Award of the I Loyola University Award for Research in Development

The jury of the I Loyola University Award for Research in Development, composed of: Iliana Olivié, Real Instituto Elcano (president), Mª Isabel Álvarez, Instituto Complutense de Estudios Internacionales (member), Jorge Gutiérrez, Hegoa UPV-EHU (member), and Francisco Amador, Loyola University (secretary), met last Friday, February 14, to present the assessments of the candidatures presented and unanimously resolved to award the first prize to Daniela González Iza for her research work “Civil society and the Convention on the Rights of Migrant Workers and their Families: Alternatives in the face of its weak consensus”.

According to the evaluation of the tribunal, this work has been awarded for the interest of the topic addressed, for its topicality and for the clear and appropriate treatment that the author makes of it.

About the award-winning work

The development of international human rights norms and institutions has allowed civil society organizations to play a leading role. The objective of this research work is to analyze the scope and limits of civil society in its interaction with the United Nations Committee on Migrant Workers, taking into account that its normative instrument (the Convention on the Rights of Migrant Workers and their Families) is one of the least accepted at the international level. Therefore, an assessment is made of the extent to which the lack of international consensus on the Convention may represent a limitation in the relationship between civil society and this Committee.

Commitment to development

Loyola University, following its tradition of more than 30 years of work in Development, committed to promote and encourage a Human and Integral, Solidarity and Inclusive, Sustainable and linked to the SDGs development through research and scientific production on the reality in all its dimensions, has created the “Loyola University Award for Research in Development”.

The “Loyola University Award for Research in Development” aims to promote, value and disseminate research excellence in the field of Human and Integral, Solidarity and Inclusive and Sustainable Development.