Coimbra University

Rectory Auditorium

Building of the Faculty of Science and Technology, between the Departments of Chemistry and Physics.

Rua Larga, 3000-239, Coimbra, Portugal.

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The Congress

The “VII Coimbra International Human Rights Congress: a transdisciplinary view” is held by Ius Gentium Conimbrigae , the Human Rights Center based at the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra, and by the National Institute for Research and Promotion of Human Rights. The Organizing Committee, listed below, invites the entire academic community for a moment of reflection and debates on different and relevant socio-legal issues encountered in the field of Human Rights. The purpose of this international academic event is to encourage, according to its thematic proposition, the construction of ideas and the development of scientific theories from a multidisciplinary and critical perspective of the social and legal sciences. ​

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Learn more about the Congress by clicking here to find out who has been here in previous editions, accessing the photo collection!

Organizing committee

​ Prof. Doctor Vital Moreira

Full Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra​ .

Prof. Doctor Jónatas Machado

President of the Ius Gentium Conimbrigae (IGC/Human Rights Center). director and Full Professor from the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra.

​Master Carla by Marcelino Gomes

Executive Director and Researcher of the Ius Gentium Conimbrigae (IGC/Human Rights Center)​ .​

​Master Catarina Gomes

Consultant in Education for Human Rights and Researcher at the Ius Gentium Conimbrigae (IGC/Human Rights Center)​ . PhD student at the University of Coimbra​ .

​Prof. Doctor César Augusto Ribeiro Nunes

President of the National Institute for Research and Promotion of Human Rights (INPPDH). Researcher at the Ius Gentium Conimbrigae (IGC/Human Rights Center). Professor at Mackenzie Presbyterian University (Campinas/SP).​​

​Prof. Doctor Leopoldo Rocha Soares

Vice-President of the National Institute for Research and Promotion of Human Rights (INPPDH). Researcher at the Ius Gentium Conimbrigae (IGC/Human Rights Center). Professor and Coordinator of the Law Course at Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie (Campinas/SP).