The Urgent Action Sister Funds, Centre for Applied Human Rights, and UNESCO HRD Hub have just launched new research examining funding models in an era of permacrisis.

A new report – the tenth annual indicator report on human rights in the city of York – highlights persistent inequalities in the enjoyment of socio-economic rights among residents, alongside mounting challenges to social cohesion in the city.

We, the undersigned organisations, express deep concern over the continued arbitrary detention of the Saudi Wikipedian Osama Khalid, whose 14-year prison sentence was recently upheld. We call for his immediate release, along with all others arbitrarily detained in the kingdom for peacefully exercising their fundamental freedoms.

The Centre for Applied Human Rights have released a statement of support for the Ms. Nolasco and the Talaingod 13.

A new interim report by Dr Nazila Ghanea, the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief has cited research undertaken through a collaborative PhD award.

This statement was written on behalf of the York Human Rights City Network (YHRCN). The Network is a civil society partnership, hosted jointly by York CVS (Centre for Voluntary Service) and  the Centre for Applied Human Rights (CAHR) at the University of York.

The work of two of our students, Kate May and Helen Clifton, has been published, tackling urgent issues from the systematic destruction of education in Gaza, to the structural causes of homelessness for disabled people.

The Generating Respect Hub launched a new project - Older Persons and Armed Conflict (OPRAC) - which explores the equality and human rights implications of older persons' experiences of armed conflict.