Centre for Applied Human Rights
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
GCRF/ESRC research grant investigates the Law of Asylum in the Middle East and Asia
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.
News
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.
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
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.
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 2nd Indicator Report 2017 (PDF
Videos
MA in Applied Human Rights and LLM in International Human Rights Law & Practice students talk about their experiences of studying at CAHR.