CAHR welcomes Human Rights Defenders to York.
We welcome you to join talks hosted by the Defenders acros the next few months.
Please see upcoming events for further details.
Posted on Wednesday 20 January 2021
York is also only the eighteenth city in the world to join the network.
Posted on Monday 18 January 2021
Alice Nah has edited the lastest volume in the Routledge Studies in Human Rights series.
Posted on Wednesday 13 January 2021
This award celebrates the life and honours the memory of Sam Pegram (1994 - 2019), an alumnus of the LLM in International Human Rights Law and Practice who died tragically in the Ethiopian Airlines crash in 2019.
Posted on Friday 18 December 2020
Human rights defender (HRD) Johncation Muhindo, CAHR visiting fellow 2018-2019, was recently awarded two funding bids for his organization Creations Forum Afrika to conduct human rights work in Uganda.
Posted on Thursday 19 November 2020
The Centre for Applied Human Rights (CAHR), as part of the York Human Rights City Network (YHRCN), wishes to recruit a Coordinator for the YHRCN’s disability programme. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a dynamic strand of the YHRCN’s work and deliver on the promise of York becoming the UK’s first human rights city.
Posted on Wednesday 18 November 2020
Staff from CAHR will be supporting the Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network (APRRN) in its upcoming training of refugee rights activists in the Asia Pacific region. Martin Jones is one of the coordinators of the Short Course and will be leading sessions on refugee rights, the ethics of advocacy, and recent developments in refugee protection in the region. Alice Nah will be discussing the impact of privilege and intersectionality on refugee advocacy in the region.
Posted on Monday 2 November 2020
As violations of international humanitarian law and human rights in times of armed conflict persist, generating respect for international law in conflict settings is at the top of humanitarian practitioners' agenda and at the heart of legal scholarship. This blog symposium responds to the necessity to reflect on novel avenues of compliance generation and aims to showcase innovative thinking in this field.
Posted on Tuesday 13 October 2020
The Centre for Applied Human Rights expresses its continued concern for Egyptian human rights defender Mohamed El-Baqer, who has spent a year in inhumane conditions in pre-trial detention at maximum security wing 2 of Tora Prison in Cairo, Egypt, where he is placed at high risk in the context of Covid-19.
Posted on Thursday 24 September 2020
We are excited to announce that York has recently signed a new Partnership agreement with Chevening.
Posted on Monday 7 September 2020
On 12 August 2020, CAHR and the Fund for Global Human Rights (FGHR) organised a webinar for human rights funders on the impact of Covid-19 on the work and security of HRDs. Speakers included four human rights defenders (HRDs) from CAHR’s Protective Fellowship Scheme for HRDs at Risk 2019/20 cohort. They came from Brazil, Niger, Nigeria and an Asian country.
Posted on Monday 10 August 2020
Human rights could play a more central role in dealing with the legacy of COVID-19, and future responses should there be further spikes in York.
Posted on Thursday 23 July 2020
Las Iluministas invites feminist artist-activists in Mexico to document their experiences during COVID-19. They will be asked to consider the particular gender-based challenges arising during COVID-19 and to reflect on their experiences as artist-activists in this climate of increased risk for women. Submissions from artist-activists will be curated in an online gallery. At the end of the project, a downloadable colouring book for adults will be created using some of the most striking images from the exhibition, the aim of which is to invite interaction with the art, promote politicised self-care, and reflect on learning from the project.
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.
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.
Posted on Friday 29 May 2020
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought an unprecedented toll on the economies across the globe. Like others, the Gulf states, such as Bahrain, Kuwait, KSA, Oman, Qatar and the UAE are also in strain as businesses and services have been shut down, oil price is plummeting, and tourism has come to a halt. As much as the globe is going to experience an apocalyptic economic downturn, a foreseeable 'migration crisis' is going to expose the long-standing vulnerability of 25 million migrants, stationed in the Gulf labour markets.
Posted on Friday 29 May 2020
Ours is a country that profoundly depends on overseas employment to attain its economic progress. A look at the policy framework will suggest this impression. For instance, the ‘Seventh Five Year Plan (2016-2020)’ has seen overseas employment as an integral component of the development trajectory. Data shows that at least around one-third of the country’s new labour force take overseas employment each year- which has become a ‘safety valve’ for millions of Bangladeshi migrant workers and their families.
Posted on Tuesday 19 May 2020
In a report from Kenya, Gacheke Gachihi asks if the state is fighting Covid-19 or the poor? He writes that since the curfew was enforced across the country the police continue to systematically brutalise and terrorise people living in informal settlements. Introducing a film on state violence and Covid-19 in Kenya, Gacheke argues the poor must demand the right to healthcare, water and livelihood enshrined in the country’s constitution.
Posted on Wednesday 6 May 2020
The Centre for Applied Human Rights at the University of York launched a new Call for Nominations for the Protective Fellowship Scheme for Human Rights Defenders at Risk in February 2010. Due to the global Covid-19 pandemic and the changes it has brought to our operations at the University of York, we are re-opening the call and extending the deadline to 17 June 2020.
Posted on Wednesday 6 May 2020
HUMAN rights matter more than ever during the coronavirus crisis, campaigners say. York Human Rights City Network says attention to human rights is crucial in three areas - protecting vulnerable groups and challenging discrimination, balancing priorities when difficult decisions have to be made and ensuring transparency and openness in government.
Posted on Monday 27 April 2020
Have you applied to study with us at the Centre for Applied Human Rights in the academic year 2020/21 and hold a conditional or unconditional offer?
Posted on Monday 20 April 2020
The Centre for Applied Human Rights (CAHR) is concerned to hear that its former fellow, Mr Ali Idrissa, is currently being criminalised in Niger as a result of his activism against corruption.
Posted on Monday 20 April 2020
CAHR’s Protective Fellowship Scheme for human rights defenders (HRDs) at risk normally runs from September to the end of March. In 2020, the fellowship was cut short due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the impact of which was starting to be felt in the UK in the middle of March. Instead of undertaking a scheduled advocacy and networking visit to London, the HRDs needed to return home on an expedited schedule – in most cases racing to book onto increasingly sold out flights in order to reach home before the borders closed. It was a time that showed how HRDs, even when they know they are returning to risky and outright dangerous situations, want to be working in their communities, particularly at a time when they know they are needed more urgently than ever.
Posted on Friday 17 April 2020
York Human Rights City Network plans to respond to the recently announced invitation to submit evidence to the Joint Committee on Human Rights Inquiry into the impact of the Government’s COVID-19 legislation.
Posted on Thursday 16 April 2020
A group of four CAHR students, Louise Sloan, Tom Beetles, Mir Ali and Rebecca Byard, collaborated with the North Yorkshire Police on a research project aimed at identifying causes of under reporting of hate crime in the Selby district in North Yorkshire.
Posted on Tuesday 14 April 2020
The Centre for Applied Human Rights (CAHR), through a grant from the Open Society Foundations, has set up a fund – Arctivists – to support activists and artists across the world responding to the outbreak of Covid-19 and its implications for human rights defenders, activism, and shrinking civic and political space. Paired activists and artists are able to apply for up to £3,000; it is envisaged that most grants will be for between £1,000 and £2,000.
Posted on Monday 17 February 2020
The Centre for Applied Human Rights at the University of York and the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds are pleased to offer one PhD studentship (UK / EU tuition fees + stipend at UK research council rates), funded by the White Rose Doctoral Training Partnership ESRC Network Awards, which is available to UK and EU applicants only.
Posted on Wednesday 22 January 2020
Pushing Back: Supporting Human Rights Defenders and Social Movements in Contexts of Shrinking Civic and Democratic Space.
Posted on Tuesday 7 January 2020
How do histories, individual and collective, of violence and displacement influence how people respond to appeals for protection from others? how might these histories be woven into understandings of refugee protection? A team of researchers from the Centre for Applied Human Rights (CAHR) and York law school in collaboration with a local partner (The Geutanyoe Foundation) seeks to explore these questions using the novel case study of the thousands of Rohingya who have sought protection in Aceh (indonesia) over the past decade in a British Academy funded two year research project with fieldwork in Aceh, elsewhere in Indonesia, Malaysia, and countries of resettlement.
Posted on Tuesday 7 January 2020
Student video in recognition of 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence and Human Rights Day.
Posted on Tuesday 7 January 2020
The Barcelona Guidelines on Wellbeing and Temporary International Relocation of Human Rights Defenders at Risk officially launched.
Posted on Tuesday 15 October 2019
We will be holding a workshop in York on 4-5 November 2019 on civil society strategies to push back against shrinking space. The workshop will ‘take the long view’ by focusing on 1) empirical, evidence-based studies of civil society resistance and resilience, and 2) historical precedents, lessons and insights of relevance to current situations. Panels will include human rights defenders from Africa,Turkey, Hong Kong and Brazil.
Posted on Tuesday 1 October 2019
CAHR expresses its concern over the arbitrary arrest and enforced disappearance of human rights defender Mohamed El-Baqer in Cairo on 29 September.
Posted on Tuesday 17 September 2019
What does human rights activism mean to you and why should we celebrate it? This art competition is open to everybody, with a deadline of 28 October 2019.
Posted on Friday 13 September 2019
Dr. Ioana Cismas, Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Applied Human Rights and the York Law School has been awarded a large grant by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) to develop the project "Generating Respect for Humanitarian Norms: The Influence of Religious Leaders on Parties to Armed Conflict" (2020-2023).
Posted on Thursday 12 September 2019
The Centre is looking forward in the next few weeks to welcoming a range of activists from developing and Commonwealth countries into both its MA in Applied Human Rights and LLM in International Human Rights Law and Practice.
Posted on Thursday 5 September 2019
The Journal of Human Rights Practice celebrates its 10th anniversary with an issue free to access until the end of 2019.
Posted on Friday 23 August 2019
Dr Ioana Cismas is taking lead on a new international multi-disciplinary research project.
Posted on Monday 19 August 2019
CAHR staff have published on a variety of topics in recent months, ranging from temporary relocation for HRDs to freedom of religion and abortion.
Posted on Wednesday 14 August 2019
Over forty mental health professionals, coordinators of temporary international relocation initiatives, researchers and other human rights advocates from around the world gathered in Barcelona in June to share approaches to supporting human rights defenders with their wellbeing.
Posted on Friday 14 June 2019
CAHR Research Assistant Tallulah Lines joined a panel discussion on resilience and wellbeing of human rights defenders at RightsCon in Tunis.
Posted on Monday 3 June 2019
York: Human Rights City has now published its latest annual human rights indicator report.
Posted on Thursday 23 May 2019
Have you applied to study with us at the Centre for Applied Human Rights in the academic year 2019/20 and hold a conditional or unconditional offer? Extended deadline for applications 7 June 2019.
Posted on Tuesday 12 March 2019
CAHR alumnus 2017/18 Samuel Pegram passed away in the Ethiopian Airlines accident on Sunday 10 March.
Posted on Wednesday 23 January 2019
Have you applied to study with us at the Centre for Applied Human Rights in the academic year 2019/20 and hold a conditional or unconditional offer?
Posted on Tuesday 15 January 2019
Martin Jones chaired and spoke on a panel at a national conference on refugee law in New Delhi (India) this week.
Posted on Thursday 3 January 2019
A research team led by Dr Alice Nah has released two new policy briefs on HRDs and gender and stigmatization.
Posted on Friday 14 December 2018
As part of the Human Rights Placement module, students of the MA in Applied Human Rights and the LLM in International Human Rights Law and Practice have recently completed their fieldwork in Cape Town, Kuala Lumpur and York.
Posted on Friday 14 December 2018
TODAY CAHR students participate in a major women's event taking place in St Helen's Square, York.
Posted on Monday 3 December 2018
Universities play a crucial role in fostering peaceful activism, which is especially important as civic space is shrinking across the globe and human rights defenders (HRDs) continue to face threats and repression. On 28 and 29 November, the Centre for Applied Human Rights (CAHR)and the Pan-African Human Rights Defenders Network (PAHRDN) organised a workshop to explore opportunities for enhanced collaboration between universities and civil society organisations (CSOs) to strengthen civic space and create an enabling environment for HRDs.
Posted on Thursday 8 November 2018
In October 2018, MA in Applied Human Rights 2015/16 alumnus Johnny Rebours took on the challenge of cycling from Boston to New York City in just four days.
Posted on Wednesday 31 October 2018
A three-day World Summit for Human Rights Defenders was held in Paris in October.
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.
Posted on Wednesday 9 May 2018
The conference presented the conclusions of a six month long interdisciplinary workshop.
Posted on Thursday 26 April 2018
The deadline for CAHR Scholarship applications for 2018/19 is Monday 30th April 2018.
Posted on Thursday 19 April 2018
The latest policy brief from the Security of Defenders project is now available.
Posted on Monday 16 April 2018
The HRD Hub's latest working paper has been published - Defenders Across Borders: Congolese HRDs in Uganda's Refugee Regime.
Posted on Friday 19 January 2018
In celebration of our tenth anniversary we have published a booklet telling the story of where we have come in the 10 years since we started in 2007.
Posted on Wednesday 13 December 2017
CAHR offers two scholarships to new postgraduate students starting on the MA in Applied Human Rights and the LLM in International Human Rights Law & Practice in September 2018.
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.
Posted on Friday 28 July 2017
On July 24th and 25th, Martin Jones hosted a second workshop on refugee law in the Middle East and Asia as part of his ESRC / Global Challenges funded project on the Law of Asylum.
Posted on Tuesday 25 July 2017
From May to July this year, CAHR conducted collaborative research with the UN Special Rapporteur Michel Forst for his forthcoming report to the UN General Assembly on defenders working on business and human rights.
Posted on Monday 17 July 2017
On July 13th and 14th, the Human Rights Defender Hub of the Centre for Applied Human Rights hosted a two day research symposium for early career researchers.
Posted on Monday 10 July 2017
Expressions of interest sought from artists, activists and researchers.
Posted on Monday 26 June 2017
Paul Gready and Simon Robins have secured a 6 month ESRC Impact Accelerator Award from August 2017 for a project entitled 'Reparations for sexual violence as part of a Truth Commission process: A collaboration with Tunisia's Truth and Dignity Commission'.
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.
Posted on Tuesday 25 April 2017
On 24 April 2017 the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor of York, Cllr Dave Taylor, signed a declaration making York the UK’s first Human Rights City.
Posted on Tuesday 4 April 2017
CAHR offers two scholarships to new postgraduate students starting on the MA in Applied Human Rights and the LLM in International Human Rights Law & Practice in September 2017.
Posted on Tuesday 28 March 2017
Two expert contributors confirmed for CAHR’s forthcoming online programme Leading and Managing Effective Human Rights Organisations
Posted on Thursday 16 March 2017
The Human Rights Defender Hub at CAHR has started a Policy Brief Series, aimed at highlighting key issues that human rights defenders at risk face as they engage in their practice.
Posted on Monday 23 January 2017
CAHR wishes to appoint a part-time project co-ordinator for its research project "The law of asylum in the Middle East and Asia: Developing legal engagement at the frontiers of the international refugee regime."
Posted on Tuesday 20 December 2016
The Centre for Applied Human Rights has been awarded the University of York's three first grants from the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF).
Posted on Monday 19 December 2016
On 8 December 2016, York Human Rights City Network (YHRCN) launched the first annual Human Rights Indicator Report at King's Manor.
Posted on Friday 9 December 2016
Centre for Applied Human Rights Issues a statement on the judicial harassment by the Egyptian authorities of former visiting fellow Azza Soliman.
Posted on Friday 2 December 2016
The Centre for Applied Human Rights at the University of York seeks to commission 10 artists from Colombia, Mexico, Egypt, Kenya and Indonesia to create artistic responses to research outputs.
Posted on Wednesday 2 November 2016
CAHR and Politics are delighted to have collaborated on a successful AHRC research network application which seeks to explore the ways in which art and creative activism can contribute to efforts to understand and enact development alternatives.
Posted on Monday 17 October 2016
On October 16th, Martin Jones delivered the opening address at a national conference on "national Mechanisms for the Protection of refugees and migrants" organised by the Egyptian Foundation for Refugee Rights (EFRR) in Cairo.
Posted on Tuesday 13 September 2016
Dr Simon Robins has been awareded an ESRC IAA GCRF award to address the issue of disappearance in Nepal.
Posted on Tuesday 2 August 2016
In September 2015 the name and image of Alan Kurdi became an enigma. The three-year old boy, drowned in the Mediterranean and washed ashore, became a heart-wrenching emblem of the devastating effects (forced) migration can have on children in the light of increasingly inhumane border controls and exclusionary migration policies.
Posted on Thursday 21 July 2016
Interested in developing your career in human rights?
Posted on Monday 20 June 2016
Deadly shipwrecks and the bodies of migrants have become the most iconic images of the contemporary refugee crisis at the EU’s periphery, with more than 6,600 known to have died crossing the Mediterranean in the last 18 months.
Posted on Monday 13 June 2016
Martin Jones will be chairing an expert consultation on a new draft refugee law for Egypt.
Posted on Friday 10 June 2016
CAHR has been conducting critical research around transitional justice processes in Nepal and Tunisia, seeking to advance justice processes after conflict and political violence. Two reports have recently been published.
Posted on Friday 29 April 2016
Gacheke Gachihi visited Dublin to highlight state intimidation and systemic corruption
Posted on Wednesday 20 April 2016
A group of Dutch parliamentarians, from a range of political parties, will visit York on Thursday 12 May.
Posted on Friday 15 April 2016
Juliana Mensah has received a grant from the ESRC Impact Accelerator Account: Responsive Mode Scheme for a project entitled Occupied Testimonies.
Posted on Thursday 14 April 2016
On 18-19 April CAHR will host a second international workshop on Democracies in Transition: Austerity and Activism in Southern Europe.
Posted on Friday 1 April 2016
CAHR offers one scholarship for a student on the MA in Applied Human Rights and one for a student on the LLM in International Human Rights Law and Practice in 2016-17.
Posted on Friday 26 February 2016
Alice Nah, Lecturer at CAHR, delivered the keynote address at the Workshop on ‘South-South Migration, Refugees and Diasporic Communities’ organised by the National University of Singapore from 16-17 February 2016.
Posted on Friday 26 February 2016
On 13-14 January 2016 the York Human Rights City Network (YNRCN) hosted a ground-breaking event on human rights cities, 'The Rise of Human Rights Cities: Why Cities? Why Now?'
Posted on Tuesday 9 February 2016
The YGRS wishes to remind departments about the Marshall Partnership Scholarship Scheme. These prestigious scholarships, awarded to citizens of the United States of America, are for graduate study in any subject at either Masters or Doctoral level at specific UK universities, including the University of York.
Posted on Friday 5 February 2016
This research will be part of an exciting partnership between the Centre for Applied Human Rights (CAHR) and ActionAid focusing on rights-based development alternatives. A successful White Rose DTC ESRC Collaborative Studentship application means that CAHR is offering a full home/EU PhD scholarship in this field.
Posted on Monday 30 November 2015
CAHR's PhD student Lena Opfermann has published on migrant children in South Africa in the "Special Edition of the Mapping Transnationalism Section: Transnational Social Work with Migrants" in the Transnational Social Review.
Posted on Thursday 12 November 2015
Alice Nah (CAHR) together with James Savage (AIUK), Danna Ingleton (AIIS) and Karen Bennett (London Metropolitan University) write about the development of the human rights defender protection regime in a New Tactics blog.
Posted on Wednesday 28 October 2015
CAHR together with Amnesty International and the Human Rights and Social Justice Research Institute (London Metropolitan University) release a special issue on the security and protection of human rights defenders in the International Journal of Human Rights.
Posted on Thursday 22 October 2015
CAHR together with Al-Kawakibi Democracy Transition Center and Impunity Watch have launched their first report on the Transitional Justice Barometer project.
Posted on Tuesday 15 September 2015
Two human rights experts from the University of York have been awarded funding from the Economic and Social Research Council’s (ESRC) Urgency Call for proposals related to the Mediterranean migration crisis.
Posted on Friday 28 August 2015
CAHR wishes to appoint a Research Associate and a Research Administrator, funded by the Open Society Foundation, to support its new Human Rights Defender Hub.
Posted on Tuesday 25 August 2015
A University of York pump prime grant for a research project entitled 'Democracies in Transition: Austerity and Activism in Southern Europe' has been granted to CAHR's Director Paul Gready and colleagues from four University departments.
Posted on Tuesday 18 August 2015
CAHR Research Fellow Dr Simon Robins has secured an ESRC Urgent Research Grant related to the Mediterranean migration crisis for over £150,000. The research involves various partners and will take place over a year from September 2015. The research project is entitled 'Missing Migrants and Deaths at the EU’s Mediterranean Border: Humanitarian Needs and State Obligations'.
Posted on Monday 20 July 2015
Sherif Azer, PhD candidate at Centre for Applied Human Rights and the York Law School, has been awarded the prestigious Civil Society Scholar Award (CSSA) by Open Society Foundations.
Posted on Thursday 11 June 2015
The Centre for Applied Human Rights offers one scholarship for a student on the MA in Applied Human Rights and one for a student on the LLM in International Human Rights Law and Practice in 2015-16.
Posted on Friday 29 May 2015
Lena Opfermann presents her research findings at South African universities.
Posted on Tuesday 19 May 2015
CAHR staff have been interviewed by the refugee crisis in the Mediterranean and in Southeast Asia by BBC Radio York and BBC One Breakfast respectively.
Posted on Friday 8 May 2015
On Tuesday the 5th May CAHR hosted a one-day workshop on Risk and Protection supported by a grant from the Open Society Foundations Human Rights Initiative.
Posted on Thursday 16 April 2015
Matthew Evans, who did both his MA and PhD at the Centre for Applied Human Rights, recently published an article based on his doctoral work in the Journal of Human Rights.
Posted on Monday 30 March 2015
Students on CAHR's MA and LLM programmes organised the York Human Rights Film Festival that runs under the auspices of the York Human Rights City Network.
Posted on Friday 30 January 2015
Take the opportunity to meet CAHR academics at the University's virtual open days in February.
Posted on Wednesday 21 January 2015
Tunisian media reports on CAHR research project launch in Tunis.
Posted on Friday 19 December 2014
CAHR is hosting an international conference on 12 January 2015 to mark the 10th anniversary of the Responsibility to Protect.
Posted on Thursday 27 November 2014
Martin Jones will facilitate a workshop at Taylor's University in Kuala Lumpur on December 1st.
Posted on Friday 14 November 2014
Chat to CAHR staff and other students at the University's Postgraduate Virtual Open Days on 26 November.
Posted on Thursday 13 November 2014
The White Rose College of the Arts & Humanities (WRoCAH) offers AHRC-funded studentships for PhD candidates commencing their studies at the Universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York in 2015.
Posted on Wednesday 15 October 2014
Martin Jones has been invited to give a keynote address on October 22nd in Tunis at the 10th World Conference of the International Association for Refugee Law Judges.
Posted on Friday 3 October 2014
Human rights defenders on the CAHR's Protective Fellowship Scheme express solidarity and condolences on the occassion of the burial of Kenyan human rights defender Humphrey Kimani Ndengwa.
Posted on Friday 12 September 2014
CAHR Director Professor Paul Gready gave the keynote address at an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) sponsored symposium on Culture, Conflict and Post-Conflict at the British Academy in London, 10-11 September 2014.
Posted on Thursday 24 July 2014
CAHR is delighted to have secured a major, two-year research grant (Euro 260,000) from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research programme on Security and Rule of Law in Fragile and Conflict Affected Settings.
Posted on Monday 23 June 2014
The Centre for Applied Human Rights offers one scholarship for a student on the MA in Applied Human Rights and one for a student on the LLM in International Human Rights Law and Practice in 2014-15.
Posted on Friday 20 June 2014
The York Human Rights City Network, which the Centre for Applied Human Rights is part of, is hiring a Network Coordinator.
Posted on Wednesday 18 June 2014
Martin Jones addressed issues surrounding the Syrian refugee crisis in Egypt at the UNHCR's Annual Consultations with NGOs in Geneva.
Posted on Monday 16 June 2014
CAHR ran a short-course on Refugee Rights Leadership Training in Geneva from June 13th to 15th.
Posted on Tuesday 27 May 2014
Syrian human rights defender and former CAHR fellow does a reading on 21 June.
Posted on Monday 5 May 2014
CAHR and Asylum Access have now opened the application process to attend our Refugee Rights Leadership Training from 13th – 15th June in Geneva, prior to UNHCR's Annual Consultations with NGOs.
Posted on Tuesday 15 April 2014
The York Human Rights City Network, an innovative city-based human rights initiative, has received continued funding for another three years from the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
Posted on Monday 14 April 2014
At the end of March, a group of CAHR MA and LLM students facilitated a training day for North Yorkshire Police on racial equality awareness, under the auspices of the Human Rights City Network.
Posted on Wednesday 19 March 2014
Martin Jones is participating in the African Commission study group meeting in Accra, Ghana.
Posted on Wednesday 19 March 2014
CAHR former visiting fellow, Sri Lankan human rights defender Ruki Fernando has been released from police custody.
Posted on Monday 17 March 2014
CAHR is extremely concerned about yesterday’s arrest and interrogation of Mr. Ruki Fernando, an internationally renowned human rights defender and a previous fellow at CAHR.
Posted on Monday 17 March 2014
Visiting human rights defenders performed "Women on the Frontline: Voices of Dissent" during York International Women's Week.
Posted on Monday 10 March 2014
CAHR co-convenes an expert roundtable in Geneva on 12 March.
Posted on Friday 14 February 2014
CAHR is co-hosting a Human Rights Council side event, Creating a safe and enabling environment for human rights defenders, in Geneva on 11 March 2014.
Posted on Friday 7 February 2014
CAHR offers 3-year University Teaching Scholarship for doctoral student conducting research on human rights defenders at risk.
Posted on Friday 24 January 2014
17 LLM students and 18 MA students graduated on 24 January 2014.
Posted on Friday 17 January 2014
Two CAHR protective fellows have been awarded the Oxfam Novib/PEN International free expression award.
Posted on Tuesday 14 January 2014
PhD studentship at the University of York to study the responsibility to protect.
Posted on Wednesday 18 December 2013
CAHR MA and LLM students have recently completed their fieldwork in Malaysia, South Africa and York.
Posted on Wednesday 18 December 2013
Scholarships will fund PhDs at the Universities of Leeds, Sheffield, and York to study the Responsibility to Protect.
Posted on Friday 6 December 2013
Journal of Human Rights Practice celebrates the 15th Anniversary of the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders with a Special Issue.
Posted on Tuesday 12 November 2013
A project aimed at helping residents of a township in Mozambique to 'future proof' their community against climate change, in which the University of York played a key role, has been recognised by the United Nations.
Posted on Monday 11 November 2013
Lars Waldorf is participating in a new transitional justice research project.
Posted on Monday 21 October 2013
Lars Waldorf is an invited speaker at a "Practitioner's Dialogue on Transitional Justice and Corruption".
Posted on Friday 18 October 2013
The Centre for Applied Human Rights, University of York (UK), is offering two PhD scholarships as part of a 3-year study funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), entitled Transformative Justice in Egypt and Tunisia.
Posted on Tuesday 15 October 2013
The Centre for Applied Human Rights is now accepting applications for the online Post Graduate Certificate in Defending Human Rights, commencing in January 2014.
Posted on Friday 4 October 2013
Congratulations to Professor Paul Gready on the successful three year ESRC research grant on Transformative Justice in Tunisia and Egypt.
Posted on Monday 9 September 2013
Martin Jones is an invited speaker at a regional workshop providing training to lawyers and paralegals on international refugee law and refugee legal aid.
Posted on Wednesday 4 September 2013
Lars Waldorf is an invited speaker at an Essex Transitional Justice Network workshop.
Posted on Friday 16 August 2013
Article questions the UN’s rights-based approach to disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration (DDR).
Posted on Wednesday 31 July 2013
CAHR and The International Journal of Human Rights invite articles for a 2014 Special Issue on "Legal Empowerment in Transitions".
Posted on Monday 15 July 2013
On 9-10 July 2013 CAHR organised a workshop titled "Cities as Sanctuary: Improving protection for human rights defenders and refugees in Europe".
Posted on Monday 15 July 2013
The workshop in York was the final event linked to an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHCR) network grant on the theme of 'translating freedom', which funded workshops in Rwanda, South Africa, and Egypt during 2012.
Posted on Monday 24 June 2013
The workshop is the final event linked to an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHCR) network grant on the theme of 'translating freedom', which funded workshops in Rwanda, South Africa, and Egypt during 2012.
Posted on Wednesday 19 June 2013
CAHR's Leverhulme Artist in Residence is collecting testimonies of freedom - read how you can participate.
Posted on Tuesday 18 June 2013
CAHR hosts a workshop that will consider how legal empowerment might complement transitional justice and peace-building as well as benefit marginalized groups left out of transitions.
Posted on Wednesday 29 May 2013
The Centre for Applied Human Rights has moved offices and is now based in York Science Park.
Posted on Monday 22 April 2013
The Centre for Applied Human Rights is launching an online distance learning Postgraduate Certificate in Defending Human Rights in October 2013.
Posted on Wednesday 6 March 2013
CAHR is offering one scholarship for the MA or the LLM in 2013-14.
Posted on Tuesday 5 March 2013
Current MA and LLM students recount their experiences of studying human rights at CAHR in week-long diaries.
Posted on Monday 4 March 2013
The Protective Fellowship Scheme is featured in the Spring issue of the University of York Magazine.
Posted on Monday 4 March 2013
Lars Waldorf talks about Rwanda's lack of media freedom in Washington, DC on 18 April 2013.
Posted on Friday 1 March 2013
Lars Waldorf conducts a research visit to the University of Bergen from 18-23 March 2013.
Posted on Monday 11 February 2013
Natasha Khan, a CAHR PhD student from Fiji, is coordinating the new Diploma in Leadership, Governance and Human Rights at the University of the South Pacific in Fiji.
Posted on Friday 8 February 2013
Lars Waldorf has become an editor of The International Journal of Human Rights.
Posted on Thursday 7 February 2013
Juliana Mensah has recently joined the Centre as the Leverhulme Trust artist in residence. She will be hosted by the Centre throughout 2013 and will deliver a number of creative initiatives.
Posted on Monday 4 February 2013
43 postgraduate students graduated from CAHR in ceremonies held at the University of York on 25-26 January 2013.
Posted on Thursday 31 January 2013
Lineo Tsikoane from Lesotho will join the competitive ISC 2013 summer programme taking place in New York and Massachusets.
Posted on Wednesday 30 January 2013
CAHR plays a role in the University of York’s Holocaust Memorial Day commemoration on 30 January 2013.
Posted on Wednesday 23 January 2013
Lars Waldorf talks about transitional justice at Durham Law School on 24 January 2013.
Posted on Friday 11 January 2013
The Protective Fellowship Scheme for Human Rights Defenders at Risk that has been run by the Centre since 2008 has so far this academic year welcomed ten human rights defenders as visiting fellows.
Posted on Thursday 20 December 2012
Students in the Centre's MA and LLM programmes have returned from field trips to South Africa and Malaysia.
Posted on Tuesday 18 December 2012
The Centre talked about human rights with staff from the Anne Frank Trust UK.
Posted on Monday 17 December 2012
"Refugees in Egypt: What Revolution? Whose Revolution?"
Posted on Thursday 22 November 2012
Lars Waldorf talks about humanitarian intervention and international criminal justice in Leeds on 23 November 2012.
Posted on Monday 12 November 2012
"HRDs and the Law" is a new theme at the SLSA annual conference in March 2013.
Posted on Thursday 8 November 2012
The Journal of Human Rights Practice has released a collection of four reviews on the Kony 2012 online video that campaigned for the arrest of Joseph Kony, alleged Commander-in-Chief of the Lord’s Resistance Army.
Posted on Monday 5 November 2012
Lars Waldorf talks about transitional justice at the Overseas Development Institute in London on 6-7 November.
Posted on Wednesday 24 October 2012
Martin Jones, Lecturer in International Human Rights Law at CAHR, will be delivering a workshop on refugee law, policy and practice in Taiwan as part of a regional conference on refugee protection in East Asia.
Posted on Thursday 18 October 2012
The Somaliland-based NGO Talowadag, whose Director Guleid Osman is a former CAHR Protective Fellow, has secured a 9-month project from the UNDP.
Posted on Monday 15 October 2012
CAHR is delighted to welcome almost 40 students onto its two postgraduate courses for 2012-13.
Posted on Tuesday 9 October 2012
CAHR is happy to announce that the new online distance learning course "Working Safely: Managing Risk & Strengthening Protection" has been launched.
Posted on Monday 8 October 2012
The Journal of Human Rights Practice hosts a special issue on the protection of human rights defenders
Posted on Monday 24 September 2012
Dr Jonathan Ensor together with other researchers has published a paper entitled "Understanding Context in Learning-centred Approaches to Climate Change Communication" in the September issue of the IDS Bulletin.
Posted on Monday 3 September 2012
Lars Waldorf is giving a presentation on transitional justice and socio-economic wrongs at the University of Essex on 8-9 September.
Posted on Wednesday 1 August 2012
Government and Civil Society Cooperation to Protect Refugee Rights and Development, Seoul.
Posted on Wednesday 1 August 2012
CAHR Defenders in the local press.
Posted on Wednesday 1 August 2012
CAHR will host ten human rights defenders from around the world.
Posted on Wednesday 1 August 2012
Centre takes lead in pilot project on York as a Human Rights City.
Posted on Wednesday 1 August 2012
Article on transitional justice published by CAHR staff.
Posted on Monday 23 July 2012
Alice Nah participated in a Roundtable on Temporary Protection organised by the UNHCR in San Remo
Posted on Tuesday 19 June 2012
Martin Jones is participating in a panel session on the provision of legal services to refugees and will chair a round-table workshop of Middle Eastern refugee organisations
Posted on Monday 18 June 2012
Lars Waldorf presenting a paper on Rwanda at the University of Antwerp
Posted on Monday 21 May 2012
Martin Jones is presenting a paper on refugee law at the National University of Singapore.
Posted on Wednesday 2 May 2012
Martin Jones is addressing access to justice for refugees in his closing keynote at the Centre for Refugee Studies
Posted on Tuesday 1 May 2012
CAHR PhD student Indrani Sigamany delivered a capacity building workshop in Jordan in April
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