Call for Papers – Human Rights Paper Session at World Human Rights Cities Forum 2026

Co-organizers:
The Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, the International Centre for the Promotion of Human Rights at the Local and Regional Levels under the auspices of UNESCO, the UNESCO Chair in Human Rights and Human Security, University of Graz, The May 18 Institute Chonnam National University, the Institute of Human Rights and Peace Studies, Mahidol University, and Gwangju International Center

We are co-hosting the 11th Human Rights Paper Session as a part of the World Human Rights Cities Forum (WHRCF) 2026, being held in Gwangju, South Korea from the 13th to the 15th of May 2026. We invite human rights researchers and practitioners to submit papers on the theme “Human Rights Cities Against Authoritarianism and Populism”.

Selected papers will be presented on-site during the WHRCF. Presenters will also be invited to submit their papers for consideration in the Nordic Journal of Human Rights, a peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights.