
We continue our celebration of National Pro Bono Week (NPBW), today with a post from Claire Palmer on her ...

On 19 September, the Human Rights and International Law Unit of the School of Law and Social Justice at the ...

Often described as “an island of gold floating on a sea of oil”, Papua New Guinea (PNG) is one of the top ten ...

During the last week of August the UN headquarters in New York was effectively taken over by civil society. Over ...

Editor's note: this post is the winning entry for the OxHRH Summer Short Essay Competition 2014.
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On 19 July, after eighteen months of fraught negotiation, a UN Open Working Group of seventy governments adopted a ...

La situación de derechos humanos en México ha sufrido un deterioro notorio en los últimos años debido a múltiples ...

The human rights situation in Mexico has suffered a notorious deterioration in the past few years due to multiple ...

The UN Forum 2014, orchestrated by the United Nations Association-UK on 28 June, was the largest public event on ...

South Africans often proudly proclaim that our Constitution is one of the most progressive in the world. Yet if ...

'Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.' (Aristotle).
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On January 21st and 22nd, the Third Conference of States Parties to the American Convention on Human Rights (ACHR) ...