admin 6th February 2020
We are pleased to announce that applications for the 2020 Summer School in International Human Rights Law, held at New College, Oxford, are now being accepted. The summer school runs from Sunday 12 July 2020 – Saturday 08 August 2020. The closing date for applications is 12 noon UK time (midday) on 1 April 2020 […]
admin 5th February 2020
Overview The one-day conference to be held on Monday 17 February 12-5pm will bring together medical professionals and representatives of various faiths in order to discuss the ethical challenges arising from the practice of organ donation and transplantation. In light of the Organ Donation (Deemed Consent) Act 2019 , a discussion of the potential ethical implications of this new law […]
admin 4th February 2020
The Human Rights Age Journal is a scientific journal of international relevance, published in English, peer-reviewed and open-access, containing papers concerning Human Rights from different approaches. The Journal has been included in SCOPUS and in the Emerging Sources Citation Index (Web of Science). It is also in: Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), LATINDEX (catalogue), […]
admin 3rd February 2020
More than a year and a half have passed since the start of “Even the Finest of Warriors” project, and at the end of this first phase, the project has released the first part of the book on Egypt and Tunisia (available in EN/AR). An interactive website accompanying the project was launched last February, which […]
admin 20th January 2020
The Bonavero Institute seeks to enrich the human rights experience of Oxford students, and to assist them to develop careers in the broad field of human rights. Several programmes have been developed to pursue this goal: a Human Rights Strategy Non-credit Course for law students and students at the Blavatnik School of Government and the […]
admin 20th January 2020
The Oxford Policy Fellowship is now accepting applications for Fellowships 2020-2022. The Fellowship gives legal professionals the opportunity to work within a government in low- and middle-income countries as a civil servant reporting to local managers. Because the demand for Oxford Policy Fellows is led by host governments – rather than being imposed by an […]
admin 17th January 2020
Feminism, Categorisation and Forced Migration This interdisciplinary series will explore a range of topics in refugee law, politics and history with particular attention being paid to feminist and/or gendered approaches to displacement and mobility and the categorisation(s) of people as ‘refugees’, ‘citizens’, ‘settlers’ or ‘migrants’. 5:00-6:30pm,* Wednesdays, Seminar Room 1, Queen Elizabeth House Series convenor: […]
admin 16th January 2020
On 10 March, the UoN Human Rights Law Centre and Doughty Street Chambers will co-host in London a one-day training course entitled “Social Rights in Europe: Advocacy and Litigation”. Led by international experts in the field, this session will provide practitioners, civil society, academics and others with information about social rights standards, mechanisms and avenues that have historically received […]
admin 11th January 2020
Child Poverty Action Group works on behalf of the one in four children in the UK growing up in poverty. It doesn’t have to be like this. We use our understanding of what causes poverty and the impact it has on children’s lives to campaign for policies that will prevent and solve poverty – for […]
admin 11th January 2020
OxHRH Director Sandy Fredman will be moderating this roundtable.
admin 24th December 2019
A new edited collection on Anti-Discrimination Law in Civil Law Jurisdictions by Barbara Havelková and Mathias Möschel has just been published. This collection of essays explores the evolution of anti-discrimination law in European civil law jurisdictions. Historically, scholarship in this area has focused on the common law, which has also taken the lead in developing the […]
admin 23rd December 2019
The OxHRH Publications Page is a dynamic teaching and research resource that showcases the latest human rights publications from our global network. The latest editions are: Mark Graham and William H Dutton (eds), Society and the Internet: How Networks of Information and Communication are Changing our Lives (2nd edn, OUP, 2019) Mark Graham, Rob Kitchin, Shannon Mattern and Joe Shaw (eds), How to Run a City Like Amazon, and […]