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 Wednesday 23 August 2017
Two of CAHR's former visiting human rights defenders have been nominated for the Dutch government's prestigious Human Rights Tulip award.
Posted on Thursday 3 August 2017
CAHR PhD student Ruth Kelly discusses the research partnership between ActionAid and CAHR.
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.