Centre for Applied Human Rights
Human rights defenders on the Protective Fellowship Scheme engage with students in class
UN Special Rapporteur on HRDs' World Report on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders (December 2018) was supported by CAHR
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
White Rose Doctoral Training Partnership - York Studentship
Posted on Monday 17 February 2020
The Centre for Applied Human Rights at the University of York and the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds are pleased to offer one PhD studentship (UK / EU tuition fees + stipend at UK research council rates), funded by the White Rose Doctoral Training Partnership ESRC Network Awards, which is available to UK and EU applicants only.
Development Alternatives Research
Posted on Wednesday 22 January 2020
Pushing Back: Supporting Human Rights Defenders and Social Movements in Contexts of Shrinking Civic and Democratic Space.
CAHR newsletter
Read more about what goes on at CAHR with the latest edition of our newsletter, CAHRnews:
CAHRnews Winter 2019 (No 10) (PDF
, 1,474kb)
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 YHRC Indicator report 2019 (PDF
Videos
MA in Applied Human Rights and LLM in International Human Rights Law & Practice students talk about their experiences of studying at CAHR.