Champions of Change - the Defenders' stories
"The University of York's Protective Fellowship Scheme offers a visionary approach to protecting and supporting individuals who risk their lives for the protection of human rights. At York, human rights defenders are given a warm welcome into a community of scholars and practitioners. Not only do they benefit from the space to rest and reflect on their work, but their unique contribution to research and teaching puts the University at the cutting-edge of global policy-making on human rights." - James Savage, Individuals at Risk Programme Manager, Amnesty International UK
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
**Scholarship funding for MA in Human Rights and LLM in Human Rights**
Article on transitional justice published by CAHR staff
CAHR staff presenting paper on refugee law at the 9th annual conference of Asian Law Institutes
WUN - Transforming Post-Conflict Societies Conference - 22 May 2012
CAHR staff invited to give closing keynote at Toronto short course on refugee issue
CAHR leads successful AHRC network grant application on Translating Freedom