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, […]
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; […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
admin 17th January 2019
admin 17th January 2019
Job Title: Senior Lecturer, Reader or Professor in International Human Rights Law Job Reference: REQ02147 Application closing date: 15/02/2019 Location: Colchester Salary Senior Lecturer and Reader: £51,630 to £58,090 per annum (pro-rata for part-time), Professor: On the Professorial scale, commensurate with experience and achievements Employment Type: Permanent, Full-time Job category/type: Academic Essex Law School Ranked […]
admin 9th January 2019
The Equal Rights Trust has launched A Past Still Present: Addressing Discrimination and Inequality in Egypt. Combining testimony from survivors of discrimination with extensive desk-based research. The report provides, for the first time, a comprehensive assessment of the rights to equality and non-discrimination in Egypt. The report, which is the latest in the Trust’s country report series, is the […]