof Violeta Moreno-Lax's study to challenge the EU's migrant smuggling reforms. The study, conducted for the European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS), warns the reforms could criminalise migrants & human rights defenders.
More here: https://tinyurl.com/y47wwuwz

Next up! Not one but two #AFAR researchers are joining our next Spring Colloquium session on 23 April!
Hear from PI @profccostello.bsky.social and @francescapalmiotto.bsky.social on "Theories of Procedural Fairness and their Implications for Automation."
Register here: https://tinyurl.com/48etxh95