Almas Shaikh

OxHRH Communications

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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Oxford Human Rights Hub – Rhodes University Travelling Research Fellowship Programme Experience

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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 ...
Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice Working Paper Series

Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice Working Paper Series

The Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice at UT Austin's Working Paper Series seeking to publish innovative papers by established and early-career researchers, practitioners, and students. Authors from all disciplines are ...
Prohibiting Hijab in Educational Institutions: A Constitutional Assessment

Prohibiting Hijab in Educational Institutions: A Constitutional Assessment

Image description: A group of school girls wearing hijab standing in a line (Source: File Photo, The Indian Express) The State Government in Karnataka, India, recently introduced a Government Order, in effect prohibiting the hijab ...