LECTURES
Hands On Human Rights lectures combine real-world field experience, legal analysis, and applied ethical reflection, focusing on human rights in practice, organizational culture, education, and social transformation. They can be given by Edgard Raoul or by partner specialists, depending on the topic and audience.
1. Human Rights in Practice: When Discourse Meets Reality
Audience: companies, universities, public managers
Description: a lecture that breaks with the abstract view of Human Rights, connecting theory, practice and everyday decisions. Based on real experiences in conflict zones, schools and companies, the lecture provokes reflections on power, responsibility and human impact.
Speaker: Edgard Raoul or HOHR specialist
2. Refugees, Borders and Reception: real stories, global challenges
Audience: universities, global companies, public sector
Description: Based on direct experiences in the Middle East and Europe, the lecture addresses forced migration, the refugee crisis, reception, xenophobia, and the responsibility of states, companies, and civil society.
Speaker: Edgard Raoul
3. Violence Against Women: What We Are Still Not Seeing
Audience: companies, schools, universities, public sector
Description: a direct analysis of gender-based violence, its explicit and symbolic manifestations, its impacts on work and society, and the role of institutions in prevention and accountability.
Speaker: Edgard Raoul or partner specialist in gender and human rights
4. Assédio Moral e Sexual no Trabalho: prevenção, cultura e responsabilidade
Audience: Companies, HR, Compliance, Leadership
Description: Lecture focused on the structural understanding of harassment, its legal, human and organizational impacts, with a focus on prevention, ethical culture and compliance with NR standards, ESG and international norms.
Speaker: Edgard Raoul or HOHR specialist
5. Bullying and Violence in the School Environment: Identifying, Preventing, and Acting
Audience: schools, educators, families, universities
Description: practical reflection on bullying, exclusion, and symbolic violence, with tools for early identification, shared responsibility, and the construction of safe and inclusive educational environments.
Speaker: Edgard Raoul or partner educator
6. Mental Health, Trauma, and Contemporary Violence
Audience: Companies, schools, universities
Description: This lecture connects psychological suffering, structural violence, and the culture of performance, proposing pathways for care, prevention, and institutional responsibility.
Speaker: Edgard Raoul or a partner mental health professional
7. Companies, ESG and Human Rights: from report to practice
Audience: Companies, boards, compliance professionals, investors
Description: Discussion on the role of companies in protecting Human Rights, reputational risks, Regulatory Standards, Sustainable Development Goals, ISO standards, and investor expectations, focusing on concrete action and organizational culture.
Speaker: Edgard Raoul or an ESG and governance specialist
8. Leadership, Power, and Organizational Culture
Audience: Leaders, managers, executives
Description: A thought-provoking discussion on how the exercise of power shapes cultures, produces violence or care, and how leaders can act as agents of ethical transformation.
Speaker: Edgard Raoul or a specialist in responsible leadership
9. Human Rights, Ethics and Individual Responsibility
Audience: General public, students, companies
Description: The lecture questions the idea that violations are always "the other's" and invites reflection on co-responsibility, everyday choices, and social transformation.
Speaker: Edgard Raoul or partner speaker
10. Rethinking Human Rights: Education, Practice, and Impact
Audience: schools, universities, companies, public sector
Description: Presents the central thesis of Hands On Human Rights: rethinking Human Rights through education and practice, training agents of change capable of generating real and lasting impact.
Speaker: Edgard Raoul