Human Rights’ Policy at Ghent University

For this reason the board recently approved a human rights charter, which includes a checklist (impact assessment) for prospective supervisors to assess whether their project or cooperation idea should be rejected in advance or requires advice from the Human Rights Policy Committee on Internationalisation. A  human rights clause  will also help the respecting of human rights in all international cooperation matters. "Human rights are part of Ghent University's DNA," says rector Rik Van de Walle in De Standaard (21 January 2018). "With this clause and the committee we hope to become a global pioneer." - Impact assessment. To enable Ghent University to prevent possible negative consequences in the area of human rights, an impact assessment on human rights was included in the process before international cooperation was entered into. This means that the (prospective) supervisor at Ghent University verifies the human rights impact of activities taken within the framework of cooperation. The latter must be understood in the broad sense and includes international cooperation entered into by the university, the faculties, research groups or individual researchers, including bilateral and multilateral cooperation.