Month: November 2014

Indigenous Ecuadorians Bring Protracted Legal Battle Before the Supreme Court of Canada

Indigenous Ecuadorians Bring Protracted Legal Battle Before the Supreme Court of Canada

A 21-year legal battle that has made its way through the courts of Ecuador and the United States will arrive next month at the Supreme Court of Canada. From 1972...
Why the UK Should Embrace the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights

Why the UK Should Embrace the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights

The UK evinces a certain amount of skepticism for both human rights and for Europe. There has been much publicity about the plans of a Conservative government to repeal the...
The Right to Education in South Africa: The Challenges of Remedies and Enforcement

The Right to Education in South Africa: The Challenges of Remedies and Enforcement

The OxHRH in partnership with the Oxford Martin School Human Rights for Future Generations Programme is pleased to celebrate International Human Rights Day on December 10 by participating in The...
Accountability for Human Rights Violations During Dictatorship in Uruguay

Accountability for Human Rights Violations During Dictatorship in Uruguay

This Sunday, November 30 2014, Uruguayans will choose their next president and the country will celebrate 30 years of democratic elections after over a decade of civil-military dictatorship. The country...
Responsabilidad por la violación de Derechos Humanos en la Dictadura Uruguaya

Responsabilidad por la violación de Derechos Humanos en la Dictadura Uruguaya

Este Domingo, 30 de Noviembre de 2014, los Uruguayos elegirán su próximo presidente y el país celebrará 30 años de elecciones democráticas luego de más de 10 años de dictadura...
The Uncertain Status of Child Rights in the UK

The Uncertain Status of Child Rights in the UK

This November marks the 25th Anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). An atypical fusion of both civil and political, and economic, social and cultural rights,...
The Rhodes Project:  Celebrating many versions of what women can be

The Rhodes Project: Celebrating many versions of what women can be

Earlier this year, the Rhodes Project marked its 10th anniversary with a celebration at the home of its founder, Dr Ann Olivarius. In 2004, Olivarius, a member of the second...
General Recommendation on Displaced and Stateless Women

General Recommendation on Displaced and Stateless Women

On 5 November 2014, the UNHCR welcomed the release of the General Recommendation No. 32 on the gender-related dimensions of refugee, asylum, nationality and statelessness of women which OPBP helped...
Oxford Pro Bono Publico Welcome Event and Informal Information Session

Oxford Pro Bono Publico Welcome Event and Informal Information Session

The 2014-2015 OPBP Executive Committee held its first welcome and informal information session on 18 November 2014. It was well attended with a huge turnout of graduate students interested in...
Colombian Victims: Changing the Rules of the Game

Colombian Victims: Changing the Rules of the Game

Important developments have taken place in the Colombian peace process since August 2014. For example, the establishment of the Historic Commission of the Conflict and its Victims and the Subcommission...
The Lancet Publishes Special Edition on Violence against Women and Girls

The Lancet Publishes Special Edition on Violence against Women and Girls

Every day, millions of women and girls worldwide experience violence. This abuse takes many forms, including intimate physical and sexual partner violence, female genital mutilation, child and forced marriage, sex...
Women in Prison: The Particular Importance of Contact With the Outside World

Women in Prison: The Particular Importance of Contact With the Outside World

“I felt isolated from the entire world. If I’d stayed any longer I’d have started eating the window bars.” – Inmate, Jordan Contact with the world outside of prison is...

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