Centre for Human Rights Studies (University of Zurich)

The Centre for Human Rights Studies of the University of Zurich (UZHR) is an interdisciplinary scientific network with the goal of promoting and coordinating research, teaching and knowledge transfer in the area of human rights. Through the institutional concentration of the competencies of the participating experts from different disciplines, the UZHR contributes to making human rights knowledge available and promoting its development. The UZHR also cooperates with the Swiss Centre of Expertise in Human Rights (SCHR), within which it is responsible for the subject area of business and human rights.