admin 21st June 2016
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 can business support or hinder the process of peace-building after armed conflict? This panel discussion looks at the role of the private sector in countries emerging from conflict. […]
admin 14th June 2016
On Thursday June 9th, 2016 to a online global audience, Professor Liora Lazarus (Oxford University) gave a thought-provoking webinar on the right to security. The webinar was moderated by Professor Sandra Fredman, OxHRH Director. The webinar was a great success with active participants from India to Canada and United Kingdom to United States. Participants had […]
admin 4th May 2016
Please join Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) for the following event: A Conspiracy to Commit Genocide: Anti-Fertility Research in Apartheid South Africa’s Chemical and Biological Weapons Programme Dr. Miles Jackson, Lecturer in International Law, Oxford Wednesday, 4 May 2016 at 5PM Manor Road Building – Seminar Room G In late 2013, the Health Professions Council […]
admin 22nd November 2015
Seminar Tuesday, 24th November at 3pm Mackesy Room at Pembroke College Professor Chris Jenks, SMU Dedman School of Law, Dallas Texas Moral Panic and Conceptual Paradoxes: Critiquing & Reframing the Call to Ban Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems Using the evocative term ‘killer robots’, the United Nations and human rights group reports claim that lethal autonomous weapon […]
admin 11th August 2015
Sketches of Oppression is a one-day free exhibit featuring powerful drawings from Burmese children and displaced Darfuris in Chad. The drawings will be available for viewing from 10:00 to 17:00 on Friday 14 August at the Ertegun House, 37A St. Giles’ in Oxford. This event is being sponsored by Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust, WagingPeace and […]
admin 15th March 2015
For the second year in a row, this February Human Rights Watch London Network held a Moot Trial. This year’s topic for the Moot was the timely and topical subject of Extraordinary Rendition, the case before the Court being Khaled Shaladi v UK, which considered the role of the UK in a particular case. Held in the UCL […]
admin 27th January 2015
Associate Director, Associate Professor Liora Lazarus will be one of the key speakers at the University of Strasbourg Institute for Advanced Study Symposium-Democratic Security on the right ‘Righting Security or Securitizing Rights.’ Today, the main threats to security seem to originate from within States rather than between them. The risk of a downward spiral of distrust and fear in […]
admin 24th May 2014
Professor Clifford Bob of Duquesne University will be presenting a talk entitled “Rights as Weapons: The Global Right Wing and the Clash of World Politics.” Details: Date – 27 May 2014 Time – 5pm drinks reception, 5:30pm lecture Venue – T.S. Elliot Lecture Theatre, Merton College
admin 7th July 2010
A submission prepared by Oxford Pro Bono Publico for the Iraq Inquiry on the legality of the 2003 invasion (July 2010) OPBP prepared a submission for the Iraq Inquiry on the legality of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The call for submissions may be found on the Inquiry’s website: http://www.iraqinquiry.org.uk/background/100602-submissions-from-international-lawyers.aspx You can browse or search all OPBP’s […]