Almas is a human rights lawyer from India. She is currently reading as a DPhil candidate (PRS) at the University of Oxford and is a Barbara Mills Graduate Scholar in Law. She focuses on the role of intersectionality in Indian discrimination law, under the supervision of Professor Sandra Fredman.
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US Affirmative Action Series
On 29 June 2023, the Supreme Court of the United States, in a majority decision, held that race-based affirmative action programs in college admissions processes violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. In this ...
Minority v Minority Only Benefits the Privileged
The US Supreme Court’s decision Students for Fair Admissions v Presidents and Fellows of Harvard College (2023) dealt a blow to substantive equality in education. The petition claimed that providing race-based considerations in the ...
Call for Abstracts – OxHRH Graduate Workshop
Call for abstracts: OxHRHGraduateWorkshop- for MPhil / DPhil students working on Human Rights
The Oxford Human Rights Hub is pleased to announce a half-dayGraduateWorkshopfor MPhil and DPhil students working on human rights at ...
Oxford Human Rights Hub – Rhodes University Travelling Research Fellowship Programme Experience
Ugochukwu Ezeh is the recipient of the Oxford Human Rights Hub - Rhodes University Travelling Research Fellowship Programme. His fellowship at the Rhodes Law Faculty coincided with the judicial nullification of presidential election ...
Supporting Online Justice: Enhancing Accessibility, Participation, and Procedural Fairness
Working in partnership with HM Courts and Tribunal Service, Supporting Online Justice, project has produces a series of video guides for lay users for use in tribunals and family courts. The main output for this project has been the ...
BIICL Training
While BIICL is primarily known for its high quality research, events and publications, BIICL also engages in high quality, research-informed teaching and capacity building. Over the past years, that teaching and training has included ...
Call for Papers: The Age of Human Rights Journal
Call for Papers
The Age of Human Rights Journal
https://revistaselectronicas.ujaen.es/index.php/TAHRJ/index
The Age of Human Rights Journal is a scientific journal of international relevance, published in English, peer-reviewed ...
Call for participants: A comparative examination of the right to freedom of thought across multiple jurisdictions
The right to freedom of thought is protected by numerous international human rights treaties including Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Article 18(1) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political ...
World Law Forum Roundtable on ESG in Emerging Markets
Students of Oxford are invited to participate in the Roundtable on "ESG in Emerging Markets" being co-hosted by World Law Forum and BTG Legal on Friday, the 16th of September, 2022 in London, UK.
While there has been significant ...
India’s draft National Policy for Persons with Disabilities – Recommendations and Comments
Government of India's Department of Empowerment for Persons with Disabilities sough recommendations and comments from National Law School of India University (NLSIU) on its latest draft National Policy for Persons with Disabilities ...
Impact of the US Supreme Court Decision of Dobbs on Abortion Rights
Impact of the US Supreme Court Decision of Dobbs on Abortion Rights is a blog series by the Oxford Human Rights Hub exploring the changes within sexual and reproductive rights, and broader rights in light of the decision.
This ...
Global Rights Compliance Event: Launch of Legal Advisory Report and Policy Guidance
Global Rights Compliance is conducting an online launch of a ground breaking Legal Advisory Report and Policy Guidance, “Do No Harm: Mitigating Human Rights Risks When Interacting with Medical Institutions & Professionals in ...
