Current Research Projects

Currently, the group is carrying out three extensive research topics: on the one hand, history of Human Rights, on the other hand, research on the basic contemporary challenges of Human Rights and, lastly, analysis of equality and non-discrimination on vulnerable groups.

History of Human Rights

Objectives

diachronic analysis of Human Rights, with the aim of analyzing the materials that reflect Human Rights in their ethical, political and legal dimension in the History of Ideas and History of Law and Institutions.

Participation

More than 100 researchers from 35 Spanish and foreign universities have been under the group’s direction.

Results

• AA.VV., Historia de los Derechos Fundamentales Tomo I: Tránsito a la Modernidad, Siglos XVI y XVII, Instituto de Derechos Humanos "Bartolomé de las Casas"-Ed. Dykinson, Madrid 1998. (Various Authors, History of Fundamental Rights Volume 1: Transition to Modernity, 16 th and 17 th Centuries, Human Rights Institute “Bartolomé de las Casas”-Dykinson, Madrid 1998)
• AA.VV., Historia de los Derechos Fundamentales Tomo II: Siglo XVIII, Instituto de Derechos Humanos "Bartolomé de las Casas"-Ed. Dykinson, Madrid, 2001, 3 volúmenes. (Various authors, History of Fundamental Rights, Volume 2: 18 th Century, Human Rights Institute “Bartolomé de las Casas”-Dykinson, Madrid, 2001, 3 volumes)
• AA.VV., Historia de los Derechos Fundamentales Tomo II: Siglo XIX, Instituto de Derechos Humanos "Bartolomé de las Casas"-Ed. Dykinson, Madrid, 2008, 5 volúmenes. (Various authors, History of Fundamental Rights, Volume 2: 19 th Century, Human Rights Institute “Bartolomé de las Casas”-Dykinson, Madrid, 2008, 5 volumes.)

Equality, Non-discrimination and Vulnerable groups

Objectives

Research on the situation and recognition of Human Rights in different groups.

Participation

More than 50 researchers under the group’s direction.

Results

Publications and reports for public and private institutions on disability, children, elderly, women, immigrants, sickly, etc.

Current situation

Developing different projects on:

• The impact of the International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Spanish internal rule of law.
• Discrimination due to HIV.
• Women’s Rights.
• Creation and development of an electronic mediation and arbitration system.

The challenges of Human Rights in the 21st Century

Objectives

Study of the basic challenges that Human Rights face in the 21 st century.

Participation

• The group collaborates with 11 other research groups.
• Human Rights Institute, Universitat de València. Link.
• Human Rights Institute “Pedro Arrupe”, Universidad de Deusto. Link.
• Legal Sociology Laboratory, Universidad de Zaragoza. Link.
• Catalunya Human Rights Institute. Link.
• Human Rights and Democracy Chair, Universidad de Alcalá. Link.
• Research group “Comparison in Constitutional Law, contemporary tendencies”, Universidad de Cádiz. Link.
• Human Rights Research Group, Universitat Jaume I de Castelló. Link.
• Research Group Informatics, Logic and Law, Universidad de Sevilla. Link.
• Research Group “Democracy and Rights”, Universidad de Jaén.
• Research Group, “Values, Rights and State in the early 21st Century”, Universidad de Vigo. Link.
• Philosophy of Law Area, Universidad de Cantabria.

Results

• Creation of reports, public policy proposals, scientific and articles in the media.

Current situation

The research is carried out in the framework of the program “El Tiempo de los derechos”, Consolider-Ingenio 2010 (Age of Rights). It is an integral and innovative project, aimed at broadening the borders of knowledge in Human Rights research, optimizing quality and the impact of its results and to guarantee its efficient transmission to academic training and to the political, business and social fields.