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: […]
admin 16th January 2020
On 10 March, the UoN Human Rights Law Centre and Doughty Street Chambers will co-host in London a one-day training course entitled “Social Rights in Europe: Advocacy and Litigation”. Led by international experts in the field, this session will provide practitioners, civil society, academics and others with information about social rights standards, mechanisms and avenues that have historically received […]
admin 11th January 2020
Child Poverty Action Group works on behalf of the one in four children in the UK growing up in poverty. It doesn’t have to be like this. We use our understanding of what causes poverty and the impact it has on children’s lives to campaign for policies that will prevent and solve poverty – for […]
admin 11th January 2020
OxHRH Director Sandy Fredman will be moderating this roundtable.
admin 24th December 2019
A new edited collection on Anti-Discrimination Law in Civil Law Jurisdictions by Barbara Havelková and Mathias Möschel has just been published. This collection of essays explores the evolution of anti-discrimination law in European civil law jurisdictions. Historically, scholarship in this area has focused on the common law, which has also taken the lead in developing the […]
admin 23rd December 2019
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: Mark Graham and William H Dutton (eds), Society and the Internet: How Networks of Information and Communication are Changing our Lives (2nd edn, OUP, 2019) Mark Graham, Rob Kitchin, Shannon Mattern and Joe Shaw (eds), How to Run a City Like Amazon, and […]
admin 22nd December 2019
The European Yearbook on Human Rights explains and contextualizes key developments in human rights in the past year. With special sections dedicated to the three main organisations securing human rights in Europe (EU, Council of Europe and OSCE) as well as a section on cross-cutting issues the Yearbook provides much-needed analysis and insightful commentary. Since […]
admin 16th December 2019
ILS Law College Equal Opportunity Cum Enabling Cell in Collaboration with Centre for Disability Studies, University of Leeds (Uk) announces a one-day International Conference on “Exploring Titanic Shifts in the Human Rights Paradigm after the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities” Date: 20th JANUARY 2020 Venue: ILS Law College Campus, Pune ABOUT THE CONFERENCE The United Nations convention on […]
admin 13th December 2019
On Tuesday December 10 2019, EU ministers in charge of gender equality (EPSCO) adopted Council conclusions based on our review of the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA). Our findings show that no EU country has yet fully implemented this blueprint for women’s empowerment, with issues such as ageing societies, migration and climate change bringing new […]
admin 8th December 2019
Human Rights Defenders play an essential role in the realisation of rights and promotion of equality. Not only do they fight for human rights in situations of oppression and abuse; they also act as monitors, drawing attention both of their respective communities and of the international community to otherwise neglected violations and threats; they assist victims […]