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‘Use and the University’ FJDG Teach-Out Panel Discussion in Support of UCU Strike Action – 3rd March

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 […]

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New Book on Human Rights and 21st Century Challenges

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 […]

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Post-Doctoral Position Oxford Law Faculty: Access to Justice and Digitalisation

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 […]

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Reading Room Exhibition: Child Survivors’ Drawings of the Genocide in Darfur

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 […]

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2020 edition of The Geneva Challenge – Advancing Development Goals International Contest for graduate students

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 […]

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Talk: Barristers Under Threat – How a protest by common law lawyers sparked an ongoing civil war

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 […]

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Oxford/George Washington 2020 Summer School in International Human Rights Law – admissions now open

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 […]

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Faith, Ethics and Organ Donation Conference by the Woolf Institute

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 […]

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Call for Papers: The Age of Human Rights Journal

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), […]

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Release of ‘Even the Finest Warriors’ – a book on human rights defenders in Egypt and Tunisia

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 […]

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Non-Credit Course: Developing Strategies for the Protection & Promotion of Human Rights

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 […]

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Now accepting applications: The Oxford Policy Fellowship

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 […]

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