The Sam Pegram Human Rights Placement Award celebrates the life and honours the memory of Sam Pegram, our LLM in International Human Rights Law and Practice alumnus, who died tragically in the 2019 Ethiopian Airlines crash.

Have you applied to study with us at the Centre for Applied Human Rights in the academic year 2021/22 and hold a conditional or unconditional offer?

Statement on the issue of Access to York City Centre for People with Disabilities, particularly Blue Badge Holders.

Today, on the occasion of lawyer Mohamed El-Baqer’s 41st birthday, we, the undersigned organizations, urge the Egyptian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release him and strike his name from the ‘’terrorist list.’’

The University of York has named its new college after the Ugandan human rights defender and gay rights activist, David Kato.

The Centre for Applied Human Rights is concerned to hear that Zimbabwean human rights defender and CAHR visiting fellow in 2018/9, Prosper Tiringindi, was arrested on 25 March 2021 and again on 24 April 2021 in Masvingo, Zimbabwe.

The May 2021 policy brief highlights advantages of human rights in Council policies.

MA student Amy Darch discusses Human Rights Now’s ‘Women Human Rights Defenders in Asia: Fighting for Freedom and Democracy’ event in March 2021.