Fostering a Human Rights Community: OxHRH Graduate Student Workshop

Fostering a Human Rights Community: OxHRH Graduate Student Workshop

On Wednesday 29 May 2019, the OxHRH held its fifth workshop for MPhil and DPhil students at Oxford University ...
Brazil’s top court uses anti-racism legislation to make discrimination against LGBT people a criminal offence

Brazil’s top court uses anti-racism legislation to make discrimination against LGBT people a criminal offence

On 13th June 2019, Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court (STF), by a majority of 8 to 3, recognized discrimination on the ...
Outcomes from the Workshop on Vertical Inequality and Human Rights

Outcomes from the Workshop on Vertical Inequality and Human Rights

On 17th May 2019, the Sciences Po Law Clinic and the Global Initiative for Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights ...
New Book Edited by Jonathan Herring and Camilla Pickles

New Book Edited by Jonathan Herring and Camilla Pickles

Jonathan Herring and Camilla Pickles' new edited collection Childbirth, Vulnerability and Law: Exploring Issues of ...
#Repeal162: Same-Sex Marriage Bogeyman an Incomprehensible Justification for Criminalizing Same-Sex Conduct

#Repeal162: Same-Sex Marriage Bogeyman an Incomprehensible Justification for Criminalizing Same-Sex Conduct

Over the past six years, Kenyan human rights activists, lawyers and organisations have secured key legal victories ...
The ‘Unaffordable’ Pro-life Abortion Policy in Kenya

The ‘Unaffordable’ Pro-life Abortion Policy in Kenya

The narrow basis for the procurement of abortions in Kenya discriminates against women and girls based on their ...
Cuts to the UN Human Rights Bodies? We Know What This Leads To

Cuts to the UN Human Rights Bodies? We Know What This Leads To

The global populist backlash against multilateralism and rights is reaching the UN treaty bodies. These ...
Two New Publications from Hart Publishing

Two New Publications from Hart Publishing

The Faces of Human Rights Edited by Kasey McCall-Smith, Jan Wouters and Felipe Gómez Isa As human rights ...
Dutch child labour due diligence law: a step towards mandatory human rights due diligence

Dutch child labour due diligence law: a step towards mandatory human rights due diligence

On 14 May 2019, the Dutch Senate adopted the Child Labour Due Diligence Law [Wet zorgplicht kinderarbeid]. The law ...
City Initiative on Migrants with Irregular Status in Europe (C-MISE): Guidance and Video

City Initiative on Migrants with Irregular Status in Europe (C-MISE): Guidance and Video

The University of Oxford’s Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), together with nine Eurocities member ...
Boris Johnson combats allegations of misconduct in public office

Boris Johnson combats allegations of misconduct in public office

Boris Johnson has been summoned to appear in the criminal courts: Is the case just a political stunt or ...
The entry of women into the legal profession under British colonial rule

The entry of women into the legal profession under British colonial rule

This year sees the centenary of the abolition of the legal barriers to women’s entry into the legal profession in ...