Human Rights Consortium (HRC)
Description
The Human Rights Consortium (HRC) promotes and facilitates human rights research in the UK and internationally. It organises and supports academic, policy and practice-orientated activities on human rights, principally under three key themes: Defending and Securing Human Rights; Environmental Justice; and Promoting minority and Indigenous rights.
Housed within the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, the Human Rights Consortium (HRC) was established in 2009 to facilitate and promote inter-disciplinary research in human rights globally, with a scope that reaches beyond the Commonwealth. They bring together multidisciplinary expertise to provide a national and international collaborative centre for the support, promotion and dissemination of academic and policy work in human rights.
The Human Rights Consortium's mission focuses on enhancing the promotion of the human rights research and related activities of scholars nationally and internationally. It aims to build upon the existing successes, networks and expertise of the School Members’ Institutes and develop a particular forum of discipline-focused human-rights-led activities that would both benefit both the Institutes’ strategies and the School as a whole.
The Consortium’s mission is:
- To organise practice-oriented events on human rights
- To disseminate research on human rights
- To foster national and international networks of human rights academics
- To host visiting fellows working in human rights
- To enhance the teaching and learning environment for graduate students
Offers funding
No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.
Founding year
2009
Contact details
Senate House
Malet Street
London
WC1E 7HU
United Kingdom
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Parent infrastructure(s)
Institute of Commonwealth Studies (ICWS)
The Institute of Commonwealth Studies (ICWS) is the sole postgraduate academic institution in the United Kingdom dedicated to the examination of the Commonwealth and its member states. It proudly hous… read more about Institute of Commonwealth Studies (ICWS)
University Of London
Senate House
Malet Street
London
WC1E 7HU
United Kingdom
University affiliation(s)
University of London
London
Partner Infrastructures
Minority Rights Solidarity Network
The network composes of a group of academics and practitioners working in the field of minority rights (in different ways and in different disciplines). Many but not all of them are currently based in… read more about Minority Rights Solidarity Network
Brighton
Additional Partnerships
Academic Freedom and Internationalisation Working Group (AFIWG); BSA Sociology of Rights Study Group, British Sociological Association; Eradicating Ecocide initiative; Tom Lantos Institute, Hungary; Ludovika University of Public Service, Hungary
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2026-10-05 09:19:15