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The Oxford Human Rights Hub has had a very successful year connecting human rights academics, practitioners and policy-makers all over the world through our blog, seminar series, conferences, webinars , webcasts, podcasts, and pro ...
OxHRH Michaelmas Term Card

OxHRH Michaelmas Term Card

The Oxford Human Rights Hub is pleased to announce its Michaelmas Term Seminar Series. The seminars are at 1pm in Senior Common Room, Law Faculty, Oxford University. Refreshments are provided. The seminars are a wonderful ...
Challenges of Representation in Law and Politics-Sarah Sackman (Francis Talyor Building)

Challenges of Representation in Law and Politics-Sarah Sackman (Francis Talyor Building)

This seminar will explore what it means to “represent” a client in court in public law litigation. What are the strengths and limitations of representation and how does representing individuals or groups in the legal context compare ...
Panel Event: UN Women’s Progress of the World’s Women 2015 Report ‘Transforming Economies, Realising Rights’

Panel Event: UN Women’s Progress of the World’s Women 2015 Report ‘Transforming Economies, Realising Rights’

The OxHRH is delighted to be holding a panel event for the recently released UN Women’s Progress of the World’s Women 2015-2016 Report ‘Transforming Economies, Realizing Rights’. UN Women’s flagship report, 'shows that, all too ...
Equal Rights Trust Publishes New Report on Gender Discrimination in Nationality Laws

Equal Rights Trust Publishes New Report on Gender Discrimination in Nationality Laws

A report which focuses on the devastating impact of discriminatory nationality laws in Madagascar and Nepal has been published by the Equal Rights Trust highlighting how, in some countries with such laws, women are not able to pass on ...
Open Letter from International Lawyers: Re-opened for Signatures

Open Letter from International Lawyers: Re-opened for Signatures

This open letter emerged from a session on 'Refugee Crisis and Europe' that took place at the 11th Annual Conference of the European Society of International Law in Oslo on 12th September 2015. Those international lawyers present at ...
OxHRH Webinar-Is there a refugee crisis in Europe, or just a crisis in the lack of refugee protection? Dr Cathryn Costello (Oxford University) and Prof Guy Goodwin-Gill (Oxford University)

OxHRH Webinar-Is there a refugee crisis in Europe, or just a crisis in the lack of refugee protection? Dr Cathryn Costello (Oxford University) and Prof Guy Goodwin-Gill (Oxford University)

The OxHRH Webinar is archived and now available to view here! For those interested in learning more on refugees, aslyum-seekers, the EU and the UNHCR, Dr Cathryn Costello and Professor Guy Goodwin-Gill have prepared a list ...
Upcoming Virtual Talk from UC Berkeley Law: "Understanding International Human Rights Commitments:  Control Mechanisms, Legitimacy and Domestic Change"

Upcoming Virtual Talk from UC Berkeley Law: "Understanding International Human Rights Commitments: Control Mechanisms, Legitimacy and Domestic Change"

The Berkeley Comparative Anti-Discrimination Law Virtual Study Group is giving a presentation on Thursday, September 24, 2015 at 9:00 am in Berkeley in Room 136 Boalt Hall on: "Understanding International Human Rights Commitments: ...
Next Week’s Blog Series on Human Rights and the Refugee Crisis in Europe

Next Week’s Blog Series on Human Rights and the Refugee Crisis in Europe

Across the world, millions of people are undertaking long, dangerous and desperate journeys across countries and continents. Some are fleeing conflict zones, persecution and famine; others are driven by the desire to better the lives ...
Launch of Fiction and Human Rights Network at TORCH: ‘Dignity and the Novel Since 1948’

Launch of Fiction and Human Rights Network at TORCH: ‘Dignity and the Novel Since 1948’

The launch of the Fiction and Human Rights Network at TORCH: 'Dignity and the Novel since 1948' This is an interdisciplinary symposium at which lawyers, literary scholars, philosophers and others discuss the relationship between ...
Hibernian Law Journal Call for Submissions

Hibernian Law Journal Call for Submissions

The Hibernian Law Journal (HLJ) is an annual publication produced by young lawyers in Ireland with the support of various law firms and the Law Society of Ireland. The Journal has a multidisciplinary focus, facilitating detailed ...
OPBP Announces 2015 SAJAP Award Recipient

OPBP Announces 2015 SAJAP Award Recipient

Oxford Pro Bono Publico expresses its heartiest congratulations to Michael Rhimes – this year’s recipient of the Southern African Judicial Assistance Project (SAJAP) award. Michael will clerk with the Namibian Supreme Court, ...