The Human Rights Center of the CEACL (HRC CEACL) is a platform for scientific dialogue among scholars and professionals interested in international human rights law. It establishes a hub for academic engagement on issues such as the protection of vulnerable groups (e.g. national minorities, children, or persons with disabilities), the protection of environmental human rights, the human rights dimension of the international criminal law and international humanitarian law, both at the universal level and within the regional human rights mechanisms.
The HRC CEACL serves as a laboratory for research and curriculum development, inspired by the idea that the universality and indivisibility of human rights might still accommodate a regional perspective on human rights protection, given that different collective identities and related sensitivities, different historical backgrounds, might translate into different emphasis on certain human rights issues, reflecting the cultural and legal heritage of the Central and Eastern Europe.
Human Rights Center of the CEACL
Dr. Katarzyna Zombory
Chairwoman
Katarzyna Zombory, PhD, is the director of research at the Central European Academy (CEA) in Budapest. In 2022, she led the establishment of the CEA as its acting director general. Prior to that, she worked at the Ferenc Mádl Institute of Comparative Law in Budapest. She graduated from the Maria Curie-SkÅ‚odowska University in Lublin, Poland, with a degree in law, and has also taken courses at the Centre Européen Universitaire de Nancy, The Hague Academy of International Law, the University of Leiden, and the Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Budapest. She holds a PhD in public international law, and her current research field focuses on international human rights law. She is a member of several scientific societies (including the International Law Association–Hungarian Branch, the Hungarian Association for Comparative Law, a founding member of the Association of Children’s Rights), and on the advisory and editorial boards of journals (Central European Journal of Comparative Law and Law, Identity and Values) and for book series (Legal Studies on Central Europe, Studies of the Central European Professors’ Network).