Deporting Rohingya Refugees: Indian Supreme Court Violates Principle of Non-refoulement

Deporting Rohingya Refugees: Indian Supreme Court Violates Principle of Non-refoulement

On 4 October 2018, a three judge bench of the Supreme Court of India refused to stay the deportation of seven ...
Courts and Climate Change II: Appeals Court Upholds Landmark Ruling in Dutch Climate Case

Courts and Climate Change II: Appeals Court Upholds Landmark Ruling in Dutch Climate Case

The Hague Court of Appeals has upheld its human rights-based landmark ruling in the historic Climate Case that ...
Scholarships for Master’s in International Human Rights Law

Scholarships for Master’s in International Human Rights Law

Scholarships are available for our part-time Master’s in International Human Rights Law at the University of ...
All Quiet in the Turkish Courts

All Quiet in the Turkish Courts

In Western academia, few efforts have been made to portray the status of the Turkish jurisdiction and its stance ...
The Prohibition of Torture 70 years after the UDHR

The Prohibition of Torture 70 years after the UDHR

Article 5 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which is 70 this December, provides in unequivocal terms ...
Justice Kennedy on Healthcare

Justice Kennedy on Healthcare

Justice Anthony Kennedy, who long served as the swing vote on important healthcare-related decisions, retired from ...
Bonavero Institute of Human Rights: Student Programmes

Bonavero Institute of Human Rights: Student Programmes

The Bonavero Institute of Human Rights invites applications for two of its student programmes this term: ...
The Consequences of the Ashers Cake Judgment

The Consequences of the Ashers Cake Judgment

The Supreme Court has allowed the appeal by Belfast bakery Ashers Bakery and its managers Mr and Mrs McArthur in ...
Indian Supreme Court Strikes Down Ban on Women’s Entry into Religious Temple

Indian Supreme Court Strikes Down Ban on Women’s Entry into Religious Temple

Recently, a (4:1) majority of a five-judge bench of the Indian Supreme Court in Indian Lawyers ...
OxHRH Communications Director Awarded Postdoctoral Fellowship in Media Law

OxHRH Communications Director Awarded Postdoctoral Fellowship in Media Law

OxHRH Communications Director, Dr Kira Allmann, has been awarded a three-year Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in ...
Religious symbols in schools: Passive and harmless or a powerful threat?

Religious symbols in schools: Passive and harmless or a powerful threat?

In Lautsi v Italy (2012), the applicant argued that the presence of crucifixes in state school classrooms violated ...
Persecution of rights activists and voices of dissent in India

Persecution of rights activists and voices of dissent in India

Recently, in a series of synchronized raids carried throughout India, various human rights activists and vocal ...
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