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The war on drugs and human rights crisis in the Philippines

Description
The Civil and Political Rights Unit held a webinar panel event on 'The war on drugs and human rights crisis in the Philippines'. Participants were invited to watch the National Geographic documentary, The Nightcrawlers, before the event.
Date:
19 June 2020

Sharia Law in Europe?

Description
On 18 June 2020, the European Court of Human Rights delivered a Grand Chamber judgment concerning the matter of just satisfaction in the case of Molla Sali v. Greece.
Date:
18 June 2020

LGBT and Transgender Rights in the United States

Description
On 15 June 2020, in Bostock v. Clayton County, the United States Supreme Court issued a historic ruling on the rights of LGBT and Transgender Persons. The issue has been extensively considered by Professor McGoldrick in his article on 'The Development and Status of Sexual Orientation Discrimination under International Human Rights Law'.
Date:
17 June 2020

The Annual Fundamental Rights Report 2020 of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency is now available

Description
The report summarises and analyses major human rights developments in the EU over 2019. HRLC researchers did research for the UK component of the report. The main findings are that growing intolerance and attacks on people's fundamental rights continue to erode the considerable progress achieved over the years.
Date:
15 June 2020

Congratulations to Professor Marko Milanovic who has been awarded a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship

Description
Professor Marko Milanovic's research project will explore the international legal aspects of intelligence sharing in multinational military operations.
Date:
05 June 2020

'Bringing Human Rights to Bear on COVID-19': video now available

Description
What are the human rights issues raised by COVID-19? To what extent do government responses to the pandemic comply with human rights law? These and other key questions were addressed by an international team of HRLC experts: Professor Robert McCorquodale, Professor Marko Milanovic and HRLC Co-Director Professor Aoife Nolan.
Date:
01 June 2020

Congratulations to HRLC member Professor Annamaria LaChimia, who was awarded British Academy funding for a project on Sustainable Food Procurement for Schools

Description
HRLC member Professor LaChimia will work in collaboration with colleagues from the University La Sapienza di Rome.
Date:
05 May 2020

Refugee Lawyer Visits Nottingham

Date:
31 January 2020

HRLC was awarded funding by the Equality and Human Rights Commission

Description
?We are pleased to announce that HRLC has been awarded funding to work with the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) on a project aiming at obtaining a clearer understanding of how civil society organisations (CSOs) based in England and Wales use the international human rights framework (IHRF), the Human Rights Act 1998, the Equality Act 2020 and the Public Sector Equality Duty in their work.
Date:
09 January 2020
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