Month: April 2016

Inter-American Court Judgment Against Costa Rica on In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF): A Challenge to the Court’s Enforcement Authority

Inter-American Court Judgment Against Costa Rica on In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF): A Challenge to the Court’s Enforcement Authority

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights’ (IACtHR) recent order that Costa Rica invalidate a Supreme Court decision in order to authorise and regulate in vitro fertilisation (IVF) has brought up...
OxHRH Publications Page an Innovative Research and Teaching Resource

OxHRH Publications Page an Innovative Research and Teaching Resource

The OxHRH is pleased to unveil its Publication Page. It is an exciting new teaching and research resource that substantially furthers the OxHRH mission to facilitate cutting-edge comparative research in...
James Rooney and Ugochukwu Ezeh Awarded OxHRH-Rhodes University Fellowships

James Rooney and Ugochukwu Ezeh Awarded OxHRH-Rhodes University Fellowships

The OxHRH and Rhodes University are delighted to announce that James Rooney and Ugochukwu Ezeh have been awarded a six month OxHRH-Rhodes University Fellowships. This is a new partnership between...
New Zealand on the Verge of Implementing Pay Equity

New Zealand on the Verge of Implementing Pay Equity

Current New Zealand legislation prohibits gender discrimination in pay rates for men and women who perform identical roles. This narrow interpretation of equal pay may be effective in curbing directly...
OxHRH Seminar Rescheduled to May 13

OxHRH Seminar Rescheduled to May 13

OxHRH has rescheduled its upcoming seminar with Professor Anne Lofaso (Western Virginia University) from Tuesday April 26 to Friday May 13 at 1pm. On the 13th of May, Professor Lofaso...
Human Rights Advisory Panel urges the UN to compensate Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian families for lead poisoning in IDP camps

Human Rights Advisory Panel urges the UN to compensate Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian families for lead poisoning in IDP camps

On 8 April 2016, the Human Rights Advisory Panel (HRAP) released its long-awaited opinion in the case of N.M & others against the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo...
Oxford Legal Assistance Project Partner-Turpin & Miller LLP Featured in The Guardian

Oxford Legal Assistance Project Partner-Turpin & Miller LLP Featured in The Guardian

Oxford Legal Assistance (OLA) Project Partner, Tom Giles, a solicitor at Turpin & Miller LLP has recently been featured in The Guardian. The article explores the important work Tom is...
The History of Human Rights Society in Singapore 1965-2015

The History of Human Rights Society in Singapore 1965-2015

2015 marked Singapore’s golden jubilee — the nation of 5.5 million people celebrated 50 years of independence, peace and burgeoning economic growth. But tucked in another corner of the city...
Upcoming Seminar-Public Health and Human Rights-Current Challenges and Possible Solutions

Upcoming Seminar-Public Health and Human Rights-Current Challenges and Possible Solutions

Admissions to the Seminar “Public Health and Human Rights – Current Challenges and Possible Solutions” (19 May 2016), organised by the European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation (EIUC)...
Criminalising Dissent in Indian University Spaces: Implications of the JNU Incident on Free Speech and Sedition Laws

Criminalising Dissent in Indian University Spaces: Implications of the JNU Incident on Free Speech and Sedition Laws

The Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, presents a miserable picture of an economy shattered by decades of constant turmoil, death and military vigilance. In an effort to voice the...
The Mandatory Costs of Mandatory Minimum Sentences in Canada

The Mandatory Costs of Mandatory Minimum Sentences in Canada

Another day another mandatory minimum struck down. In Lloyd, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that a one-year mandatory minimum sentence that applied to drug trafficking offenders with a prior...
Appalachia in Crisis: A Human Rights Approach to Environmental Justice in the U.S.

Appalachia in Crisis: A Human Rights Approach to Environmental Justice in the U.S.

The natural resource extraction industry has long wrought environmental, social, and economic devastation in Appalachia—a U.S. region historically defined by a deeply exploitative coal extraction mono-economy. However, in tandem with...

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