admin 19th March 2020
This blog was originally published by the Fairwork Foundation. Fairwork is an action-research project that sets and measures decent work standards in the gig economy. The Fairwork South Africa 2020 report highlights the precarious nature of work in the South African gig economy. This research is particularly timely in light of the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, […]
admin 16th March 2020
Applications are now open for a fixed-term Postdoctoral Fellowship with the ARC Laureate Program in Comparative Constitutional Law. The Laureate Program in Constitutional Law, led by Professor Adrienne Stone, ARC Kathleen Fitzpatrick Australian Laureate Fellow, and funded by the Australian Research Council, and is delighted to announce that applications are open for a Postdoctoral Fellowship. […]
admin 9th March 2020
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED AS A PRECAUTIONARY MEASURE IN RESPONSE TO COVID-19. In solidarity with the UCU strike, the Oxford Human Rights Hub is hosting a teach-out on the Right to Education. The panel will explore the nature of the right to education and its importance in the struggle for equality, dignity […]
admin 6th March 2020
The panel will be held 31 March 2020, 6:00 pm–7:30 pm at Gideon Schreier LT, UCL Laws, Bentham House, Endsleigh Gardens, London. Organised by UCL Centre for Criminal Law and 6KBW College Hill. Speakers Jonathan Hall QC (6KBW College Hill) Tom Hickman QC (UCL & Blackstone Chambers) Professor John Jackson (University of Nottingham) Cathryn McGahey QC (Temple […]
admin 6th March 2020
This call offers an opportunity to publish academic op-eds exploring questions of transitional justice on JusticeInfo.net. JusticeInfo.net is an electronic platform offering real time journalistic coverage and academic analysis of transitional justice processes all over the world. The platform was officially launched in June 2015 and is a collaborative project between Fondation Hirondelle, Oxford Transitional […]
admin 6th March 2020
OxHRH is celebrating International Women’s Day this year by spotlighting the brilliant work of the women of the Hub! “Women and gender are central to all the work I do, from reproductive rights for women in our Shaping the Future series with the World Health Organization and the Office of the High Commissioner on Human […]
admin 5th March 2020
The OxHRH Publications Page is a dynamic teaching and research resource that showcases the latest human rights publications from our global network. The latest editions are: Mohammad Amir Anwar and Mark Graham, ‘Digital Labour at Economic Margins: African Workers and the Global Information Economy’ (2020) Review of African Political Economy 1 (forthcoming) Mohammad Amir Anwar and Mark Graham, […]
Rishika Sahgal 2nd March 2020
The UCU is on strike this term, against stagnant, insufficient, and unequal pay for women and racial minorities, increasing casualisation, unsustainable workloads, and the unfavourable restructuring of pensions. The strike causes some disruption to lectures and seminars. But does it also, in many ways, contribute to our education, and to redressing inequality in society as […]
admin 1st March 2020
OxHRH Director Professor Sandy Fredman has written an article on ‘Combining Human Rights and the SDGs to Achieve Substantive Gender Equality’. Her piece, available here, explores how the SDGs and human rights could work together under an intersectional approach to achieve transformative gender equality. The article is part of a series called Counted and Visible: Insights, […]
Rishika Sahgal 26th February 2020
In solidarity with the University and College Union (UCU) strike action, on Tuesday, March 3rd, the Feminist Jurisprudence Discussion Group (FJDG) will hold a teach-out panel discussion on ‘Use and the University’ (Chapter 4 of Sara Ahmed’s What’s the Use?) with panellists Dr. Shreya Atrey, Achas Burin, Professor Sandra Fredman, and Nomfundo Ramalekana at the Wadham Room in King’s Arms. A social will be […]
admin 19th February 2020
A new edited book has just been published titled Human Rights and 21st Century Challenges: Poverty, Conflict, and the Environment. The book is edited by OxHRH Associates Dapo Akande and Jaakko Kuosmanen, alongside Helen McDermott and Dominic Roser. Description The world is faced with significant and interrelated challenges in the 21st century which threaten human rights in […]
admin 19th February 2020
The Faculty of Law at the University of Oxford is looking for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to work on Access to Justice and Digitalisation as part of a larger UKRI-funded project on the Potential for AI in English Law. The successful appointee will undertake postdoctoral research in the programme Unlocking the Potential of Artificial Intelligence […]