Human Rights is one of Lund University’s five profile areas, aiming to improve people’s lives and solve global problems through interdisciplinary research, education, and collaboration.
The Human Rights profile area brings together human rights researchers and educators from law, humanities, theology, social sciences, economics, medicine, technology and the arts. Working closely with local, national and international organisations, our researchers develop methods, policies and strategies to help secure human rights and promote a fairer and more democratic world. Among the global challenges that are at the top of our agenda are the growing inequality between rich and poor, refugee and migrant movements, global health, the climate crisis, conflicts, and new technologies. Researchers within our network pay particular attention to the impact and consequences of a polarised world on global norms, practices, actors and institutions in the field of human rights.
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We collaborate with our partners at Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law and the Swedish Institute for Human Rights, both based in Lund.
For general enquiries: info@humanrights.lu.se
Management team
Coordinator: Lena Halldenius, Professor of Human Rights Studies
Deputy coordinator (research): Jessica Almqvist, Professor of Human Rights Law
Assistant coordinator (external collaboration): Anette Agardh, Professor of Global Health
Assistant coordinator (education): Martin Andersson, Associate Professor of Economic History
Administrator: Ilona Karppinen
Board
Chair: Annika Olsson, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering
External representative: Rebecka Lettevall, Pro-vice-chancellor, Malmö University
External representative: Morten Kjaerum, Director, Raoul Wallenberg Institute
The board also has one member from each of the seven participating faculties.