Fahim’s research project analyses judicial protections against procedural barriers like residence requirements that indirectly discriminate, drawing on the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child’s 2024 Views in K.K. v. Spain and connecting to ICCPR/ICESCR obligations on equality and social rights. This research extends his earlier work rooted in Bangladesh, where he witnessed Rohingya refugee children confined to camps without meaningful education access. During his LL.B. at BRAC University, his thesis addressed their right to education under national and international refugee law, establishing his focus on territorially present but marginalized children.
Fahim then pursued an Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s across Glasgow, IBEI Barcelona, and Tartu. Glasgow built his expertise in international law, courts and treaty interpretation. Barcelona added political science and security perspectives on human rights dynamics. Tartu refined his comparative approach to rights issues across jurisdictions. His publications appeared in Journal of Conflict and Security Law (Oxford), Cambridge International Law Journal, Asian Yearbook of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (Brill), and Harvard International Law Journal. Peers noted his Global South emphasis, which he took as an invitation to apply that rigor comparatively to Europe, beginning with Melilla’s parallels to South Asian exclusion mechanisms.
Alongside a master’s thesis on Muslim refugee children’s education rights in India—probing domestic courts’ use of international standards—Fahim is contributing to the European Yearbook on Human Rights 2026. This article ties Melilla’s administrative barriers to covenant-based non-discrimination duties during the ICCPR/ICESCR anniversaries.
The Global Campus is recognised for its international work on children’s rights and for building a community where scholarship, practice, and policy speak to each other. Its intellectual environment—combined with the resources available in Venice—made it the right place to develop his project at the intersection of children’s rights, equality and migration governance.
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