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The Wiener Library’s Exhibition – Crimes Uncovered: The First Generation of Holocaust Researchers

admin 22nd February 2019

The Wiener Library’s new temporary exhibition ‘Crimes Uncovered: The First Generation of Holocaust Researchers’ will offer people the unique opportunity to view original documents from the Library’s extensive archive collection, including some of the earliest eye-witness testimonies from Holocaust survivors every to be recorded. This exhibition reveals the stories and legacies of the individuals and […]

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Berkeley Comparative Equality and Anti-Discrimination Law Study Group Annual Conference, Stockholm University

admin 20th February 2019

Stockholm University is hosting the annual Berkeley Comparative Equality and Anti-Discrimination Law Study Group Conference from 17-18 June 2019. There is no cost for the conference, but the organisers ask that you register using this link by 15 May 2019. The conference can accommodate about 100 audience members, which if need be will be allocated […]

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International Humanitarian Law and Child Rights Competition, 2019 organized by NALSAR University of Law and UNICEF

admin 15th February 2019

The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), the first international convention on child rights was signed in 1989 and has led to great progress in safeguarding human rights of the children. It has resulted in major changes in laws to ensure better protection for children and has even altered the manner in which […]

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Human Rights Watch Film Festival London, 13-22 March

admin 14th February 2019

The Human Rights Watch Film Festival will be presented in London from 13 to 22 March 2019, featuring 15 award-winning documentary and feature films. The international line-up of films from Venezuela, South Africa, Palestine, Thailand, and more offer critical insight into local and global human rights concerns impacting people around the world today. Many filmmakers, […]

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Even the Finest of Warriors – A New Project on Wellbeing and Self-Care for Feminist Activists

admin 13th February 2019

Even the Finest of Warriors is a research and a book project which deals with issues of mental health, self-care, and wellness in the field of human rights work that have been long ignored because they have been categorized as ‘personal issues.’ The project extends across three geographical stops and is divided into three phases; […]

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Human Rights in Asia Conference 2019, University of Essex

admin 13th February 2019

The University of Essex is hosting a ‘Human Rights in Asia Conference’ on Saturday 23 March 2019. The conference will be at the Colchester Campus LTB 8 from 9:30am until 5pm and is open to everyone. This years conference is titled “Shadow behind the Light: Economic Development and Human Rights”, focusing on human rights issues related […]

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Applications Open for the Oxford/George Washington Summer School in International Human Rights Law

admin 8th February 2019

The Department of Continuing Education at the University of Oxford is pleased to announce that applications for the 2019 Oxford/George Washington Summer School in International Human Rights Law at New College, Oxford are now being accepted. Further information is available here. The closing date for applications is 1 April 2019 but early application is advised […]

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Mansfield College Lecture Series

admin 6th February 2019

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European Equality Law Review 2019 Call for Abstracts: European Gender Equality and Non-Discrimination Law

admin 29th January 2019

The European Equality Law Review now welcomes submissions for its 2019/1 and 2019/2 issues. The European Equality Law Review is an open-access journal published twice a year by the European Commission in collaboration with the European Network of legal experts in gender equality and non-discrimination (see European Equality Law Review). It offers legal experts an […]

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Jayna Kothari Appointed Senior Advocate in India

admin 28th January 2019

Jayna Kothari, an alumnus of Oxford University was recently designated as a Senior Advocate by the Karnataka High Court. She is the youngest woman to be designated Senior Advocate in India. Jayna has been appearing as a Counsel for the last 19 years in India primarily in the High Court of Karnataka, but also in […]

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Vacancy-Associate Professorship at Bonavero Institute of Human Rights

admin 25th January 2019

The University of Oxford is seeking to appoint an Associate Professor in International Human Rights Law, to commence from 1 September 2019 or as soon as possible thereafter. The appointment is to a post held by the Department for Continuing Education, with membership of the Law Faculty, and based at the Bonavero Institute of Human […]

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Call for Chapter Contributions: The Times and Temporality of International Human Rights Law

admin 21st January 2019

International human rights law is a discourse with a rich and nuanced connection to time. As with other areas of law, it does more than exist in time but, rather, can be understood to create complex times and temporalities through its everyday discourse and practices (see Greenhouse 1989; Grabham 2016). However, sustained attention by human […]

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