Human rights are increasingly described as in crisis. One reason for this is the fact that current accountability mechanisms cannot adequately deal with intricate and multilayered human rights violations that occur in rapidly changing and vastly complex social contexts.

In spite of a relatively robust legal framework, there is a continued reality of human rights violations and rather low degrees of accountability.

This closing conference, ‘Thicker Notions of Human Rights Accountabilities’, revisits the questions of what qualifies as a human rights violation, who holds human rights duties and how to actually deliver human rights accountability in the context of pressing and complex challenges.