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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.

Egyptian human rights defender Mohamed El-Baqer spends one year in pre-trial detention

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.

Chevening Masters funding opportunity for Postgraduate taught overseas applicants to CAHR

Posted on Thursday 24 September 2020

We are excited to announce that York has recently signed a new Partnership agreement with Chevening.

CAHR and FGHR webinar on human rights defender security, protection and civic space in the time of COVID-19

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.

YHRC network - COVID-19 Response to the Joint Committee on Human Rights Inquiry

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.

Las Iluministas - Alicia Salgado & Tallulah Lines, Mexico

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.

York Human Rights City

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.

Former CAHR fellow HRD Ruth Mumbi threatened with death in Kenya

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.

Forced repatriation of migrant workers amid Covid-19

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.

Safeguarding Rights and Wellbeing of Migrant Workers

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.

Systematic Police Brutality and Killings: an update from Kenya

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.

CAHR Protective Fellowship Scheme call for nominations re-opened: Deadline 17 June

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.

Campaigners issue human rights plea for York during coronavirus pandemic

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.

CAHR offers two scholarships for 2020/21

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?

Criminalisation of CAHR Human Rights Defender Ali Idrissa

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.

How to lobby your government to re-open the border and let you home during Covid-19

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.

York Human Rights City - COVID-19

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.

Equality for Everyone

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.

Art + Activism against repression during the COVID-19 crisis

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.

White Rose Doctoral Training Partnership - York Studentship

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.

Development Alternatives Research

Posted on Wednesday 22 January 2020

Pushing Back: Supporting Human Rights Defenders and Social Movements in Contexts of Shrinking Civic and Democratic Space.

The Verandah of Protection: violence, history and the protection of Rohingya refugees in Aceh and beyond

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.

Student video in recognition of 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence and Human Rights Day

Posted on Tuesday 7 January 2020

Student video in recognition of 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence and Human Rights Day.

The Barcelona Guidelines on Wellbeing

Posted on Tuesday 7 January 2020

The Barcelona Guidelines on Wellbeing and Temporary International Relocation of Human Rights Defenders at Risk officially launched.

Taking the Long View: Civil Society Resistance and Resilience

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.

Human rights defender Mohamed El-Baqer arbitrarily arrested in Egypt

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.

Inspiring human rights activism art competition launches

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.

Prestigious ESRC grant for innovative research on religious leaders & humanitarian norms

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).

CAHR welcomes Chevening and Commonwealth Scholarship Recipients

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.

Journal of Human Rights Practice 10th anniversary issue out now

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.

New CAHR research project on the neglected tropical disease noma

Posted on Friday 23 August 2019

Dr Ioana Cismas is taking lead on a new international multi-disciplinary research project.

CAHR staff publish on a range of human rights topics in 2018-19

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.

International retreat held to develop ways to support human rights defenders with wellbeing

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.

CAHR staff presents at RightsCon

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.

York: Human Rights City publishes third indicator report

Posted on Monday 3 June 2019

York: Human Rights City has now published its latest annual human rights indicator report.

Extended deadline for CAHR 2019/20 postgraduate scholarships

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.

CAHR pays tribute to alumnus Samuel Pegram

Posted on Tuesday 12 March 2019

CAHR alumnus 2017/18 Samuel Pegram passed away in the Ethiopian Airlines accident on Sunday 10 March.

CAHR offers two scholarships for 2019/20

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?

CAHR hosts conference on refugee protection in Delhi

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.

CAHR academics release two policy briefs on HRDs

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.

Our students on human rights placements in Cape Town, Kuala Lumpur and York

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.

CAHR students featured in The Press news on major women's event in 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.

How universities can strengthen civic space: Workshop insights from Cape Town

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.

CAHR alumnus fundraises for Cycling4Gaza

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.

CAHR staff attend UN World Summit for HRDs in Paris

Posted on Wednesday 31 October 2018

A three-day World Summit for Human Rights Defenders was held in Paris in October.

CAHR researchers and students take lead on landmark UN report

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.

HRD Hub - new working paper published

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.

Dr Ioana Cismas chairs public event on noma at Geneva Health Forum

Posted on Wednesday 9 May 2018

The conference presented the conclusions of a six month long interdisciplinary workshop.

CAHR Scholarships 2018/19

Posted on Thursday 26 April 2018

The deadline for CAHR Scholarship applications for 2018/19 is Monday 30th April 2018.

Security of Defenders - new policy brief

Posted on Thursday 19 April 2018

The latest policy brief from the Security of Defenders project is now available.

HRD Hub - new working paper published

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.

CAHR marks its 10-year anniversary with a celebratory booklet

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.

CAHR offers two scholarships for Master's students in 2018/19

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.

CAHR fellows alumni nominated for Dutch Human Rights Tulip

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.

Emerging research at CAHR on art, creative activism and development alternatives

Posted on Thursday 3 August 2017

CAHR PhD student Ruth Kelly discusses the research partnership between ActionAid and CAHR.

Milestone workshop on refugee law in the Middle East and Asia

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.

CAHR continues research collaboration with UN Special Rapporteur on HRDs

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.

Symposium to discuss cutting edge research on human rights defenders

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.

The Arts and Human Rights Research Workshop

Posted on Monday 10 July 2017

Expressions of interest sought from artists, activists and researchers.

CAHR staff secure ESRC Impact Accelerator Award for research in Tunisia

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'.

CAHR MA student talks about political activism today at YPFP Brussels

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.

CAHR & YLS are recruiting a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Human Rights Law

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.

York is declared the UK's first human rights city

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.

CAHR offers scholarships to new students in 2017-18

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.

Expert contributors for online course

Posted on Tuesday 28 March 2017

Two expert contributors confirmed for CAHR’s forthcoming online programme Leading and Managing Effective Human Rights Organisations

New Release: Policy Brief on 'Wellbeing, Risk, and Human Rights Practice'

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.

Research project co-ordinator vacancy at CAHR

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."

CAHR awarded York's three first GCRF grants

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).

York Human Rights Indicator Baseline Report launched

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.

Statement on the Judicial Harassment of Azza Soliman, WHRD and human rights lawyer

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.

Looking for Artists from Colombia, Mexico, Egypt, Kenya and Indonesia

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.

Using the arts to explore creative activism and development alternatives

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.

Developing national mechanisms for the protection of refugees and migrants in Egypt

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.

CAHR resarcher Dr Simon Robins is awarded an ESRC IAA GCRF award

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.

Overseas Fieldwork Reports "Just show them that we have feelings" – Reflections on the representation of migrant children's stories

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.

Defending Human Rights online distance learning course

Posted on Thursday 21 July 2016

Interested in developing your career in human rights?

Missing Migrants

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.

Refugee Law for Egypt

Posted on Monday 13 June 2016

Martin Jones will be chairing an expert consultation on a new draft refugee law for Egypt.

CAHR’s Transitional Justice Research: Updates from Tunisia and Nepal

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.

Human rights work being criminalised in Kenya, says activist

Posted on Friday 29 April 2016

Gacheke Gachihi visited Dublin to highlight state intimidation and systemic corruption

Dutch parliamentarians to visit CAHR

Posted on Wednesday 20 April 2016

A group of Dutch parliamentarians, from a range of political parties, will visit York on Thursday 12 May.

Occupied Testimony

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.

Democracies in Transition

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.

CAHR postgraduate scholarships 2016-17 Application deadline 11th of April 2016

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.

Keynote address at workshop on forced migration in Asia in Singapore

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.

York Human Rights City Network (YNRCN)

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?'

Marshall Partnership Scholarship Scheme

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.

PhD Scholarship: Rights-based Alternatives in International Development

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.

CAHR PhD student publishes in Transnational Social Review

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.

CAHR staff write on HRD protection in New Tactics

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.

New special issue on the security and protection of HRDs released

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.

Victim participation in Tunisia's transitional justice process - report published

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.

Mediterranean migrant crisis: York academics awarded funding for urgent projects

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.

Two new posts open at CAHR HRD Hub

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.

Research priming grant for new CAHR led project

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.

CAHR Research Fellow secures ESRC research grant for Missing Migrants project

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'.

CAHR PhD candidate receives prestigious award

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.

CAHR offers two scholarships to MA and LLM students in 2015/16

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.

Presentations and scholarship award for CAHR PhD student

Posted on Friday 29 May 2015

Lena Opfermann presents her research findings at South African universities.

CAHR staff interviewed by BBC on refugee crisis

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.

Protecting Human Rights Defenders: Learning across Development, Humanitarianism and Human Rights

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.

Former CAHR Doctoral Student Publishes Journal Article

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.

CAHR students organise successful York Human Rights Film Festival

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.

Meet CAHR staff at the University's virtual open days in February

Posted on Friday 30 January 2015

Take the opportunity to meet CAHR academics at the University's virtual open days in February.

Transitional Justice Barometer project launched in Tunisia

Posted on Wednesday 21 January 2015

Tunisian media reports on CAHR research project launch in Tunis.

What Responsibility to Rebuild? Conference on RtoP at CAHR

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.

CAHR to facilitate discussion on clinical legal education on refugee law in Malaysia

Posted on Thursday 27 November 2014

Martin Jones will facilitate a workshop at Taylor's University in Kuala Lumpur on December 1st.

Meet CAHR staff at the University's virtual open days

Posted on Friday 14 November 2014

Chat to CAHR staff and other students at the University's Postgraduate Virtual Open Days on 26 November.

WRoCAH studentships available for PhD studies starting in 2015

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.

CAHR staff to give keynote address at Refugee Law Judges Conference

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.

Solidarity and condolences for Kenyan HRD

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.

CAHR Director gives keynote address at AHRC symposium

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.

CAHR secures major research grant to support participatory transitional justice process in Tunisia

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.

CAHR offers two scholarships to MA and LLM students in 2014/15

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.

York Human Rights City Network Coordinator vacancy open at CAHR

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.

CAHR staff speaks on Syrian refugee crisis at UN

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.

CAHR trains refugee legal aid leaders

Posted on Monday 16 June 2014

CAHR ran a short-course on Refugee Rights Leadership Training in Geneva from June 13th to 15th.

CAHR former fellow performs during Manchester Refugee Week

Posted on Tuesday 27 May 2014

Syrian human rights defender and former CAHR fellow does a reading on 21 June.

CAHR together with Asylum Access run Refugee Rights Leadership Training in Geneva

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.

Continued funding for York Human Rights City Network

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.

CAHR students facilitate police training

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.

CAHR staff participate in African Union meeting on HRDs

Posted on Wednesday 19 March 2014

Martin Jones is participating in the African Commission study group meeting in Accra, Ghana.

CAHR former fellow Ruki Fernando released

Posted on Wednesday 19 March 2014

CAHR former visiting fellow, Sri Lankan human rights defender Ruki Fernando has been released from police custody.

Deep concern at the arrest of human rights defender, Mr Ruki Fernando

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.

CAHR visiting fellows stage performance at York Theatre Royal

Posted on Monday 17 March 2014

Visiting human rights defenders performed "Women on the Frontline: Voices of Dissent" during York International Women's Week.

CAHR co-convenes an Expert Group Discussion on Innovative Thinking for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders in Geneva

Posted on Monday 10 March 2014

CAHR co-convenes an expert roundtable in Geneva on 12 March.

CAHR co-hosts side session on HRDs at UN Human Rights Council

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.

University Teaching Scholarship for Research on Human Rights Defenders at Risk

Posted on Friday 7 February 2014

CAHR offers 3-year University Teaching Scholarship for doctoral student conducting research on human rights defenders at risk.

CAHR congratulates new graduates

Posted on Friday 24 January 2014

17 LLM students and 18 MA students graduated on 24 January 2014.

Two CAHR protective fellows awarded for work in human rights journalism

Posted on Friday 17 January 2014

Two CAHR protective fellows have been awarded the Oxfam Novib/PEN International free expression award.

PhD Studentship: Moral Progress and its Political Limits: Alternative Forms of Intervention

Posted on Tuesday 14 January 2014

PhD studentship at the University of York to study the responsibility to protect.

2013/14 postgraduate students write about their fieldwork experiences

Posted on Wednesday 18 December 2013

CAHR MA and LLM students have recently completed their fieldwork in Malaysia, South Africa and York.

PhD scholarships available

Posted on Wednesday 18 December 2013

Scholarships will fund PhDs at the Universities of Leeds, Sheffield, and York to study the Responsibility to Protect.

Release of a Special Issue on the Protection of Human Rights Defenders in the Journal of Human Rights Practice

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.

CAHR's key role in UN recognised project

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.

CAHR Staff at Transitional Justice Workshop

Posted on Monday 11 November 2013

Lars Waldorf is participating in a new transitional justice research project.

CAHR Staff Discussing Transitional Justice

Posted on Monday 21 October 2013

Lars Waldorf is an invited speaker at a "Practitioner's Dialogue on Transitional Justice and Corruption".

ESRC funded PhD scholarships available at CAHR

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.

CAHR welcomes applications for PG Cert in Defending Human Rights

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.

ESRC award for Professor Paul Gready

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.

CAHR staff speaks on International Refugee Law in Japan

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.

CAHR Staff Speaks on Transitional Justice at Essex

Posted on Wednesday 4 September 2013

Lars Waldorf is an invited speaker at an Essex Transitional Justice Network workshop.

CAHR staff publishes in Human Rights Quarterly

Posted on Friday 16 August 2013

Article questions the UN’s rights-based approach to disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration (DDR).

Call for Papers on "Legal Empowerment in Transitions"

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".

CAHR organises Cities as Sanctuary workshop

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".

CAHR organises final workshop on Translating Freedom in York, 1-3 July 2013

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.

Translating Freedom workshop, Centre for Applied Human Rights, 1-3 July 2013

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.

Libertea - Testimonies of Freedom

Posted on Wednesday 19 June 2013

CAHR's Leverhulme Artist in Residence is collecting testimonies of freedom - read how you can participate.

CAHR runs a workshop on "Legal Empowerment in Transitions" on 27-28 June 2013

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.

IMPORTANT NOTICE: Centre for Applied Human Rights has moved

Posted on Wednesday 29 May 2013

The Centre for Applied Human Rights has moved offices and is now based in York Science Park.

CAHR launches online PGCert in Defending Human Rights

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.

Postgraduate human rights scholarship available at CAHR

Posted on Wednesday 6 March 2013

CAHR is offering one scholarship for the MA or the LLM in 2013-14.

Student experiences of studying at CAHR

Posted on Tuesday 5 March 2013

Current MA and LLM students recount their experiences of studying human rights at CAHR in week-long diaries.

University Magazine features Protective Fellowship Scheme

Posted on Monday 4 March 2013

The Protective Fellowship Scheme is featured in the Spring issue of the University of York Magazine.

CAHR Staff Speaking on Rwanda's Media Freedom

Posted on Monday 4 March 2013

Lars Waldorf talks about Rwanda's lack of media freedom in Washington, DC on 18 April 2013.

CAHR Staff Visits Norway

Posted on Friday 1 March 2013

Lars Waldorf conducts a research visit to the University of Bergen from 18-23 March 2013.

CAHR PhD student coordinates new Diploma at USP

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.

CAHR staff joins human rights journal

Posted on Friday 8 February 2013

Lars Waldorf has become an editor of The International Journal of Human Rights.

Leverhulme Artist in Residence Juliana Mensah is hosted by CAHR during 2013

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.

CAHR congratulates new MA and LLM graduates

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.

CAHR LLM student to join the International Study Center

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.

CAHR participates in Holocaust Memorial Day

Posted on Wednesday 30 January 2013

CAHR plays a role in the University of York’s Holocaust Memorial Day commemoration on 30 January 2013.

CAHR Staff Speaking on Transitional Justice

Posted on Wednesday 23 January 2013

Lars Waldorf talks about transitional justice at Durham Law School on 24 January 2013.

CAHR welcomes as fellows its largest ever intake of human rights defenders

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.

CAHR students return from field trips

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.

CAHR Staff and Fellow Give Human Rights Presentations

Posted on Tuesday 18 December 2012

The Centre talked about human rights with staff from the Anne Frank Trust UK.

Refugee Protection - Cairo Workshop

Posted on Monday 17 December 2012

"Refugees in Egypt: What Revolution? Whose Revolution?"

CAHR Staff Speaking on the Responsibility to Protect and Prosecute

Posted on Thursday 22 November 2012

Lars Waldorf talks about humanitarian intervention and international criminal justice in Leeds on 23 November 2012.

Call for Conference Papers on Human Rights Defenders

Posted on Monday 12 November 2012

"HRDs and the Law" is a new theme at the SLSA annual conference in March 2013.

JHRP reviews Kony 2012

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.

CAHR Staff Speaking at Justice and Security Workshop

Posted on Monday 5 November 2012

Lars Waldorf talks about transitional justice at the Overseas Development Institute in London on 6-7 November.

Martin Jones conducts training on refugee law and policy in Taiwan

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.

Former Protective Fellow's Success in UNDP Call

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.

CAHR welcomes new cohort of students on its MA and LLM

Posted on Monday 15 October 2012

CAHR is delighted to welcome almost 40 students onto its two postgraduate courses for 2012-13.

CAHR launches new online course

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.

Call for Papers for a Special Issue in the Journal of Human Rights Practice: The Protection of Human Rights Defenders

Posted on Monday 8 October 2012

The Journal of Human Rights Practice hosts a special issue on the protection of human rights defenders

Dr Jonathan Ensor publishes paper in IDS Bulletin

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.

CAHR Staff Participating in Transitional Justice Seminar

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.