Centre for Applied Human Rights
The CAHR is a friendly community of scholars, practitioners and students
Masters students work with local NGOs during overseas fieldwork placements in York, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia, and Cape Town South Africa
Small class sizes enhance the learning environment
Major research grant to investigate Transformative Justice in Tunisia and Egypt (PDF 
, 80kb) following the Arab spring
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
- Distance learning and short course options available
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.
News
Posted on Tuesday 13 June 2017
CAHR MA student, Venezuelan Fulbright scholar Kenther Ramos will talk about political activism today at YPFP Brussels on 19 June.
Posted on Friday 28 April 2017
York Law School and the Centre for Applied Human Rights (CAHR) are seeking to appoint an outstanding legal scholar to a Lectureship/Senior Lectureship in Human Rights Law.
CAHR newsletter
Read more about activities at CAHR in the spring 2017 edition of CAHRnews no:6 (PDF
and 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 Indicator Baseline Report (2016) (PDF
Videos
MA in Applied Human Rights and LLM in International Human Rights Law & Practice students talk about their experiences of studying at CAHR.