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 […]
admin 15th February 2020
20 January 2020 – 1 April 2020 Following on from the recent news that the transitional government that has replaced Omar al-Bashir in Sudan will co-operate to ensure his appearance before the International Criminal Court in The Hague to face trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity, we wanted to bring your attention to […]
admin 15th February 2020
The Geneva Challenge is a project funded by Swiss Ambassador Jenö Staehelin and aims to encourage interdisciplinary problem solving analysis among master students on advancing human development within the scope of a relevant topic. This year, students are invited to develop analysis-based proposals on “The Challenges of Social Inclusion“. As the key to this issue is […]
admin 6th February 2020
7pm on 11th March at University College in the 12 Merton Street Lecture Theatre. In 2016, barristers in an anglophone region of Cameroon donned their wigs and gowns and marched through the streets in protest against decades of marginalisation by the francophone state, calling on others to join them. Protests by teachers and citizens rippled […]
admin 6th February 2020
We are pleased to announce that applications for the 2020 Summer School in International Human Rights Law, held at New College, Oxford, are now being accepted. The summer school runs from Sunday 12 July 2020 – Saturday 08 August 2020. The closing date for applications is 12 noon UK time (midday) on 1 April 2020 […]
admin 5th February 2020
Overview The one-day conference to be held on Monday 17 February 12-5pm will bring together medical professionals and representatives of various faiths in order to discuss the ethical challenges arising from the practice of organ donation and transplantation. In light of the Organ Donation (Deemed Consent) Act 2019 , a discussion of the potential ethical implications of this new law […]
admin 4th February 2020
The Human Rights Age Journal is a scientific journal of international relevance, published in English, peer-reviewed and open-access, containing papers concerning Human Rights from different approaches. The Journal has been included in SCOPUS and in the Emerging Sources Citation Index (Web of Science). It is also in: Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), LATINDEX (catalogue), […]
admin 3rd February 2020
More than a year and a half have passed since the start of “Even the Finest of Warriors” project, and at the end of this first phase, the project has released the first part of the book on Egypt and Tunisia (available in EN/AR). An interactive website accompanying the project was launched last February, which […]
admin 20th January 2020
The Bonavero Institute seeks to enrich the human rights experience of Oxford students, and to assist them to develop careers in the broad field of human rights. Several programmes have been developed to pursue this goal: a Human Rights Strategy Non-credit Course for law students and students at the Blavatnik School of Government and the […]
admin 20th January 2020
The Oxford Policy Fellowship is now accepting applications for Fellowships 2020-2022. The Fellowship gives legal professionals the opportunity to work within a government in low- and middle-income countries as a civil servant reporting to local managers. Because the demand for Oxford Policy Fellows is led by host governments – rather than being imposed by an […]
admin 17th January 2020
Feminism, Categorisation and Forced Migration This interdisciplinary series will explore a range of topics in refugee law, politics and history with particular attention being paid to feminist and/or gendered approaches to displacement and mobility and the categorisation(s) of people as ‘refugees’, ‘citizens’, ‘settlers’ or ‘migrants’. 5:00-6:30pm,* Wednesdays, Seminar Room 1, Queen Elizabeth House Series convenor: […]