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 research and teaching environment focused around the role of human rights defenders in the modern human rights system.
CAHR and COVID-19
We've been developing five key areas of our research and practice to help tackle the coronavirus crisis.
Human rights defenders
- Arctivist, Covid-19 funding call
- Protective Fellowship Scheme: 100 defenders, 50 countries, 10 years
- New writing fellowship
- Human Rights Defender HUB
- OSF funding as 'global thought leader'
Study with us
Postgraduate courses built around human rights practice
- MA in Applied Human Rights
- LLM International Human Rights Law and Practice
- MPhil/PhD research degrees
- Read about our students fieldwork experience in South Africa, Malaysia and the UK
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
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News
York Human Rights City
Posted on Friday 5 June 2020
The York Human Rights City Network joins with others in our city who have expressed anger and distress at the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota on 25 May 2020. Racism is a de-humanising virus which is embedded in UK society, just as it is in the USA. It is a scourge which undermines the principles of the dignity and equality inherent in all human beings which underpin the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Former CAHR fellow HRD Ruth Mumbi threatened with death in Kenya
Posted on Wednesday 3 June 2020
The Centre for Applied Human Rights is concerned to hear that Kenyan human rights defender (HRD) Ruth Mumbi, CAHR visiting fellow in 2014/15, has been threatened with ‘disappearance’ after taking action against forced evictions in the Kariobangi informal settlement of Nairobi in early May.
CAHR newsletter
Read more about what goes on at CAHR with the latest edition of our newsletter, CAHRnews:
CAHRnews Spring 2020 (No 11) (PDF
Catch up with previous newsletters in the Newsletter Archive.
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South African performing artist Wezile Mgibe discusses the work, 'The Politics of Displacement', that CAHR HRD Hub's Arctivism project is funding.