UN Human Rights Council Adopts Belgian Resolution on Capital Punishment

UN Human Rights Council Adopts Belgian Resolution on Capital Punishment

On 1 October 2015, the UN Human Rights Council (‘UNHRC’) in Geneva adopted a resolution on capital punishment ...
Peking-Oxford-Stanford Conference on The Future of the Internet

Peking-Oxford-Stanford Conference on The Future of the Internet

The University of Oxford’s Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy (PCMLP) is hosting a major conference on ...
Rerouting From the Treaty Road Most Travelled

Rerouting From the Treaty Road Most Travelled

The corporate entity has been described as the most effective structure for capital accumulation because it allows ...
Business & Human Rights Resource Centre-Employment Opportunities

Business & Human Rights Resource Centre-Employment Opportunities

Business & Human Rights Resource Centre is recruiting 4 new positions over the next few months. Development ...
Tyco: Travel, Working Time, Wages and the Route to Casualisation

Tyco: Travel, Working Time, Wages and the Route to Casualisation

As casualisation strategies proliferate in the wake of the global crisis, techniques are being devised to exclude ...
Free Film Screening of Timbuktu in Oxford

Free Film Screening of Timbuktu in Oxford

The Foundation for Law, Justice and Society in association with Wolfson College and the Centre for Socio Legal ...
Hopeful Developments in Family Violence in Australia

Hopeful Developments in Family Violence in Australia

In Australia, one woman per week dies from intimate partner violence. By October 2015, 62 women had died due to ...
The Unreal(istic) Rhetoric of Children’s Rights in Colombia’s Reparations Law

The Unreal(istic) Rhetoric of Children’s Rights in Colombia’s Reparations Law

Editor’s note: To celebrate National Pro Bono Week, the OxHRH Blog is showcasing the experiences and insights of ...
Prof Fredman participates in Panel Event: Setting the Rules of the Game-How Can  Regulations of Private Actors ensure the Right to Education in the Post-2015 Setting?

Prof Fredman participates in Panel Event: Setting the Rules of the Game-How Can Regulations of Private Actors ensure the Right to Education in the Post-2015 Setting?

The Right to Education Project, the Privatisation in Education Research Initiative, and the Global Initiative for ...
The High Court of Delhi on Pregnancy and Sex Discrimination

The High Court of Delhi on Pregnancy and Sex Discrimination

This July, the High Court of Delhi handed down a landmark decision concerning sex discrimination under the Indian ...
The Mau Mau Litigation – Justice at Last

The Mau Mau Litigation – Justice at Last

It is rare for the British Government to apologise for state sponsored human rights abuses, particularly if they ...
Rule of Law in Hong Kong’s Brave New World

Rule of Law in Hong Kong’s Brave New World

Hong Kong must have thought to itself, “O brave new world, that has such people in it”, as it listened to a speech ...