A Year of Gaza’s Marches of Return: War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity Targeting Protected Groups
The independent international commission of inquiry on the protests in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem (OPT), recently released its report on possible international crimes committed by Israel within...
Gym Use and Changing Rooms: the illegality and chilling effect of (trans)gender segregation
A recent, high-profile article published on HuffPost claimed that the popular leisure group – David Lloyd Leisure – had decided to exclude all trans persons from their preferred gender segregated...
CJEU: Austrian Good Friday legislation constitutes direct discrimination on the grounds of religion
Under Austrian law, Good Friday is a public holiday only for members of the Evangelical Churches of the Augsburg and Helvetic Confessions, the Old Catholic Church, and the United Methodist...
Research Associate Position: Four Year Project Investigating the Use of Algorithms in the Criminal Justice System
Professor Karen Yeung, based at the University of Birmingham’s Law School and School of Computer Science, is currently seeking to recruit a Research Fellow to work on an exciting, innovative...
The Extremism Database is in Breach of the European Convention on Human Rights
On 24 January 2019, the European Court of Human Rights (the ECtHR) delivered its judgment in the case of Catt v. the UK and found that police powers to retain...
Article and Report: Unacceptable Forms of Work
A new article in the Journal of Law and Society highlights the work of the Project on Unacceptable Forms of Work. ‘A Strategic Approach to Regulating Unacceptable Forms of Work’,...
The Fairwork Foundation Releases First Set of Scores
A team of University of Oxford academics, including OxHRH Director Sandra Fredman, have published the world’s first ever rating system for working conditions in the digital economy. The rankings look...
African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights Affirms the Right to Access Documents Necessary for Appeals
On 7 December 2018, the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights delivered its judgment in the case of Mgosi Mwita Makungu v. Tanzania. This judgment affirms states’ obligations to...
Race Pay Gap Report (OxHRH and Institute for Employment Rights, 2019)
The 40th Session of the Human Rights Council: Some Observations on State Behaviour
The UN Human Rights Council, which was created in 2006, is currently holding its 40th Session. The HRC is the UN’s main human rights body, and is a political body...
Friday in Focus: Emilie McDonnell
I am currently a DPhil in Law candidate at University College. My research focuses on protecting the right to leave and related human rights of asylum seekers, refugees and other...
Canadian Children have a Reasonable Expectation of Privacy at School
In R. v. Jarvis, the Supreme Court of Canada confirmed that children can reasonably expect that they will not be the subject of surreptitious recording by their teachers at school....
