Our colleague Cansu Cinar travelled to Bolivia in May 2024 for a research stay, supported by a KWA scholarship from the University of Vienna. Her dissertation focuses on the impact of the climate crisis on the human rights discourse in Latin America and in particular on the question of how indigenous peoples fight for environmental and land rights before the courts. She is analysing which legal strategies are emerging in the inter-American human rights system.

During her stay at the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar in Sucre, she worked as a visiting researcher and used the specialised libraries and archives there. She also conducted interviews with indigenous organisations and met with NGOs working for environmental and human rights. These encounters provided valuable insights into current legal disputes and movements that are of central importance to her research.

You can read more about her stay here on the univie blog.