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Internship Opportunity at the Universal Rights Group

Internship Opportunity at the Universal Rights Group

The Universal Rights Group (URG) is currently seeking an intern to start in January 2016, for a period of 3-6 months (negotiable). The successful candidate will have the chance to attend the 31st session of the Human Rights Council ...
Politics of laïcité in France : The republican project under pressure (2004-2015)-Dr Stephanie Hennette Vauchez (Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense)

Politics of laïcité in France : The republican project under pressure (2004-2015)-Dr Stephanie Hennette Vauchez (Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense)

Over the past decade, the legal principle of laïcité [secularism] has undergone radical changes. Initially a principle that guaranteed individual religious freedom and generated obligations of neutrality for public authorities only, ...
New Publication: Freedom of Religion and Belief: An International Law Commentary by Heiner Bielefeldt, Nazila Ghanea, and Michael Wiener

New Publication: Freedom of Religion and Belief: An International Law Commentary by Heiner Bielefeldt, Nazila Ghanea, and Michael Wiener

Heiner Bielefeldt, United Nations Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief and Professor of Human Rights and Human Rights Politics at the University of Erlangen- Nürnberg, Nazila Ghanea, Associate Professor in International ...
New Film Urges End of Gender Discriminatory Nationality Laws

New Film Urges End of Gender Discriminatory Nationality Laws

Today, on the occasion of Human Rights Day the Equal Rights Trust has launched My Children’s Future, a film which highlights the devastating consequences of laws implemented in 27 countries which deny women the ability to pass on ...
Call for Papers: Asian Yearbook of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law

Call for Papers: Asian Yearbook of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law

Inaugural Launch Issue & International Conference on ISIS and Implications for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (June 2016)   The editors of the Asian Yearbook of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (AYBHRHL) and ...
Oxford University – Model United Nations Conference

Oxford University – Model United Nations Conference

Looking to expand your reach into current global human rights issues? Interested in the work of the UN? Join OxIMUN! Each year, the Oxford University United Nations Association hosts a Model United Nations Conference called OxIMUN. ...
Oxford Brookes Documentary Club: The Look of Silence

Oxford Brookes Documentary Club: The Look of Silence

Through Joshua Oppenheimer’s work filming perpetrators of the 1960s anti-communist Indonesian genocide, a family of survivors discover how their son was murdered and the identity of the men who killed him. The youngest brother is ...
New Publication: Domestic Application of the European Convention of Human Rights by Dr Eirik Bjorge

New Publication: Domestic Application of the European Convention of Human Rights by Dr Eirik Bjorge

Domestic courts are entrusted with the application of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), as faithful trustees of the rights protected in the Convention. This book analyses the way in which the domestic courts in the ...
Wadham Human Rights Forum Film screening and discussion – Fourteen Days in May : Edward Johnson’s fight for his life

Wadham Human Rights Forum Film screening and discussion – Fourteen Days in May : Edward Johnson’s fight for his life

Wadham Human Rights Forum Film screening and discussion -Fourteen Days in May : Edward Johnson’s fight for his life Monday 30th November 2015 Moser Theatre, Wadham College, 5.30pm Meet Film Director, Paul Hamann, ...
OPBP Annual Welcome Event

OPBP Annual Welcome Event

The Oxford Pro Bono Publico cordially invites you to the Annual Welcome Event! OPBP is a renowned and award-winning organisation based at the Oxford Law Faculty and affiliated with the Oxford Human Rights Hub. Every year, ...
Governing Global Climate Change: Potential and Prospects of a Paris ‎Accord – International Symposium, University of Cambridge

Governing Global Climate Change: Potential and Prospects of a Paris ‎Accord – International Symposium, University of Cambridge

Governing Global Climate Change: Potential and Prospects of a Paris ‎Accord - International Symposium -‎ Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge 8:30 – 18:00 / 28 November 2015 What ...
Monitoring Report on the Right to Freedom of Religion or Belief in Turkey

Monitoring Report on the Right to Freedom of Religion or Belief in Turkey

The Freedom of Belief Initiative and the Norwegian Helsinki Committee are pleased to share the English translation of our Monitoring Report on the Right to Freedom of Religion or Belief in Turkey (July 2014 - June 2015). The report ...