It reappeared several years after the war, as the Ligue Belge pour la Défense des Droits de l’Homme et du Citoyen, or Belgian League for the Defense of Human and Civil Rights.
In the 1930s, its president Emile Vandervelde emphasized on concerting with both the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) at Paris and the government at Brussels.
The German Occupation and the following repression claimed their toll in absence of a Belgian human rights organisation.
Not until 1954, the appearance of the Ligue Belge pour la Défense des Droits de l’Homme (LBDH), or Belgian League for the Defense of Human Rights, demonstrated emphasis on independence from government so as to allow protecting human rights of each and all individuals from totalitarianism or society's contemporary whims.
[2] In 1978 as a practical internal reorganisation of the 'Institution', and since 1982 also officially, the national organisation was split into the Dutch-speaking Liga voor Mensenrechten and the French-speaking Ligue des droits de l'homme.