If the aim of LGBTIQ+ rights discourse is to promote and protect the interests and lives of all LGBTQI+ identifying peoples, what does it mean to think about improving lives in ways that are responsive to lived realities? Given the centrality of the state in human rights discourse, we ask what a rights discourse has enabled over the decades and what does it miss out? What might a multidisciplinary approach allow us to see and how might it enable more nuanced and contextualised responses to the lives and realities of LGBTQI+ persons. It is through this lens that this project seeks to go beyond legal frameworks in the attempt to better understand and improve the lives of LGBTQI+ persons.
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Isabelle Zundel is a researcher in international human rights law, with research interests spanning regional human rights systems, international environmental law, and socio-legal studies. Currently, she is a postdoctoral researcher at the Law and Development Research Group at the University of Antwerp, where she works on the ERC Starting Grant 2023-funded GENESIS Project, led by Gamze Erdem Türkelli, which examines multistakeholder partnerships (MSPs) as actors in achieving sustainable development and their interrelationship with human rights. In addition, she coordinates the Sustainable Development and Global Justice Cluster of the LLM programme at the University of Antwerp for the academic year 2025–2026 and supports a five-year VLIR-UOS-funded research project in partnership with Mzumbe University.
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