Centre for Applied Human Rights

‌‌CAHR 10th anniversary booklet

CAHR marks its 10th anniversary with a booklet, In Small Places Close to Home

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Human rights defenders on the Protective Fellowship Scheme engage with students in class

New research initiative on development alternatives

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Masters students work with local NGOs during fieldwork placements in York, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia, and Cape Town South Africa

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Small class sizes enhance the learning environment

Cairo cityscape

GCRF/ESRC research grant investigates the Law of Asylum in the Middle East and Asia

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CAHR is a friendly community of scholars, practitioners and students

Welcome to the Centre for Applied Human Rights, a unique teaching and research environment focused around the role of human rights defenders in the modern human rights system.

Practice-based teaching

  • Postgraduate courses built around human rights practice
  • Fieldwork in South Africa, Malaysia and the UK in our Masters courses
  • MA, LLM and Postgraduate Certificate Programmes
  • MPhil/PhD research degrees

Human Rights Defender Hub

Teaching draws on the international knowledge and experience of human rights defenders hosted at York.

Our Protective Fellowship Scheme makes a unique contribution in enhancing the sustainability of social activism.

Current Funded Research

News

CAHR researchers and students take lead on landmark UN report

Posted on Friday 17 August 2018

IN OCTOBER the UN General Assembly will consider a landmark Global Survey describing the situation of human rights defenders in more than 140 states.

HRD Hub - new working paper published

Posted on Tuesday 15 May 2018

The HRD Hub's latest working paper has been published - ‘Making’ the Territory: The Spatial Politics of Peasant Communities.

CAHR newsletter

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Read more about what goes on at CAHR with the latest edition of our newsletter, CAHRnews:

CAHRnews Spring-Summer 2018 (No 8) (PDF , 9,628kb)

Catch up with previous newsletters in the Newsletter Archive.

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Events

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Learning from HRDs: Political Crisis in Sri Lanka

Human rights activist and former CAHR visiting fellow Ruki Fernando discusses the current political crisis in Sri Lanka, the prospects for rights and reconciliation, and the challenges human rights defenders face.

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Learning from HRDs: Human rights activism in Zimbabwe

Human rights defender Prosper Tiringindi will speak of his work in defense of socio-economic rights in post-Mugabe Zimbabwe.

 

York: Human Rights City

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York was declared the UK's first Human Rights City in April 2017. The network behind 'York: Human Rights City' works for social justice at a local level in York. Read more on recent work in the York Human Rights 2nd Indicator Report 2017 (PDF , 3,340kb)

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Videos

MA in Applied Human Rights and LLM in International Human Rights Law & Practice students talk about their experiences of studying at CAHR.

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