Background Paper and Programme for The Challenge of Public-Private Partnerships in Realising the Right to Education

Background Paper and Programme for The Challenge of Public-Private Partnerships in Realising the Right to Education

The Oxford Human Rights Hub and the Education Support Programme of the Open Society Foundations are greatly ...
The Inaugural Bob Hepple Equality Award Celebrates Equal Rights Activists and Advances Support to their Cause

The Inaugural Bob Hepple Equality Award Celebrates Equal Rights Activists and Advances Support to their Cause

Last week the global equality community united as two equal rights activists Pragna Patel of UK women’s ...
Small Steps in the Journey Towards Gender Equality on the South African Bench

Small Steps in the Journey Towards Gender Equality on the South African Bench

The 9th July 2015 was an important day for the South African judiciary. For the first time in our history, an ...
OxHRH and HRFG Associate, Judge Dhaya Pillay, One of Four Nominees for SA Constitutional Court Vacancy

OxHRH and HRFG Associate, Judge Dhaya Pillay, One of Four Nominees for SA Constitutional Court Vacancy

The Oxford Human Rights Hub and the Oxford Martin School Human Rights for Future Generations Programme would like ...
Enforcing a ‘Universal’ Declaration: UN Efforts to hold Non-State Actors Accountable for Human Rights

Enforcing a ‘Universal’ Declaration: UN Efforts to hold Non-State Actors Accountable for Human Rights

The UN General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 as an expression of universally ...
Book Release: ‘The Jurisprudence of Lord Hoffmann’ (Hart 2015)

Book Release: ‘The Jurisprudence of Lord Hoffmann’ (Hart 2015)

The Jurisprudence of Lord Hoffmann is now available from Hart Publishing. Lord Leonard Hoffmann remains one of ...
Entering the No-Go Zone – Social Security and Discrimination in the UK Supreme Court

Entering the No-Go Zone – Social Security and Discrimination in the UK Supreme Court

It is rare for a human rights challenge in the social security context to succeed in the English courts. In large ...
New OxHRH Communications Manager – Welcome Kira Allmann!

New OxHRH Communications Manager – Welcome Kira Allmann!

The OxHRH Blog is delighted to welcome Kira Allmann to the team as the Communications Manager. Kira completed a ...
Single Mothers, Absent Fathers and the Best Interests of the Child: Drawing a Fine Balance in the ABC Case

Single Mothers, Absent Fathers and the Best Interests of the Child: Drawing a Fine Balance in the ABC Case

India is a country where religious rights of different communities are constitutionally protected. However ...
Global Equality Community Unites to Celebrate Equal Rights Activists on Thursday July 16

Global Equality Community Unites to Celebrate Equal Rights Activists on Thursday July 16

Equality and human rights advocates from around the world will celebrate equal rights this Thursday as former ...
A Supreme Court at the Centre of a Deeply Divided Society

A Supreme Court at the Centre of a Deeply Divided Society

From January 01 to April 01 2015 I worked as a Foreign Law Clerk at the Supreme Court of Israel. This internship ...
"You Have the Right to an Attorney that We Approve of”: Right to Counsel under Iran's New Criminal Procedure Code

"You Have the Right to an Attorney that We Approve of”: Right to Counsel under Iran's New Criminal Procedure Code

Under Iran’s new Criminal Procedure Code only lawyers pre-approved by the Head of the Judiciary may intervene ...