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Equal Rights Trust to Mark Human Rights Day by Launching a Guide for Litigators on Using Equality Strategies to Advance Economic and Social Rights

Equal Rights Trust to Mark Human Rights Day by Launching a Guide for Litigators on Using Equality Strategies to Advance Economic and Social Rights

On Wednesday 10 December 2014, Human Rights Day, the Equal Rights Trust will launchEconomic and Social Rights in the Courtroom: A Litigators’ Guide to Using Equality and Non-Discrimination Strategies to Advance Economic and Social ...
OLA Featured in the Oxford Mail

OLA Featured in the Oxford Mail

OLA volunteers are hard at work assisting in interviewing immigration clients, preparing bail applications for those detained at Campsfield Detention Centre and researching issues surrounding personal debit. The work OLA has been ...
The Right to Education in South Africa: The Challenges of Remedies and Enforcement

The Right to Education in South Africa: The Challenges of Remedies and Enforcement

The OxHRH in partnership with the Oxford Martin School Human Rights for Future Generations Programme is pleased to celebrate International Human Rights Day on December 10 by participating in The Law Society's Human Rights Week series ...
General Recommendation on Displaced and Stateless Women

General Recommendation on Displaced and Stateless Women

On 5 November 2014, the UNHCR welcomed the release of the General Recommendation No. 32 on the gender-related dimensions of refugee, asylum, nationality and statelessness of women which OPBP helped prepare in 2009-2010. The ...
Oxford Pro Bono Publico Welcome Event and Informal Information Session

Oxford Pro Bono Publico Welcome Event and Informal Information Session

The 2014-2015 OPBP Executive Committee held its first welcome and informal information session on 18 November 2014. It was well attended with a huge turnout of graduate students interested in learning more about OPBP, how to get ...
The Lancet Publishes Special Edition on Violence against Women and Girls

The Lancet Publishes Special Edition on Violence against Women and Girls

Every day, millions of women and girls worldwide experience violence. This abuse takes many forms, including intimate physical and sexual partner violence, female genital mutilation, child and forced marriage, sex trafficking, and ...
Launch of new Children’s Rights Network in Oxford

Launch of new Children’s Rights Network in Oxford

This year has been an important one for the advancement of children’s rights. This week (20th November 2014) we have marked the 25th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the most widely-ratified human rights ...
Launch of new Children's Rights Network in Oxford

Launch of new Children's Rights Network in Oxford

This year has been an important one for the advancement of children’s rights. This week (20th November 2014) we have marked the 25th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the most widely-ratified human rights ...
'GamerGate' and Gendered Hate Speech

'GamerGate' and Gendered Hate Speech

What is ‘GamerGate’? Some say it is a movement demanding higher ethics in journalism, but this post will argue that it is yet another instance of sexism and hate speech online which remains unaddressed by States and online ...
Prof Paul Hunt Gives TedX Talk 'Equality – The Road Less Travelled'

Prof Paul Hunt Gives TedX Talk 'Equality – The Road Less Travelled'

Prof Hunt has recently delivered an important TedX talk 'Equality - The Road Less Travelled' You can watch the talk here:   Human rights actually save lives, reduce suffering, and empower individuals and communities. Often ...
Prof Paul Hunt Gives TedX Talk ‘Equality – The Road Less Travelled’

Prof Paul Hunt Gives TedX Talk ‘Equality – The Road Less Travelled’

Prof Hunt has recently delivered an important TedX talk 'Equality - The Road Less Travelled' You can watch the talk here:   Human rights actually save lives, reduce suffering, and empower individuals and communities. ...
Registration Open: 'Better Late Than Never' – Symposium on the CRC – 21 January 2015

Registration Open: 'Better Late Than Never' – Symposium on the CRC – 21 January 2015

25th Anniversary of the UK Ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child One-day symposium with speakers from government, judiciary, academia, NGOs and a child advocate Wednesday 21 January 2015, School of ...