admin 10th June 2019
The Faces of Human Rights Edited by Kasey McCall-Smith, Jan Wouters and Felipe Gómez Isa As human rights discourse increasingly focuses on analysing states and the institutions that promote and support the human rights machinery that states have created, this volume serves to recall that despite the growing size of the machinery and unwieldy nature […]
admin 6th June 2019
The University of Oxford’s Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), together with nine Eurocities member cities, has recently released a video entitled ‘Irregular Migrants in European Cities: How to respond?’ alongside ‘Guidance for Municipalities’ on how to secure access to social rights for all forms of irregular migrants in their localities. A knowledge-exchange project, facilitated […]
admin 28th May 2019
RSC Public seminar 5pm Wednesday 29 May on Sonopolis: Sound, citizenship, and migrant activisms in Athens with Dr Tom Western (Refugee Studies Centre). Seminar Room 1, Oxford Department of International Development, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TB Seminar series: Everyday Resistance to the European Governance of Migration Series convenor: Dr Cory Rodgers About the seminar At […]
admin 22nd May 2019
The Labour Law Research Network has announced that the recipients of the 2019 LLRN Bob Hepple Award for Lifetime Achievement in Labour Law are Professor Mark Freedland and Professor Ann Numhauser-Henning. They join Prof. Harry Arthurs, the late Prof. Bob Hepple, Prof. Katherine Stone, Prof Kazuo Sugeno, Prof. Manfred Weiss and Prof Silvana Sciarra as previous recipients of the Award. The goal of the Award […]
admin 22nd May 2019
The Australian Department of the Senate is currently recruiting for a Principal Research Officer to support the work of the Australian Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights (PJCHR). The role involves drafting reports and providing advice in relation to international human rights law and the human rights compatibility of legislation to the PJCHR. The role […]
admin 21st May 2019
RSC Public seminar 5pm Wednesday 22 May on Endurance and involuntary return to Senegal with Dr Anne-Line Rodriguez (Queen Mary University of London) Seminar Room 1, Oxford Department of International Development, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TB Seminar series: Everyday Resistance to the European Governance of Migration Series convenor: Dr Cory Rodgers About the seminar Over the last […]
admin 17th May 2019
In 2015, I was awarded a Postgraduate Scholarship to complete an MA in Politics at the University of Sheffield and I am currently undertaking an MA in Law at the University of Bristol (2018-2020). My research interests are human rights, democracy and land tenure in Africa. Before getting involved with the Oxford Human Rights Hub, […]
admin 9th May 2019
Set in the context of the processes and practices of human reproduction and reproductive health in Northern India, this book examines the institutional exercise of power by the state, caste and kin groups. Drawing on ethnographic research over the past eighteen years among poor Hindu and Muslim communities in Rajasthan and among development and health […]
admin 6th May 2019
This is an open letter to the Bar Council of India co-written by OxHRH blog editor Gautam Bhatia, originally published on LiveLaw.in. You can see the post here. To the Chairman of Bar Council of India April 21, 2019 Respected Sir, There is nothing more pivotal to the Indian democracy and to the Indian Constitution than […]
admin 3rd May 2019
Everyday Resistance to the European Governance of Migration 5:00-6:30pm, Wednesdays, Seminar Room 1, Queen Elizabeth House Series convenor: Dr Cory Rodgers As national immigration and asylum regimes become increasingly restrictive in countries around the world, “Fortress Europe” stands out for its efforts to regulate human movement both within and beyond its borders. Following the 2015 […]
admin 29th April 2019
In response to a complaint regarding sexual harassment and subsequent victimisation against the Chief Justice of India, and the Indian Supreme Court’s response to the complaint, 25 former law clerks at the Court have given out the following statement: On 23 April 2019, the Times of India published an article titled, ‘After allegation against CJI, […]