The IX Coimbra International Conference on Human Rights: a transdisciplinary approach (CIDHCoimbra) is held by Ius Gentium Conimbrigae, the Human Rights Center based at the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra in co-organization with the National Institute for Research and Promotion of Human Rights of Brazil. The Organizing Committee, listed below, invites the entire academic community to a moment of reflection and debate about different and relevant socio-legal issues found within the scope of Human Rights. The purpose of this international academic event is to encourage, according to its thematic proposition, the construction of ideas and the development of scientific theories from a multidisciplinary and critical perspective of social and legal sciences.