An activist centre situated in a university for public good.
The Centre for Applied Human Rights (CAHR) places people, notably human rights defenders, at the core of our work.
Our research, knowledge exchange, teaching, protective and advocacy activities are anchored in real-world human rights and humanitarian challenges and opportunities.
As such, we think politically and use socio-legal, interdisciplinary, and participatory methodologies to protect human rights and activism.
100 defenders, 50 countries, 15 years - We are the first centre to involve frontline human rights defenders in every aspect of our work, through protective fellowships, teaching and research, under the umbrella of the Human Rights Defenders Hub.
Visiting human rights defenders form the core of our work in terms of providing training for defenders, conducting research and incorporating the visiting defenders as an integral part of the MA and LLM programmes.
We, the undersigned organisations, express grave concern regarding the ongoing arbitrary detention of lawyer and human rights defender Waleed Abu al-Khair since April 15, 2014.
The Centre for Applied Human Rights (CAHR) is pleased to announce one scholarship for the 2025/26 academic year for one student to study on the MA in Applied Human Rights.
A new report documents the impact of the recent cost-of-living crisis and over a decade of austerity measures on the lives and rights of York residents.
