Month: January 2016

OPBP Completes Report on Reparations and Remedies for Victims of Sexual and Gender Based Violence

OPBP has recently completed a Report investigating the remedies and reparations for victims of sexual and gender based violence. The Report engages in a comparative study of nine jurisdictions by...
Trafficking of human beings at the ECtHR: Broadening the protection of women and girls through Article 14

Trafficking of human beings at the ECtHR: Broadening the protection of women and girls through Article 14

Two Spanish cases currently pending before the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) illustrate the gaping lacuna in the protections extended to trafficked women on the continent. They also, however,...
42 Bedford Row Disability Law Essay-Ceremony and Drinks Reception

42 Bedford Row Disability Law Essay-Ceremony and Drinks Reception

You are invited to the 42 Bedford Row Disability Law Essay Prize-Giving Ceremony and Drinks Reception When: Friday 5th February 2016 at 5pm Where: Gillese-Badun Seminar Room, Wadham College Tickets:...
Ebola and Understanding Health Crises as Threats to International Security

Ebola and Understanding Health Crises as Threats to International Security

On 14 January 2016, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared an end to the two-year Ebola outbreak in West Africa. The epidemic claimed more than 11,300 lives and infected over...
Global Health and Human Rights Database

Global Health and Human Rights Database

There’s a free, comprehensive legal research tool available online that anyone interested in health and human rights needs to know about: the Global Health and Human Rights Database. The Global...
Understanding One of the Worst Environmental Disaster in Brazil’s History

Understanding One of the Worst Environmental Disaster in Brazil’s History

On November 5 2015, the Fundão dam—property of the mining company Samarco—collapsed, sending more than forty billion litres of ore tailings into a small town called Bento Rodrigues district, in...
Ending the Fast Track?-Jerome Phelps (Director of Detention Action)

Ending the Fast Track?-Jerome Phelps (Director of Detention Action)

Border Criminologies, the Refugee Studies Centre, and the Refugee and Migration Law Discussion Group invite you to a special seminar with Jerome Phelps, Director of Detention Action, entitled ‘Ending the...
Nigerian Farmers Can Sue Shell in Dutch Court: Precedent for Transnational Cases against Multinationals

Nigerian Farmers Can Sue Shell in Dutch Court: Precedent for Transnational Cases against Multinationals

A recent ruling by the Court of Appeal in The Hague signals new hope on the horizon for victims seeking a judicial remedy for corporate negligence or human rights abuse....
Sentencing and the Possibility of Reform in India

Sentencing and the Possibility of Reform in India

Last month the Supreme Court of India took a regressive step by affirming a 2008 decision (Swamy Shradhanand) in the case of V. Sriharan v. Union of India. In the...
Textbook Provision for Learners in South Africa: Supreme Court of Appeal Judgment in the BEFA Case

Textbook Provision for Learners in South Africa: Supreme Court of Appeal Judgment in the BEFA Case

In December 2015, the South African Supreme Court of Appeal (“SCA”) in the case of Minister of Basic Education and Others v Basic Education for All and Others (the “BEFA”...
A Global Audience Participates in the latest Webinar: Security After the  Paris Attacks

A Global Audience Participates in the latest Webinar: Security After the Paris Attacks

On 22 January, 2016 the Oxford Human Rights Hub, with the support of the Bertha Foundation, presented a live webinar on the Security After the Paris Attacks. The webinar was...
The Great Legal Bake

The Great Legal Bake

What happens when CAKE confronts LAW? Here comes a great opportunity for those of you who enjoy baking and would like to help with legal assistance in our community: The...

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