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.

The Centre for Applied Human Rights congratulates The University of the South Pacific (USP) on the launch of two landmark undergraduate modules, "Introduction to the Role and Challenges of Human Rights Defenders" and "Building Resilience among Human Rights Defenders", the first of their kind in the global South.

Our exhibition featuring works created by international women activists and artists in response to government Covid-19 measures is now viewable online.

The Covid pandemic has exacerbated issues of inequality and discrimination in the city, a new report says.

The Centre for Applied Human Rights expresses its support for a solidarity fund created by Chayan Vaddhanaphuti (a CAHR collaborator), alongside James Scott and Tun Myint. The fund is to help people on strike (especially academics and teachers) in Myanmar in this very difficult period.

Work with Geneva Call on the influence of religious leaders on parties to armed conflict.

Human rights defenders continue to face arrest, experience attacks, threats and repression during the COVID-19 pandemic, a new report says.

York is also only the eighteenth city in the world to join the network.

Alice Nah has edited the lastest volume in the Routledge Studies in Human Rights series.

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.