Projects

The Venice School for Human Rights Defenders opened its 2026 edition with a powerful testimony from Forensic Architecture and the Colombian Truth Commission, whose joint investigation into land dispossession and paramilitary violence in Colombia’s Urabá region uses spatial analysis, 3D reconstruction, and archival research to preserve memory and pursue justice. The project, and the people behind it, set the tone for a week of intensive training that brings together human rights defenders, Sakharov Fellows, and leading experts from across the globe.

The course programme is coordinated by Roberto Chenal, Italian jurist at the Court and scientific supervisor of all the Global Campus training initiatives on the ECHR since 2014.

The Global Campus of Human Rights is currently celebrating two decades of storytelling, activism, and global connection at the 20th edition of the Summer School in Cinema, Human Rights and Advocacy.