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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Feminist Frontiers in Climate Justice – Climate Injustice: A Gendered Global Crisis
Oxford Human Rights Hub · Feminist Frontiers in Climate Justice - Climate Injustice: A Gendered Global Crisis
In this two-part podcast series, we are exploring why efforts to mitigate climate change need to be aware of women’s ...
Women in Constitutions – Podcast Series
Virtually all constitutions guarantee women’s right to equality, yet, there is a rise in backlash against legal, political, economic, social and cultural efforts to achieve women’s equality.
This podcast series speaks with ...
External paid internship opportunity: Oxford Human Rights Hub (OxHRH) / ASSEDEL internship (Strasbourg)
The Oxford Human Rights Hub (OxHRH) brings together academics, practitioners, and policy-makers from across the globe to advance the understanding and protection of human rights and equality. Through the vigorous exchange of ideas and ...
Discrimination Law Podcast (3 part series)
In this podcast, we are exploring some of the key themes in Professor Sandra Fredman’s monograph, Discrimination Law – the new, third edition of which was published by Oxford University Press in December 2022. Sandra ...
2024 International Human Rights Law Summer School
The 2024 International Human Rights Law Summer School is a 26-day residential programme running from 2 to 27 July. It is offered by the Bonavero Institute for Human Rights and George Washington University Law School, based at the ...
Film Screening: The Soil and the Sea
The film, The Soil and The Sea is being released in UK cinemas and will screen at Curzon Oxford on February 29th (+ director Q&A).
The film, featuring a text by Elias Khoury and produced in partnership with NGO Act for the ...
The University of Oxford Human Rights Hub Journal Invites Submissions for a Special Issue
Proposals should consist of three to five papers that address a topic of high current interest in the field of international, regional, comparative or national human rights law. Each submission should be in the range of 10,000 to ...
ACADEMIC FREEDOM AND FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION IN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS
For her upcoming report to the Human Rights Council to be presented in June 2024, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to education, Ms. Farida Shaheed, will consider academic freedom and freedom of expression in ...
Mirjana Spoljaric: From Gaza to Ukraine and Syria – the challenges of humanitarian action in today’s intractable conflicts
Trinity College has a an exciting programme of timely Trinity Talks scheduled for its second season of Events at Trinity addressing a range of pressing topics facing societies today.
Mirjana Spoljaric: From Ukraine to ...
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 ...
