OxHRH Publishes Workbook on the Right to Education
The Oxford Human Rights Hub has published its first Human Rights Workbook on the topic of the Right to Education. The OxHRH Workbook is designed to provide an introduction to...
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The UK Bill of Rights: Changes to Human Rights Protection may Impact Climate Litigation
Across the world, human rights-based arguments are increasingly deployed in climate litigation against public bodies. However, in the UK, potential reforms to the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA) – an...
لاہور ہائی کورٹ نے برطانوی نوآبادیاتی دور کے غداری کے قانون کو کالعدم قرار دے دیا
30 مارچ 2023 کو لاہور ہائی کورٹ کے جسٹس شاہد کریم نے ہارون فاروق بمقابلہ فیڈریشن آف پاکستان کیس کا تاریخی فیصلہ سنایا۔ اس فیصلے میں کہا گیا کہ پاکستان...
Lahore High Court Strikes Down Pakistan’s Colonial-era Sedition Law
On March 30 2023, Justice Shahid Karim of the Lahore High Court (LHC) delivered a landmark judgment in Haroon Farooq v Federation of Pakistan. This judgement held that the sedition...
The Coronation, the Public Order Act 2023 and ‘Free Speech’
In recent years, a lot has been written about ‘the right to protest’ and ‘the right to free speech’ in the UK. Yet neither phrase appears in the latest Public...
Cathryn Costello on the UK Immigration Bill
Oxford Human Rights Hub · Cathryn Costello on the UK Immigration Bill TRANSCRIPT: Dr Cathryn Costello: The Illegal Migration Bill Daniil Ukhorskiy (0:00) You’re listening to RightsUp, a podcast from...
‘We have found institutional racism, misogyny and homophobia in the Met’: Baroness Casey Review
A few days ago, the final report of an independent review into the standards of behaviour and internal culture of the Metropolitan Police Service (Met) was published. The review was...
Equality Doesn’t Always Mean Integration: The Right to Education for Neurodiverse People
Image Description: A young woman with pink hair is tossing her head in joy. Proponents of the rights of people with disabilities widely subscribe to the social model of disability:...
Child-friendly Control Orders? Why Child-specific Counter-terrorism Measures are Both Unnecessary and Dangerous
Image Description: The photo is of a classroom. There is a red apple on a pile of four books. There are five colour pencils lying next to the pile of...
Challenging the Right to Strike: the UK Transport Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill
Image description: A group of striking people march through a city street holding union banners The Transport Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill, currently passing through the UK Parliament, seeks to...
The Paris Agreement as a Human Rights Treaty: PSB et al. v Brazil
Image description: Satellite image of Brazil during natural disaster crisis in 2020 In late October, Brazil ousted incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro and elected Lula, who has since promised to cut...
The Scottish Independence Ruling: Here we go again!
Image description: a rally in support of Scottish independence. Implementation of the right of self-determination should be congruent with the free, collectively expressed will of all legally qualified peoples. Changing...
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