Lecture 'Building Capacities: Social movements and the law: Global South-North Conversations on Law, Resistance and Justice'
- For whom
- Business , Employees , Private individuals , Students
- When
- 29-04-2026 from 14:00 to 16:00
- Where
- Faculty Board Room - Campus Aula , Universiteitstraat 4, 9051 Ghent
- Language
- English
- Organizer
- Human Rights Research Network
- Contact
- hanna.kozachenko@ugent.be
- Website
- https://hrrn.ugent.be/event/building-capacities-social-movements-and-the-law-global-south-north-conversations-on-law-resistance-and-justice/
What role can law and strategic litigation play in struggles for social change?
Across the world, social movements are confronting powerful actors and systems of injustice that shape people’s rights, livelihoods, and democratic participation. In many contexts, activists combine grassroots organizing with legal strategies, including strategic litigation, to challenge power and defend their rights. This shows how the law can become both a tool and a terrain of contestation within broader movements for social change.
This event brings together Argentinian lawyer and activist María Lua Ribeiro Curty Belgrano (MOCASE) and Belgian lawyer Laura Adriaensens (Progress Lawyers Network), who will explore how communities and legal advocates confront power, both within and beyond formal legal systems.