Relations between Europe and Africa are entering a delicate new phase. With the Cotonou Partnership Agreement expiring in 2020 and […]
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Category: Human Rights & Migration
“Not So Global, Not So Compact. Reflections on the Shitstorm Surrounding the Global Compact for Migration”, Ferruccio Pastore (IAI, Italy)
On 19 December 2018, an overwhelming majority of the UN General Assembly (152 votes in favour, 12 abstentions and five […]
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“The Arctic Railway and the Sámi: Reconciling national interests with indigenous rights”, Agne Cepinskyte (FIIA, Finland)
“The Arctic Railway and the Sámi: Reconciling national interests with indigenous rights”, Agne Cepinskyte, 12 2018 Finland and Norway are […]
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“Is the EU lost at sea? The EUGS and the implementation of a joined-up approach to migration”, Maria Giuliano Amadio Viceré (IAI, Italy)
“Is the EU lost at sea? The EUGS and the implementation of a joined-up approach to migration”, Maria Giuliano Amadio […]
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“Policies and Politics of Migration towards the European Union”, Maria Saide Liperi, Asli Selin Okyay (IAI, Italy)
On 6 December 2018, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Rome (FES) and Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI) co-organized the conference “External Borders and Internal Divisions […]
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Contemporary forms of slavery, Silvia Scarpa
TEPSA has recently coordinated a study for the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI), authored by Dr Silvia Scarpa […]
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“Migration Dynamics in Play in Morocco: Trafficking and Political Relationships and their implications at the Regional Level”, Mehdi Lahlou (IAI, Italy)
Mehdi Lahlou, Migration Dynamics in Play in Morocco: Trafficking and Political Relationships and their implications at the Regional Level, MENARA Papers, Working […]
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“Turkey’s presidential system and the Kurds: Increased resentment, fragmentation, or deal-making?”, Toni Alaranta (FIIA, Finland)
Toni Alaranta, Turkey’s presidential system and the Kurds: Increased resentment, fragmentation, or deal-making?, 11.2018 The Kurds are an ethnic group of approximately […]
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Rule of law and human rights in Cuba and Venezuela and EU engagement, Par Egstrom, Giulia Bonacquisti (European Parliament)
TEPSA has recently coordinated a publication for the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI) on “Rule of law and human rights […]
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“The European Council and migration: any progress?”, Carmen González Enríquez (Elcano, Spain)
The results of the European Council of June 28 2016 on migration were weak for their vagueness, but at least they avoided […]
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“Turkey’s Migration Policy Revisited: (Dis)Continuities and Peculiarities”, Seçil Paçacı Elitok (IAI, Italy)
The 2000s witnessed the restructuring of Turkey’s migration policy, mostly because of the EU accession process. In retrospect, Turkey’s migration […]
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Universal jurisdiction and international crimes: Constraints and best practices, Florian Jeßberger, Julia Krebs, Cedric Ryngaert (European Parliament)
TEPSA has recently coordinated a publication for the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI) on “Universal jurisdiction and international crimes: Constraints […]
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“EU Migration Policy and Regional Integration in Africa: a New Challenge for European Policy Coherence”, Luca Barana (IAI, Italy)
As intra-European tensions on migration policy rage on, more attention should be devoted to the long-term consequences of the EU’s […]
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“Le gouvernement des migrations en Tunisie : Vers un nouveau paradigme?”, Jean-Pierre Cassarino (CoE, Poland)
En dépit de sa perméabilité aux influences extérieures, le pouvoir en Tunisie n’est jamais resté passif face aux injonctions émanant […]
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“A Disputed Sea: from Rescue to the Fight Against Traffickers”, Blanca Garcés Mascareñas (CIDOB, Spain)
Since 2013, more than 16,000 more deaths have been counted in the Mediterranean – not including the disappeared who do […]
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“Bottom-up Approaches to EU–Turkey Migration Cooperation: A Call for Sustainable, Principled, Fair and Inclusive Governance”, Asli Selin Okyay (IAI, Italy)
Based on stakeholder consultations in Turkey, this report examines civil society actors’ views on policy issues regarding migration and mobility, […]
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“Beyond the European Council: Domestic Politics Drives the Migration “Crisis” in Italy and Germany”, Gianni Bonvicini (IAI, Italy)
EU migration policy emerged as the main bone of contention at the recent European Council meeting on 28-29 June 2018. […]
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“Migration to the Gulf : policies in sending and receiving countries”, Philippe Fargues and Nasra M. Shah (Robert Schuman Centre, Italy)
International migration is an ubiquitous reality in the Gulf States where foreign citizens are a majority in the workforce as […]
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“The challenges of the IOM in a migration tricky era”, Patrícia Lisa (Elcano, Spain)
The Portuguese António Vitorino will head the International Organization for Migration (IOM) for the next five years from 1 October. He will […]
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“The vulnerability to exploitation of women migrant workers in agriculture in the EU: the need for a Human Rights and Gender based approach”, Letizia Palumbo and Alessandra Sciurba (Robert Schuman Centre, Italy)
The study aims to explore, through a qualitative approach, the conditions characterising migrant women’s employment in EU rural areas and […]
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“Assessing EU Democracy and Human Rights Policies from the Perspective of Tunisian Bottom-Up Actors”, Asma Nouira and Hamadi Redissi (IAI, Italy)
This report is part of a series of working papers to provide an understanding and assessment of EU democracy and […]
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“Reversing the Perspective: How European Stakeholders React to Migration Policy Frames of Southern Mediterranean Counterparts”, Emanuela Roman (IAI, Italy)
This paper investigates how European institutional and civil society actors frame and assess EU migration policies in the Mediterranean area. […]
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“Italian and Spanish approaches to external migration management in the Sahel: venues for cooperation and coherence” (Elcano, Spain; IAI, Italy)
This paper is the result of a joint project by the Istituto Affari Internazionali (Rome) and the Elcano Royal Institute, promoted by […]
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Human rights in Belarus: The EU’s role since 2016, Giselle Bosse and Alena Vieira (European Parliament)
TEPSA has recently coordinated a study for the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI) on Human rights in Belarus – The […]
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“The challenge of researching “partial exit” and “rootedness” among upper-middle classes in European cities”, Alberta Andreotti, Patrick Le Galès, Francesco Javier Moreno-Fuentes (SciencesPo – CNRS, France)
The rise of mobilities has paved the way for important changes within cities and the possibility for urban upper-middle classes […]
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Targeted sanctions against individuals on grounds of grave human rights violations – impact, trends and prospects at EU level, Clara Portela (European Parliament)
TEPSA has recently coordinated a publication for the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI) on Enhancing EU actions on economic, […]
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“Prioritising People and Planet – A New Agenda for Global Progress. Proposals by the ‘Pascal Lamy Group’”, András Inotai et al (IWE, Hungary)
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Enhancing EU actions on economic, social and cultural rights within its human rights policy, Annabel Egan, Ireland; Laurent Pech, Colm O’Cinneide (European Parliament)
TEPSA has recently coordinated a publication for the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI) on Enhancing EU actions on economic, […]
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“Language Rights in the Work of the Advisory Committee”, Petra Roter, Brigitta Busch (CIR, Slovenia)
in: I. Ulasiuk, L. Hadîrcă & W. Romans (Eds.), Language Policy and Conflict Prevention (pp.155-181), Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill | Nijhoff. […]
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“Russia in the Council of Europe: Participation à la carte”, Petra Roter (CIR, Slovenia)
in: L. Mälksoo & W. Benedek (Eds.), Russia and the European Court of Human Rights: The Strasbourg Effect (European Inter-University […]
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Expansion of the concept of human rights: Impact on rights promotion and protection, Giulia Bonacquisti, Rosa Freedman, Malcolm Langford (European Parliament)
TEPSA has recently coordinated a publication for the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI) on the Expansion of the concept […]
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“The revolution of Muslim women”, Andrés Ortega (Elcano, Spain)
Elcano Blog In 2004 the sociologists Ronald Inglehart and Pippa Norris argued that the real clash was not between civilisations, as […]
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“Democracies on the back foot”, Andrés Ortega (Elcano, Spain)
Elcano Blog Democracies have put themselves on the back foot, forgetting at times their raison d’être. Read it here
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“Gender equality in Trump’s America”, María Solanas (Elcano, Spain)
What has been the impact of Donald Trump’s decisions and public policies on the rights and liberties of women during […]
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The weaknesses of Spanish emigration, Carmen González Enríquez, José Pablo Martínez Romera (Elcano, Spain)
in Analyses of the Elcano Royal Institute (ARI), 24 January 2018 The Spaniards who have emigrated to other countries since the […]
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Human rights in Ukraine and the EU response, including relevant activities of the European Parliament, András Rácz, Narine Ghazaryan, Sergiy Gerasymchuk (European Parliament)
TEPSA has recently coordinated a publication for the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI) on Human rights in Ukraine and […]
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Containing the Refugee Crisis: How the EU Turned the Balkans and Turkey into an EU Borderland, Jonathan Zaragoza-Cristiani (IAI, Italy)
in: “The International Spectator”, 52:4 The events that took place during the 2015-16 refugee crisis in the southeastern EU region boosted […]
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The EU-Turkey Deal One Year On: A Delicate Balancing Act, Laura Batalla Adam (IAI, Italy)
in: “The International Spectator”, 52:4, Now in its sixth year, the war in Syria has triggered the largest humanitarian and […]
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The EU and the Sahel: A Laboratory of Experimentation for the Security-Migration-Development Nexus, Bernardo Venturi (IAI, Italy)
in: IAI Working papers, 17:38, Rome The Sahel has become for the European Union an area of experimentation on the […]
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Moral Panics and Punctuated Equilibrium in Public Policy: An Analysis of the Criminal Justice PolicyAgenda in Britain, Colin Hay, Will Jennings, Stephen Farrell et al. (Sciences Po, France)
in: Policy Studies Journal, december 2017, p. 1-28. How and when issues are elevated onto the political agenda is a perennial […]
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The Situation of Indigenous Children with Disabilities, Isabel Inguanzo Ortiz (European Parliament)
TEPSA has recently coordinated a publication for the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI) on The Situation of Indigenous Children […]
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“The challenge of social cohesion: Addressing long-term consequences of the 2015 refugee crisis for Europe”, Bernhard Riederer (ÖGfE, Austria)
Immigrant inflows in 2015 triggered manifold reactions all over Europe. Policies soon turned towards border management, reforms of asylum procedures, […]
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Editing the genome requires global governance, Andrés Ortega (Elcano Institute)
Scientific progress is posing problems that hitherto pertained to the realm of dreams or nightmares but are now part of […]
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The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, Nadia Meeran, (Elcano Institute)
On 27 November more than 2000 representatives of governments, business, international bodies, academia, trade unions, the media and civil society […]
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Investigating Cognitive and Normative Frames of Southern and Eastern Mediterranean Stakeholders on Migration and Mobility Issues, in Their Relations with the EU, Emanuela Roman et. al. (IAI, Italy)
in MedReset Papers, September 2017 This paper outlines the conceptual and methodological guidelines for research in MEDRESET Work Package 7 […]
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Key Issues and Policy Recommendations by The Eighth International Conference “Human Rights and Security Sector Governance: Ukraine’s Reform Challenges” (Razumkov Centre, Ukraine)
This publication offers the Key Issues and Policy Recommendations based on the results of the Eighth International Conference “Human Rights […]
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The Preliminary Legal Opinion from the European Court of Justice, Tamas Lattman (IIR, Czech Republic)
The preliminary legal opinion from the European Court of Justice – maybe it is a green light for the emergency […]
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Migration and the EU Global Strategy: Narratives and Dilemmas, Michela Ceccorulli, Sonia Lucarelli (IAI, Italy)
in The International Spectator, 52/2, September 2017, pp. 83-102. Migration did not figure in the European Security Strategy of 2003. […]
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European Parliament briefing and workshop on “Towards an EU common position on the use of armed drones”, contributions from Jessica Dorsey and Giulia Bonacquisti (European Parliament)
TEPSA has recently coordinated a workshop and a publication for the European Parliament’s Subcommittee the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights […]
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Sharing the Responsibility or Shifting the Focus? The Responses of the EU and the Visegrad Countries to the Post-2015 Arrival of Migrants and Refugees, Boldizsár Nagy (IAI, Italy)
The key research question of this paper is why the Visegrad group countries (the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia) […]
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Conference report: Les enjeux européens dans la présidentielle française, comptes-rendus (Sciences Po)
Les Cahiers européens de Sciences Po: cycle de conférences “Les enjeux européens dans la présidentielle française”, comptes-rendus L’Europe d’aujourd’hui est […]
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What Happens After Finding Refuge? The Integration of Syrian Refugees in Germany and Turkey, Anja Palm (IAI, Italy)
The Global Turkey in Europe (GTE) project established a platform to discuss and analyse the rapid transformation of Turkey in […]
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The New Frontex and the Future of Schengen: A brick fortress, or a castle made of sand? Teemu Tammikko (FIIA, Finland)
The role and capacity of Frontex have quickly been modified in order to respond to the challenges of irregular migration […]
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Study for the European Parliament: “The EU’s fight against restrictions on civil society”, by Richard Youngs
The European Parliament commissioned TEPSA to coordinate a study on the EU’s response to restrictions on civil society across the […]
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European Parliament workshop on “Human rights in Iran after the nuclear deal: Business as usual or time for change?”, contributions by Giulia Bonacquisti, Nazila Ghanea and Firouzeh Nahavandi
TEPSA coordinated the participation of two academic experts, Nazila Ghanea (University of Oxford) and Firouzeh Nahavandi (Université Libre de Bruxelles) in a […]
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Study for the European Parliament: “Human rights provisions in Economic Partnership Agreements in light of the expiry of the Cotonou Agreement in 2020”, by Lorand Bartels
TEPSA has coordinated a study commissioned by the European parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights, and authored by Prof Lorand Bartels, […]
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A sociology of the camps’ persisting architecture. Why did Rome not put an end to expensive ethnic housing policies?, Tommaso Vitale and Gaia Maestri (Sciences Po)
Housing facilities and public shelters for Roma in Rome are expensive, highly segregated, and low quality. They have been justified […]
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The Refugee Debate in Central and Eastern Europe: Can the EU-Turkey Deal Survive Without Intra EU Convergence on Relocation and Resettlement?, Bianca Benvenuti (IAI, Italy)
The Global Turkey in Europe (GTE) project aims at establishing a platform to discuss and analyse the rapid transformation of […]
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One Year On: An Assessment of the EU-Turkey Statement on Refugees, Ilke Toygür and Bianca Benvenuti (IAI, Italy)
In 2015 the EU faced one of the most severe crises in its entire history. The refugee flows from the […]
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Passing the “hot potatoes”: Croatia and Slovenia as transit countries in the European migration and refugee crisis, Maja Bučar and Marko Lovec (CIR, Slovenia)
The European Institute of the Mediterranean published a Joint Policy Study ‘Mapping Migration Challenges in the EU Transit and Destination […]
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The Saint in the Office: How to Help the Government to be Right, Junjie Ma (CIFE)
Today, the EU is faced with multiple challenges, and it is impossible to count on governments alone to solve all […]
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Mapping migration challenges in the EU transit and destination countries, Erzsébet N. Rózsa (ed.) (IWE, Hungary)
An EuroMesCo – Euro-Mediterranean Study Commission – joint policy study. FOREWORD. Erzsébet Nagyné Rózsa IMPACT OF THE MIGRATION CHALLENGES ON […]
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All’s Wrong That Starts Wrong – Withdrawals from the International Criminal Court, Tamas Lattman (IIR, Czech Republic)
The Hague-based International Criminal Court, the world’s first temporary judicial forum, created in 1998 by the adoption of the Rome […]
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European Parliament Workshop on “Afghanistan: Challenges and Perspectives until 2020”, contributions by Giulia Bonacquisti, Mona Kanwal Sheikh, Arne Strand and Victor Tanzarella
TEPSA coordinated the participation of two academic experts, Mona Kanwal Sheikh (Danish Institute for International Studies) and Arne Strand (Chr. Michelsen Institute), […]
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Study for the European Parliament: “Implementation of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights”, by Beata Faracik
TEPSA coordinated a study for the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI), authored by Beata Faracik, President of the Board of […]
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L’accès à l’eau, Laurent Baechler (CIFE)
Parmi toutes les ressources naturelles sur lesquelles reposent les activités humaines, l’eau se distingue par le fait qu’elle est vitale, […]
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The Migration Paradox and EU-Turkey Relations, Bianca Benvenuti (IAI, Italy)
Since the beginning of the Arab uprisings in 2011 and as a result of growing instability in the region, migration […]
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The EU-Turkey March 2016 Agreement As a Model: New Refugee Regimes and Practices in the Arab Mediterranean and the Case of Libya, Peter Seebert (IAI, Italy)
Taking as its point of departure the EU-Turkey agreement of March 2016 regarding refugees and migrants, this paper analyses the […]
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Migration in Eurasia – the first 25 years of the Post-Soviet era, Irina Molodikova, Tamás Szigetvári (ed.) (IWE, Hungary)
MIGRATION IN THE POST-SOVIET SPACE: AN INTRODUCTION, András Deák – Irina Molodikova – Tamás Szigetvári COMPATRIOTS’ POLICY IN MODERN RUSSIA: […]
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Germany’s role in the handling of the European monetary and refugee crisis, Simon Bulmer and William Paterson (IEP, Germany)
The “Yearbook of European Integration 2016” was published in December 2016, in times of multiple crises as well as growing […]
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Study for the European Parliament: “Monitoring the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals – The role of the data revolution”, by Neil Webster and Helle Munk Ravnborg
TEPSA has recently coordinated a study for the European Parliament’s Committee on Development (DEVE), authored by Neil WEBSTER and Helle Munk RAVNBORG, […]
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Study for the European Parliament: “Conflict and Cooperation over Water – The Role of the EU in Ensuring the Realisation of Human Rights”, by Inga Winkler
TEPSA has recently coordinated a study for the European Parliament Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI), authored by Inga WIinker, Scholar in […]
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Study for the European Parliament: “Trafficking of human organs”, by Michael Bos
TEPSA has recently coordinated a study for the European Parliament Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI), authored by Michael Bos (Eurotransplant International […]
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Study for the European Parliament: “Occupation/Annexation of a Territory: Respect for International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights and Consistent EU Policy”, by Pål Wrange and Sarah Helaoui
TEPSA has recently coordinated a study for the European Parliament Committee on Foreign Affairs, authored by Pål Wrange (Stockholm University, […]
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Study for the European Parliament: “Surveillance and Censorship: The Impact of Technologies on Human Rights”, by Ben Wagner, Joanna Bronowicka, Cathleen Berger and Thomas Behrndt
TEPSA coordinated a study for the European Parliament, authored by Ben Wagner, Joanna Bronowicka, Cathleen Berger and Thomas Behrndt (Centre for […]
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