Call for papers

Within the Conference's challenging conceptual and empirical framework, the Human Rights Centre “Antonio Papisca” and the Department of Political Science, Law and International Studies of the University of Padova have launched, in cooperation with other 4 international human rights research institutes a call for papers open to human rights scholars, researchers as well as Ph.D candidates.

Preference will be given to sound proposals which contribute addressing, from different disciplinary perspectives, one of the following topics: human rights research methods and the quantitative shift in perspective; technological and ethical issues in gathering and processing human rights data; gender views on human rights data processing; the challenges of human rights indicators for international human rights law at the regional and local level; achievements and challenges of UN human rights indicators; the contribution of internet tools for “measuring” human rights; the role of journalism, public media and social media in communicating human rights issues. 

The deadline of the call for papers is Sunday 4th October (midnight).

To participate in the call for papers, please send to centro.dirittiumani@unipd.it by the deadline a pdf file including the following information:

a) name, affiliation/professional position and contact of author/authors (in case of more authors, please indicate the name of the corresponding author);

b) a title and an abstract of 250 words maximum, and 4-6 key-words;

Notification of acceptance will be sent by 26th October.

For accepted abstracts, the submission of a working paper before the Conference is strongly encouraged also in view of the possibility to be considered for publication in Peace Human Rights Governance (PHRG) the University of Padova Human Rights Centre (double blind) peer-reviewed scientific journal (https://phrg.padovauniversitypress.it/). 

There is no conference fee.