Almas Shaikh is a human rights lawyer from India, currently reading for DPhil at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford. She has been awarded the LMH Postgraduate Scholarship, the Barbara Mills Graduate Scholarship in Law, the Alpa Visiting Scholarship and the SERA-LSA Grant. Her research focuses on the role of intersectionality in affirmative action within Indian constitutional law to expand access to education and employment, under the supervision of Professor Sandra Fredman.
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THE CENTRE FOR CHILD LAW AND OXFORD HUMAN RIGHTS HUB URGE THE SUPREME COURT OF APPEAL TO PUT CHILDREN FIRST IN LANDMARK CLASS ACTION CASE ABOUT LEAD POISONING
The Centre for Child Law (CCL), together with legal scholars from the Oxford Human Rights Hub (“the Amici”), will appear before the Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein as amicus curiae in the matter of Various Parties obo Minors ...
Call for Chapters: Charting the Council’s Future: Reflections on the United Nations Human Rights Council at Twenty
The year 2026 will mark the twentieth anniversary of the establishment of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), a milestone that offers an important opportunity for reflection, critique, and forward-thinking analysis. Since ...
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 ...
