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Joint Initiative on Migration

Hertie School Centre for Fundamental Rights and The Gere Foundation launch a Joint Initiative on Migration.
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Join the Centre as a postdoctoral researcher in the Collisions project

The successful candidate will join the research project COLLISIONS, led by Violeta Moreno-Lax and will contribute to teaching for the MIA programme at the Hertie School in International Law.
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Keynote conversation on the fragile yet essential role of top courts

The annual Centre for Fundamental Rights panel explored the growing pressures facing human rights adjudicative bodies amid fundamental challenges.
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Denmark’s 'Ghetto Laws' and Germany’s cityscape debate

Denmark’s “Ghetto Laws” show how far states may go in regulating urban diversity. In a FAZ op-ed, Silvia Steininger explores what this means for Germany’s cityscape debate.
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Nominations for 2026 Human Rights Master’s Thesis Award

The Centre for Fundamental Rights is pleased to announce the 2026 Hertie School Human Rights Master’s Thesis Award.
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Carla Hinrichs discusses climate activism and the future of democracy at the Hertie School

The climate activist and author discussed the criminalisation of climate protest and the fragility of democratic participation in an event hosted by the Student Advisory Board of the Centre for Fundamental Rights.
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Collisions

Funded by the Wübben Foundation, this project will examine which values matter and why, which role values play, and how clashes between them can and/or should be approached from a law and governance perspective.
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Initiative on Migration

Launched jointly with The Gere Foundation, this initiative examines state policies on migration, border control, and development aid, their consequences and interconnections, while exploring principled alternatives for meaningful change.
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Navigating Human Rights in Armed Conflict: Interactions and Implications

This PhD research project aims to investigate how International Human Rights Law (IHRL) is understood by the courts and quasi-adjudicatory bodies, states, and civil society organisations working on cases of human rights violations during armed conflict.
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