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.