Posted on Monday 22 April 2013

The Centre for Applied Human Rights is launching an online distance learning Postgraduate Certificate in Defending Human Rights in October 2013.

Posted on Wednesday 6 March 2013

CAHR is offering one scholarship for the MA or the LLM in 2013-14.

Posted on Tuesday 5 March 2013

Current MA and LLM students recount their experiences of studying human rights at CAHR in week-long diaries.

Posted on Monday 4 March 2013

The Protective Fellowship Scheme is featured in the Spring issue of the University of York Magazine.

Posted on Monday 4 March 2013

Lars Waldorf talks about Rwanda's lack of media freedom in Washington, DC on 18 April 2013.

Posted on Friday 1 March 2013

Lars Waldorf conducts a research visit to the University of Bergen from 18-23 March 2013.

Posted on Monday 11 February 2013

Natasha Khan, a CAHR PhD student from Fiji, is coordinating the new Diploma in Leadership, Governance and Human Rights at the University of the South Pacific in Fiji.

Posted on Friday 8 February 2013

Lars Waldorf has become an editor of The International Journal of Human Rights.

Posted on Thursday 7 February 2013

Juliana Mensah has recently joined the Centre as the Leverhulme Trust artist in residence. She will be hosted by the Centre throughout 2013 and will deliver a number of creative initiatives.

Posted on Monday 4 February 2013

43 postgraduate students graduated from CAHR in ceremonies held at the University of York on 25-26 January 2013.

Posted on Thursday 31 January 2013

Lineo Tsikoane from Lesotho will join the competitive ISC 2013 summer programme taking place in New York and Massachusets.

Posted on Wednesday 30 January 2013

CAHR plays a role in the University of York’s Holocaust Memorial Day commemoration on 30 January 2013.

Posted on Wednesday 23 January 2013

Lars Waldorf talks about transitional justice at Durham Law School on 24 January 2013.

Posted on Friday 11 January 2013

The Protective Fellowship Scheme for Human Rights Defenders at Risk that has been run by the Centre since 2008 has so far this academic year welcomed ten human rights defenders as visiting fellows.

Posted on Thursday 20 December 2012

Students in the Centre's MA and LLM programmes have returned from field trips to South Africa and Malaysia.

Posted on Tuesday 18 December 2012

The Centre talked about human rights with staff from the Anne Frank Trust UK.

Posted on Monday 17 December 2012

"Refugees in Egypt: What Revolution? Whose Revolution?"

Posted on Thursday 22 November 2012

Lars Waldorf talks about humanitarian intervention and international criminal justice in Leeds on 23 November 2012.

Posted on Monday 12 November 2012

"HRDs and the Law" is a new theme at the SLSA annual conference in March 2013.

Posted on Thursday 8 November 2012

The Journal of Human Rights Practice has released a collection of four reviews on the Kony 2012 online video that campaigned for the arrest of Joseph Kony, alleged Commander-in-Chief of the Lord’s Resistance Army.

Posted on Monday 5 November 2012

Lars Waldorf talks about transitional justice at the Overseas Development Institute in London on 6-7 November.

Posted on Wednesday 24 October 2012

Martin Jones, Lecturer in International Human Rights Law at CAHR, will be delivering a workshop on refugee law, policy and practice in Taiwan as part of a regional conference on refugee protection in East Asia.

Posted on Thursday 18 October 2012

The Somaliland-based NGO Talowadag, whose Director Guleid Osman is a former CAHR Protective Fellow, has secured a 9-month project from the UNDP.

Posted on Monday 15 October 2012

CAHR is delighted to welcome almost 40 students onto its two postgraduate courses for 2012-13.

Posted on Tuesday 9 October 2012

CAHR is happy to announce that the new online distance learning course "Working Safely: Managing Risk & Strengthening Protection" has been launched.

Posted on Monday 8 October 2012

The Journal of Human Rights Practice hosts a special issue on the protection of human rights defenders

Posted on Monday 24 September 2012

Dr Jonathan Ensor together with other researchers has published a paper entitled "Understanding Context in Learning-centred Approaches to Climate Change Communication" in the September issue of the IDS Bulletin.

Posted on Monday 3 September 2012

Lars Waldorf is giving a presentation on transitional justice and socio-economic wrongs at the University of Essex on 8-9 September.

Posted on Wednesday 1 August 2012

Government and Civil Society Cooperation to Protect Refugee Rights and Development, Seoul.

Posted on Wednesday 1 August 2012

CAHR Defenders in the local press.

Posted on Wednesday 1 August 2012

CAHR will host ten human rights defenders from around the world.

Posted on Wednesday 1 August 2012

Centre takes lead in pilot project on York as a Human Rights City.

Posted on Wednesday 1 August 2012

Article on transitional justice published by CAHR staff.

Posted on Monday 23 July 2012

Alice Nah participated in a Roundtable on Temporary Protection organised by the UNHCR in San Remo

Posted on Tuesday 19 June 2012

Martin Jones is participating in a panel session on the provision of legal services to refugees and will chair a round-table workshop of Middle Eastern refugee organisations

Posted on Monday 18 June 2012

Lars Waldorf presenting a paper on Rwanda at the University of Antwerp

Posted on Monday 21 May 2012

Martin Jones is presenting a paper on refugee law at the National University of Singapore.

Posted on Wednesday 2 May 2012

Martin Jones is addressing access to justice for refugees in his closing keynote at the Centre for Refugee Studies

Posted on Tuesday 1 May 2012

CAHR PhD student Indrani Sigamany delivered a capacity building workshop in Jordan in April