Elisabeth Abiri

Human Rights
PhD, Senior lecturer
 

About

• Bachelor of Arts in International Relations
• Licenciate degree in Peace and Development Research
• Ph.D. in Peace and Development Research 2001
• Senior Lecturer with focus on human rights
• Chairman of the Delegation for Human Rights in Sweden 2006 - 2010.
• Strategist at Department of Human Rights in Region Västra Götaland (50%) during the period 2011-2012

Areas of interest

I am interested in human rights and rights-based approaches and the implementation of human rights into policies and practice. Other areas of interest are human rights and social sustainability and migration as a challenge to the state-based human rights system.

Current research

Child Rights-Based Programming in Conflict-Affected Areas in the MENA Region
The project is funded by Save the Children Sweden, the Nordic Trust Fund and the World Bank and examines how work for human rights for children and so-called child rights-based approaches function in practice in seven selected projects in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Yemen and Lebanon.

The projects are carried out by four organizations working with different child rights-based approaches and the overall question focuses on the benefits and challenges of working with these kinds of approaches in areas affected by conflict.

Joined-Up Governance: Connecting Rights
The project is run by the European Union's Fundamental Rights Agency in Vienna and focuses on finding forms to link different levels of duty-bearers for the implementation of human rights.

The purpose is to facilitate individual access to human rights and to clarify the responsibility to protect, enforce and promote human rights within the European Union.

Human rights – a force for development of the Information Society 3.0
Projects financed by Vinnova and operated by a consortium including the Department of Global Studies, the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, the Institute of Human Technology, Bollnas, and the Region Västra Götaland.

The aim is to transform the challenges human rights poses to innovativeness of public organizations and companies. The project will create more individualized options using information based on human right perspectives.

Teaching and tutoring

I am one of the main teachers on the department's master programmes in Human Rights and Human Rights Practice, where I mainly teach on the introductory courses and courses on globalization and human rights. I also teach human rights on the study programmes in Medicine and Speech Therapy at the University of Gothenburg and at the Nordic School of Public Health (NHV).