Current Research Projects

Worldwide University Network

How do policy makers tackle the issue of “business and human rights” at regional level? The project will be exploring this question together with WUN co-researchers from different regions of the world. Action plans have long been drawn up and laws created at the levels of nation states and the UN. But what about European, African or Asian initiatives? Thielbörger and his international colleagues plan to compile and compare regional perspectives and approaches. The results will be discussed in a workshop and recorded in a joint publication. The aim of the project is threefold: It seeks to root disability in humanitarian coordination mechanisms; improve data on the inclusion of disability; and to build and expand the capacities of German humanitarian actors and their local and global partners to become disability inclusive.