Centre for Applied Human Rights
UN Special Rapporteur on HRDs' new World Report on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders (December 2018) was supported by CAHR
Human rights defenders on the Protective Fellowship Scheme engage with students in class
Masters students work with local NGOs during fieldwork placements in York, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia, and Cape Town South Africa
Small class sizes enhance the learning environment
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 defenders
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
- Development Alternatives (GCRF IAA)
- Navigating Risk, Managing Security of HRDs
- Noma, Human Rights and Global Health (IAA ESRC)
- Refugees and the Arab Middle East: Protection in States Not Party to the Refugee Convention (NRC)
- Wellbeing and Temporary International Relocation Initiatives for HRDs
News
Posted on Wednesday 14 August 2019
Over forty mental health professionals, coordinators of temporary international relocation initiatives, researchers and other human rights advocates from around the world gathered in Barcelona in June to share approaches to supporting human rights defenders with their wellbeing.
Posted on Friday 14 June 2019
CAHR Research Assistant Tallulah Lines joined a panel discussion on resilience and wellbeing of human rights defenders at RightsCon in Tunis.
CAHR newsletter
Read more about what goes on at CAHR with the latest edition of our newsletter, CAHRnews:
CAHRnews Spring 2019 (No 9) (PDF
, 2,430kb)
Catch up with previous newsletters in the Newsletter Archive.
Events
York: Human Rights City
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 3rd Indicator Report (2018) (PDF
Videos
MA in Applied Human Rights and LLM in International Human Rights Law & Practice students talk about their experiences of studying at CAHR.