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FAU University has secured a new Cluster of Excellence: “Transforming Human Rights,” with funding of €30 million over seven years, plus €7 million in strategic investments. This achievement reinforces FAU’s international role in human rights research. The cluster aims to analyze and redefine the...

From November 3 to 5, Miguel Vargas Delgado, Director of the Center for Legal and Social Studies (CEJIS – Bolivia), visited Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU). His visit included a range of academic activities that promoted knowledge exchange and strengthened collaboration ...

Prof. Dr. Almut Schilling-Vacaflor ranks among the top 2% of the most cited researchers worldwide based on citations in 2024, and is one of six scientists from the School of Business, Economics and Society (FAU WiSo) who, according to the Stanford List 2025, have achieved this distinction. Among...

On November 3 at 5:00 p.m., in room FG 2.024 (Findelgasse 7/9, Nuremberg), the roundtable titled “Territorios, sostenibilidad y soberanía: desafíos de América Latina en el nuevo orden global” will take place. This academic event aims to analyze the challenges faced by Indigenous territories and ...

On September 29 and 30, we welcomed over 30 researchers from various countries to our International Workshop 2025 – Business, Human Rights, and the Environment in Andean Countries. The workshop was jointly organized by the Centre for Human Rights Erlangen-Nuremberg (CHREN) and the AD...

We’re happy to welcome Dr. Julia Stefanello Pires as a new postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of International Business, Society and Sustainability (IBSS) at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg. Julia joins us with a strong interdisciplinary background in law, human rights, and sustainability, holding a PhD ...

The Cluster of Excellence "Transforming Human Rights", funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), will investigate the transformation of human rights in light of five interrelated global megatrends:1) Autocratization, 2) Fragmented economic globalization, 3) International migration, 4) Planetary environmental crises, and 5) Digitalization. Professor Almut Schilling-Vacaflor is one of the Principal Investigators (PIs) of the Cluster of Excellence. Her research will focus on human rights protection in the context of fragmented economic globalization and rights-based approaches for transforming planetary environmental crises.

Roundtable: Desigualdad, territorio y sostenibilidad: retos globales en contextos locales de América Latina On May 12 at 6:00 p.m., in room FG 2.024, the roundtable titled “Desigualdad, territorio y sostenibilidad: retos globales en contextos locales de América Latina” will take place. This acade...

We are thrilled to share the film 'One gram of gold', published in the Journal of Anthropological Films. The film is a collaborative film project, created by Anna Frohn Pedersen, postdoc at the Chair, together with Patric Jude Mkai, Robert Mwenda and Raphael Msuya. The film is open access and can...

Workshop on “Business, Human Rights and the Environment in the Andean Countries” Organized by the FAU Research Centre for Human Rights Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU CHREN) and ADLAF Working Group on Andean Countries Date: 30 September 2025 Location: Lecture Hall, 4th floor, Andreij-Sacharow-Platz 1, 9...

We are happy to share a new publication by Anna Frohn Pedersen. The paper is titled ‘Gold and geo-uncertainty in the making: The introduction of cyanide in Tanzania’s artisanal and small-scale mining sector’, and published in Geoforum. It is open access and can be found here: https://www.scienced...

Thrilled to announce that we have started our new research project: Corporate Accountability in Global Supply Chains! For more information please see: https://www.su.se/english/research/research-projects/corporate-accountability-in-global-supply-chains

We are happy to present our newest team member! Anna's research interests include resource extraction, rural livelihoods, the sustainable development goals, social and environmental justice and global value chains, with a special focus on the extractive industries in Sub-Saharan Africa. Anna is curr...

We would like to warmly welcome the new PhD researcher Júlia Berruezo at our chair! Júlia has a Master of Development Studies from the University of Passau and her PhD project will be about “Socio-biodiversity product chains in the Brazilian Cerrado: balancing agri-food commodity chains and the well...

In collaboration with the NGO Fern, Almut Schilling-Vacaflor and Maria-Therese Gustafsson (Univ. Stockholm), have supported the creation of a Forest and Rights Observatory, which aims to collect and visualize data on human rights violations in Brazil, with a focus on land tenure rights and land conflicts. The report is available here: https://www.fern.org/fileadmin/uploads/fern/Documents/2024/Fern_Creating_a_forest_and_rights_observatory_a_Brazilian_case_study.pdf

On 6 March 2024, Mairon Bastos Lima and Almut Schilling-Vacaflor presented and discussed their article "Supply chain divergence challenges a ‘Brussels effect’ from Europe's human rights and environmental due diligence laws" published by Global Policy. You can watch the recording here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lPI2S4_4434MtA0WnSBoKAeC54Gxe-uP/view

We are pleased to share this new piece of work by Mairon Bastos Lima (Stockholm Environment Institute) and Almut Schilling-Vacaflor on supply chain divergence, that is, how exporters arrange themselves to 'divide and conquer' and, thus, skirt around human rights and environmental due diligence regul...