Visa to Europe: The Convertible Currency of Human Rights in Ukraine
For almost two years the world has watched as the West and Russia have battled over competing visions for Ukraine’s future which have left the country divided. Reports continue to...
Old Problems, New Media: Revenge Porn and the Law
Welcome to RightsUp, a podcast from the Oxford Human Rights Hub. We look at the big human rights issues of the day, bringing in new perspectives from all over the...
I am not here to delight you’: Indira Jaising and gender justice in India
Welcome to RightsUp, a podcast from the Oxford Human Rights Hub. We look at the big human rights issues of the day, bringing in new perspectives from all over the...
Substantive Equality for Women: Connecting Human Rights and Public Policy
A video produced by the Communications and Outreach Unit at UNRISD, based on the workshop Substantive Equality for Women: Connecting Human Rights and Public Policy, with panelists including OxHRH director...
Iran’s Citizenship Law: Political Considerations or Recognition of Inherent Human Rights?
For years the plight of thousands of children born to Iranian mothers married to foreign men has been the subject of discussion. These individuals, whose number is estimated at about...
Recent Developments in the UN Human Rights Council: Traditional Values and Women’s Right to Equality in the Family
In recent years at the United Nation’s Human Right’s Council (UNHRC) an ideological challenge has been directed against the universality of international human rights by a strong religious lobby. Religions...
Access to Justice: A Facet of Gender Equality
In its last session, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW Committee) released its thirty-third General Recommendation on women’s access to justice. This blog has detailed the...
Keeping Abreast of Hong Kong’s ‘Breast Assault’ Case: A Legal and Feminist Critique
All men are equal, but some men are more equal than others – others as in women, regrettably. It may not be surprising to find this in a dystopian animal...
Spain’s Commitment to International Human Rights Law: 26 Murdered Children Isn’t Regrettable, It’s Terrifying
On 31st July 2015, the statistics on the number of children killed at the hands of their fathers during visitation or custody in Spain rose from 24 to 26. These...
The Pornography of Policing: The “Rape Bait”
In Bombay, two men posing as cops raped a 17-year-old girl and filmed the violence they perpetrated on the phone they stole from her. Her assailants subsequently threatened to release...
Southall Black Sisters: Dissent to Speak Power to Truth, Hope to Counter Hate and Violence
Editor’s Note: Pragna Patel of UK women’s organisation Southall Black Sisters (SBS) and Mauro Cabral of Global Action for Trans Equality (GATE) were given the inaugural Bob Hepple Equality Award,...
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 all-woman short-list was interviewed for a vacancy on the...
