DH’s efforts unpack the meaning of human rights through legal analysis and inspires global dialogue. Our cross-border collaborative work helps identify smarter ways forward and bolsters the journey towards a fairer, freer, and safer world. Through DH’s research, JusGov provides a resonant voice on behalf of human dignity.

At the heart of our Research Centre, this Group makes human rights a priority. DH’s activities, which enjoy recognition both nationally and worldwide, take in a wide range of areas such as asylum, bioethics and health, equality and non-discrimination, as well as human rights in an interconnected social universe. By scrutinising legal systems, rulings, and public policies, while training the next generations of scholars and legal practitioners, we are bringing together these issues and many others that are just as vital to our collective existence, including the observance of human rights in matters of gender diversity and sexual orientation. DH’s work on human rights has grown to include labour issues, notably bearing in mind the vulnerability of workers, especially migrants, to labour exploitation.

Our evolution echoes the European Commission’s orientation towards fair trade and human rights. The DH is acutely aware of the pressing humanitarian imperative to find remedies that are both timely and transformative.

In the quest to interpret and expose the causes of the present state of affairs and the ways it could be improved regarding burning and inherently interdisciplinary matters such as access to justice, education, and employment, as well as poverty and the marginalisation of minors, the DH is publishing globally significant studies, organising numerous scientific events, and taking part in society also by documenting legal and policy frameworks carefully, charting trends and discrepancies in the way different countries are dealing with common challenges, and providing data plus evidence-based recommendations for policymaking.