HRLC attendance at a FRAME General Assembly

On 12-13 June 2014, Professor Jeffrey Kenner , Ms Agnes Flues and Mr Petr Pribyla represented HRLC at the FRAME General Assembly at the Belgian Senate in Brussels. HRLC is one of 19 partners involved in this large-scale, collaborative research project on EU multi-level and multi-actor human rights engagement.

The General Assembly meets once a year and is the project’s main forum for updates and feedback on research progress among all partners. It is also an occasion for engagement with relevant external stakeholders, providing an opportunity to test first research results.

During this year’s GA, this engagement took the form of a a policy roundtable with EU policy-makers and civil society representatives. Three panel discussions analysed different aspects of EU internal and external human rights policies. The first panel was chaired by Prof.  Kenner and focused on the issue of coherence in EU human rights policies. The other panels discussed the EU Council’s Strategic Framework and Action Plan for Human Rights and Democracy and questions around human rights indicators.

FRAME is funded by the EU’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) and is coordinated by the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies.