Month: September 2015

OxHRH Michaelmas Term Card

OxHRH Michaelmas Term Card

The Oxford Human Rights Hub is pleased to announce its Michaelmas Term Seminar Series. The seminars are at 1pm in Senior Common Room, Law Faculty, Oxford University. Refreshments are provided....
Sustainable Development Goals: A Beacon of Light or Another Stumble in Global Governance?

Sustainable Development Goals: A Beacon of Light or Another Stumble in Global Governance?

The United Nation’s new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted yesterday by the world’s leaders in a highly anticipated Summit in New York. At the end of the year, the...
Challenges of Representation in Law and Politics-Sarah Sackman (Francis Talyor Building)

Challenges of Representation in Law and Politics-Sarah Sackman (Francis Talyor Building)

This seminar will explore what it means to “represent” a client in court in public law litigation. What are the strengths and limitations of representation and how does representing individuals...
External Processing of Refugee Claims: Problem or Part of the Solution? The Australian Experience

External Processing of Refugee Claims: Problem or Part of the Solution? The Australian Experience

European countries have expressed an interest in external processing of asylum claims, which would involve establishing asylum processing centres in other countries, most likely in North Africa. It is thought...
Panel Event: UN Women’s Progress of the World’s Women 2015 Report ‘Transforming Economies, Realising Rights’

Panel Event: UN Women’s Progress of the World’s Women 2015 Report ‘Transforming Economies, Realising Rights’

The OxHRH is delighted to be holding a panel event for the recently released UN Women’s Progress of the World’s Women 2015-2016 Report ‘Transforming Economies, Realizing Rights’. UN Women’s flagship...
Equal Rights Trust Publishes New Report on Gender Discrimination in Nationality Laws

Equal Rights Trust Publishes New Report on Gender Discrimination in Nationality Laws

A report which focuses on the devastating impact of discriminatory nationality laws in Madagascar and Nepal has been published by the Equal Rights Trust highlighting how, in some countries with...
Hungary’s Actions: Past the Borderline of International Law

Hungary’s Actions: Past the Borderline of International Law

As the European refugee ‘crisis’ worsens, the Hungarian government is resorting to more extreme border control measures that test the parameters of international law. The Guardian reported last week that...
Are the EU Commission’s Latest Proposals Sufficient to Solve the Refugee Crisis?

Are the EU Commission’s Latest Proposals Sufficient to Solve the Refugee Crisis?

Both the ‘European family’ and the ‘European fabric’ has laid itself bare in the face of an apparently uncontainable refugee crisis in the heart of Europe. Amidst an atmosphere that...
Open Letter from International Lawyers: Re-opened for Signatures

Open Letter from International Lawyers: Re-opened for Signatures

This open letter emerged from a session on ‘Refugee Crisis and Europe’ that took place at the 11th Annual Conference of the European Society of International Law in Oslo on...
OxHRH Webinar-Is there a refugee crisis in Europe, or just a crisis in the lack of refugee protection? Dr Cathryn Costello (Oxford University) and Prof Guy Goodwin-Gill (Oxford University)

OxHRH Webinar-Is there a refugee crisis in Europe, or just a crisis in the lack of refugee protection? Dr Cathryn Costello (Oxford University) and Prof Guy Goodwin-Gill (Oxford University)

The OxHRH Webinar is archived and now available to view here! For those interested in learning more on refugees, aslyum-seekers, the EU and the UNHCR, Dr Cathryn Costello and Professor...
The European Union’s Search for Unity as the Refugee Crisis Continues

The European Union’s Search for Unity as the Refugee Crisis Continues

Ongoing violence and war in the countries of the Middle East and Africa has led thousands of refugees to leave their homelands in desperate hope of finding a new land...
Upcoming Virtual Talk from UC Berkeley Law: "Understanding International Human Rights Commitments:  Control Mechanisms, Legitimacy and Domestic Change"

Upcoming Virtual Talk from UC Berkeley Law: "Understanding International Human Rights Commitments: Control Mechanisms, Legitimacy and Domestic Change"

The Berkeley Comparative Anti-Discrimination Law Virtual Study Group is giving a presentation on Thursday, September 24, 2015 at 9:00 am in Berkeley in Room 136 Boalt Hall on: “Understanding International...

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