Centre for Applied Human Rights
The Centre for Applied Human Rights draws on the University of York's rich tradition of engaged scholarship in development, post-war reconstruction, public policy, public health, disability rights, gender and women's rights, environmental issues and refugee law. The Centre is both genuinely interdisciplinary and committed to practice. Its core activities are as follows:
- hosting human rights defenders at risk, who complete training and educational programmes and contribute to the activities of the Centre. A focus on human rights defending and defenders shapes all the Centre’s work
- the MA in Applied Human Rights was launched in October 2008
- the LLM in International Human Rights Law and Practice started in October 2010
- research strands generate collaborations across disciplines and between academics and practitioners in the following fields: human rights defenders; human rights and development; transitional justice; health and human rights; and refugee law. PhD applications are invited in these and other related fields.
- the Journal of Human Rights Practice (Oxford University Press) is based at the Centre.
News
Holocaust Memorial Day Events - January 2012
Maggie Murphy: 'Cracking the UN Shell' - Monday 6 February
John Nassari's talk on 'Representing Palestinian Refugee Lives' CANCELLED TO BE RESCHEDULED
Human Rights Lecture Series - Spring 2012
Learning from human rights defenders - Spring 2012
CAHR leads successful AHRC network grant application on Translating Freedom
MA alumni publishes an article on corrective rape in South Africa based on his dissertation