Training Course: Social Rights in Europe: Advocacy and Litigation, 10th March 2020

Training Course: Social Rights in Europe: Advocacy and Litigation, 10th March 2020

On 10 March, the UoN Human Rights Law Centre and Doughty Street Chambers will co-host in London a one-day training ...
Work for CPAG – Lawyer

Work for CPAG – Lawyer

Child Poverty Action Group works on behalf of the one in four children in the UK growing up in poverty. It doesn’t ...
Women in Law: A Women’s World? Roundtable 27 January 2020

Women in Law: A Women’s World? Roundtable 27 January 2020

OxHRH Director Sandy Fredman will be moderating this roundtable.
South African court rejects petition to award constitutional damages and extend emotional shock and grief claims in pit-latrine drowning case

South African court rejects petition to award constitutional damages and extend emotional shock and grief claims in pit-latrine drowning case

In 2014, 5-year old Michael Komape tragically drowned in a sludge of human excrement when the pit-latrine at his ...
Younger women, older men: The perpetuation of gender discrimination through minimum legal age for marriage

Younger women, older men: The perpetuation of gender discrimination through minimum legal age for marriage

In India, the minimum legal age for marriage is different for men and women. Section 4(c), Special Marriage Act, ...
High Court Victory upholding the Right to Education for Undocumented Learners in South Africa

High Court Victory upholding the Right to Education for Undocumented Learners in South Africa

On Thursday 12 December, the Makhanda High Court affirmed that all learners in South Africa have the ...
Immigration Detention and the Dublin III Regulation (Part II/II)

Immigration Detention and the Dublin III Regulation (Part II/II)

In November, two important judgments were handed down concerning the legal regime governing immigration detention ...
South African Constitutional Court Affirms Doctrine of Common Purpose in Rape Cases

South African Constitutional Court Affirms Doctrine of Common Purpose in Rape Cases

In criminal law, the doctrine of common purpose establishes that where two or more people agree to a commit a ...
Immigration Detention and the Dublin III Regulation (Part I/II)

Immigration Detention and the Dublin III Regulation (Part I/II)

In November, two important judgments were handed down concerning the legal regime governing immigration detention ...
New edited collection from OxHRH Associate Barbara Havelková

New edited collection from OxHRH Associate Barbara Havelková

A new edited collection on Anti-Discrimination Law in Civil Law Jurisdictions by Barbara Havelková and Mathias ...
Eswatini Court Upholds a Widow’s Rights to Customary Land Use – A Beacon of Hope?

Eswatini Court Upholds a Widow’s Rights to Customary Land Use – A Beacon of Hope?

On October 9th, Ethel Dlamini (nee Gule), an elderly Swazi woman and a widow, approached the Courts to seek an ...
Tanzania’s Withdrawal of Access to the African Court: Further Retrogression in Human Rights Protection in East Africa

Tanzania’s Withdrawal of Access to the African Court: Further Retrogression in Human Rights Protection in East Africa

The Tanzanian government has withdrawn its special declaration to the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights ...
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