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News 2013

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.