News 2014
Friday 19 December 2014
CAHR is hosting an international conference on 12 January 2015 to mark the 10th anniversary of the Responsibility to Protect.
Thursday 27 November 2014
Martin Jones will facilitate a workshop at Taylor's University in Kuala Lumpur on December 1st.
Friday 14 November 2014
Chat to CAHR staff and other students at the University's Postgraduate Virtual Open Days on 26 November.
Thursday 13 November 2014
The White Rose College of the Arts & Humanities (WRoCAH) offers AHRC-funded studentships for PhD candidates commencing their studies at the Universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York in 2015.
Wednesday 15 October 2014
Martin Jones has been invited to give a keynote address on October 22nd in Tunis at the 10th World Conference of the International Association for Refugee Law Judges.
Friday 3 October 2014
Human rights defenders on the CAHR's Protective Fellowship Scheme express solidarity and condolences on the occassion of the burial of Kenyan human rights defender Humphrey Kimani Ndengwa.
Friday 12 September 2014
CAHR Director Professor Paul Gready gave the keynote address at an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) sponsored symposium on Culture, Conflict and Post-Conflict at the British Academy in London, 10-11 September 2014.
Thursday 24 July 2014
CAHR is delighted to have secured a major, two-year research grant (Euro 260,000) from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research programme on Security and Rule of Law in Fragile and Conflict Affected Settings.
Monday 23 June 2014
The Centre for Applied Human Rights offers one scholarship for a student on the MA in Applied Human Rights and one for a student on the LLM in International Human Rights Law and Practice in 2014-15.
Friday 20 June 2014
The York Human Rights City Network, which the Centre for Applied Human Rights is part of, is hiring a Network Coordinator.
Wednesday 18 June 2014
Martin Jones addressed issues surrounding the Syrian refugee crisis in Egypt at the UNHCR's Annual Consultations with NGOs in Geneva.
Monday 16 June 2014
CAHR ran a short-course on Refugee Rights Leadership Training in Geneva from June 13th to 15th.
Tuesday 27 May 2014
Syrian human rights defender and former CAHR fellow does a reading on 21 June.
Monday 5 May 2014
CAHR and Asylum Access have now opened the application process to attend our Refugee Rights Leadership Training from 13th – 15th June in Geneva, prior to UNHCR's Annual Consultations with NGOs.
Tuesday 15 April 2014
The York Human Rights City Network, an innovative city-based human rights initiative, has received continued funding for another three years from the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
Monday 14 April 2014
At the end of March, a group of CAHR MA and LLM students facilitated a training day for North Yorkshire Police on racial equality awareness, under the auspices of the Human Rights City Network.
Wednesday 19 March 2014
Martin Jones is participating in the African Commission study group meeting in Accra, Ghana.
Wednesday 19 March 2014
CAHR former visiting fellow, Sri Lankan human rights defender Ruki Fernando has been released from police custody.
Monday 17 March 2014
CAHR is extremely concerned about yesterday’s arrest and interrogation of Mr. Ruki Fernando, an internationally renowned human rights defender and a previous fellow at CAHR.
Monday 17 March 2014
Visiting human rights defenders performed "Women on the Frontline: Voices of Dissent" during York International Women's Week.
Monday 10 March 2014
CAHR co-convenes an expert roundtable in Geneva on 12 March.
Friday 14 February 2014
CAHR is co-hosting a Human Rights Council side event, Creating a safe and enabling environment for human rights defenders, in Geneva on 11 March 2014.
Friday 7 February 2014
CAHR offers 3-year University Teaching Scholarship for doctoral student conducting research on human rights defenders at risk.
Friday 24 January 2014
17 LLM students and 18 MA students graduated on 24 January 2014.
Friday 17 January 2014
Two CAHR protective fellows have been awarded the Oxfam Novib/PEN International free expression award.
Tuesday 14 January 2014
PhD studentship at the University of York to study the responsibility to protect.