Month: June 2016

Ireland’s Abortion Ban: Subjecting Women to Suffering and Discrimination

Ireland’s Abortion Ban: Subjecting Women to Suffering and Discrimination

Ireland has one of the world’s most restrictive abortion law regimes. Following a referendum in 1983, the 8th Amendment of the Irish Constitution was inserted in the form of Article...
Bob Hepple Equality Awards TONIGHT

Bob Hepple Equality Awards TONIGHT

The Equal Rights Trust and the Industrial Law Society are delighted to invite you to the Bob Hepple Equality Award 2016 on Thursday 30 June 2016. The Award, established in...
Two Kinds of Pluralism and the Future of Affirmative Action

Two Kinds of Pluralism and the Future of Affirmative Action

Fisher v. Texas II, decided this week in a startling opinion by Justice Kennedy for a 4-3 majority of a short-handed Court, will not end the controversy—or the litigation—over affirmative...
Pathways to Social and Economic Welfate: Considering Affirmative Action Policies in Brazil

Pathways to Social and Economic Welfate: Considering Affirmative Action Policies in Brazil

Dr Mathieu Turgeon (Universidade de Brasilia) and Dr Philip Habel (University of Glasgow) are organising a workshop that will bring together Early Career Researchers who are studying affirmative action policies...
Sweating in the Park or in the Factory: Beyoncé’s New Sports Wear Company and Respect for Human Rights

Sweating in the Park or in the Factory: Beyoncé’s New Sports Wear Company and Respect for Human Rights

In April, Beyoncé released her album Lemonade. In May, she launched her sports clothing brand Ivy Park. The former was hailed as a ‘new civil rights movement’, while the latter...
Message from OxHRH Director Professor Sandra Fredman on Brexit: Fragmentation and Reaffirmation

Message from OxHRH Director Professor Sandra Fredman on Brexit: Fragmentation and Reaffirmation

Fragmentation and reaffirmation As the cold light of day dawns on the decision of a majority of voters in the UK to leave the EU, carrying with it loud endorsements...
LGBT Equality in the US: Despite Obergefell Victory, the Fight Continues

LGBT Equality in the US: Despite Obergefell Victory, the Fight Continues

One year ago today, on June 26, 2015, the US Supreme Court decided Obergefell v. Hodges, in which the Court held that the US Constitution’s Fourteenth Amendment requires States to...
Linguistic Cracks In The Femicide Campaigns: Why Femicide Must Be Repatriated

Linguistic Cracks In The Femicide Campaigns: Why Femicide Must Be Repatriated

The recently published 2015 Global Burden of Armed Violence (GBAV) report by the Small Arms Survey has continued in the same vein as the two previous publications in 2008 and...
OxHRH Awarded Teaching Development and Enhancement Project Awards

OxHRH Awarded Teaching Development and Enhancement Project Awards

The OxHRH has been awarded the prestigious Oxford University Teaching Development and Enhancement Project Awards. The award will support the activities of the OxHRH blog, the production of the third...
The Referendum on the European Union: Remaining Human

The Referendum on the European Union: Remaining Human

The referendum on the UK’s membership of the EU is a decision that will be taken in a troubling context. Although occasionally clothed in the inclusive language of globalism, ‘leave’...
Business and Human Rights: Transition from Peace to Conflict Seminar

Business and Human Rights: Transition from Peace to Conflict Seminar

17:00-19:00 | 21 June | Deakin Room, St Anne’s College, Oxford Hosted by the Oxford Business and Human Rights Research Network and the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre How...
Brexit, Sovereignty and Reality

Brexit, Sovereignty and Reality

The referendum campaign has been marked by claims and counter-claims, with each side contesting the ‘facts’ advanced by the other. Voters will form their own views on the respective ‘guilt’...

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