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Current PhD students

The Centre for Applied Human Rights has PhD students conducting research in a variety of fields.

Sherif Azer

• Egypt
• Cyberactivists in Egypt as human rights defenders, their vernacularization of international human rights law and the role this played in the 2011 Revolution

Lucrezia Canzutti

• Italy
• Vietnamese non-citizens in Cambodia

Cindy Leung

• Hong Kong
• Conceptualizing and Implementing a Rights-Based Approach to Address Food Insecurity at City Level in Developed Countries – A Pilot Trial in York

Marynka Marquez

• United States
• Human rights cities in the United States and the United Kingdom.

Brook Morrison

• Canada
• Conducting NATO Operations and Missions in Compliance with International Human Rights Law

Laura Muñoz López

• Spain
• How land grabs in developing countries affect the land rights of local people

Jens Poessel

• Germany
• Access to Justice and Non-Judicial Mechanisms of Cooperation and Coordination in Zambia: Challenges and Opportunities.

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