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Joined June 2012
4 days to register! Human Trafficking & Modern Slavery: Looking Back, Looking Ahead 🗓️: 21st November 1-5 PM 📍: Pembroke College Oxford Register: lnkd.in/eXke3DhH @HillaryClinton @allidablack @UKAntiSlavery @Benji_Gourgey @SlaveryPEC @ma_jovanovic @RosanaGarcianda
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This #HumanRightsDay celebrating the theme #OurEverydayRights, @OxHRH helps re-engage people with human rights by showing how they shape our daily lives. Follow us to advance understanding & protection of human rights & equality. @UNHumanRights @OxfordLawFac
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UKSC's decision in R (Jwanczuk) v Secretary of State for Work & Pensions prioritised proportionality review over considering disability as a suspect ground of discrimination. Mustaqim Iqbal comments on the decision. ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/a-long-sha…
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In June 2025, Federal Court of Malaysia in SIS Forum v Jawatankuasa Fatwa Negeri Selangor held that there couldn't be a fatwa declaring SIS as ‘deviant’ as it is a corporation & cannot profess the religion of Islam. Zheng Hong See analyses the decision. ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/malaysian-…
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Alexander Hughes analyses 2 #ECtHR decisions highlighting the Court's inconsistent approach to determining complaints made by women in the context of domestic & sexual violence. ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/the-incons…
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Sajjad Hussain Nekokara urges Pakistan to uphold and protect the right of children to legal identity, which remains a distant dream for orphans, street children, and those without parental presence. ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/right-to-c…
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"Community supervision' in Australia's immigration control regime includes electronic ankle bracelets, nightly curfews, & mandatory reporting to authorities. Han Lu analyses the stakes in High Court's considerations of such unconstitutional practices. ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/australias…
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Pakistan Supreme Court's decision in Dr. Seema Hanif Khan v. Waqas Khan has come close to solving the tension between talaq, khula, & dissolution of marriage (faskh). @sufi_shahab comments on the decolonial jurisprudence emerging in this field. ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/a-decoloni…
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AI training leads to significant environmental costs - water use for cooling operations, high energy consumption, & increasing GHG emissions. Marco di Donato asks if AI training threatens the human right to a clean, healthy, & sustainable environment. ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/ai-trainin…
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Jimmy Kimmel's jokes on #CharlieKirk led to him being silenced by private actors. Eva Montero Ibarra explores how free speech is constrained not only by direct state action but also by the subtler interplay of state intimidation & private enforcement.
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Eva Montero Ibarra argues in this two-part blog that public lawyers cannot afford to treat ‘private’ censorship as beyond our concern. Part 1: ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/democratic… Part 2: ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/democratic…
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24 hours to register ❗ Don't miss out on the chance to reflect on 25 years of the UN Palermo Protocol on Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery. Register here: form.jotform.com/25292449728…
4 days to register! Human Trafficking & Modern Slavery: Looking Back, Looking Ahead 🗓️: 21st November 1-5 PM 📍: Pembroke College Oxford Register: lnkd.in/eXke3DhH @HillaryClinton @allidablack @UKAntiSlavery @Benji_Gourgey @SlaveryPEC @ma_jovanovic @RosanaGarcianda
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Deadline Extended ‼️ Submit your abstracts for the @PublicLawConf on 'Public Law and the Future of Constitutional Democracy' happening in Cape Town in July 2026. Deadline: 8th December 2025 @UniMelb @StellenboschUni @UWConline @UCT_news
We are pleased to share an updated call for papers, with a deadline for submission of abstracts of 8 December 2025. You can submit via Oxford abstracts: app.oxfordabstracts.com/stag… Conference: 1-4 July 2026, Cape Town Theme: Public Law & the Future of Constitutional Democracy
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New Podcast Alert 📢 In the 2nd episode of Rights in Crisis series, @asurendranath talks to Prof Jon Yorke on 'The Death Penalty' in a conversation moderated by Dr Aradhana CV. Listen here: bit.ly/4hUkcjf
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✏️Remember to Register ✏️ Human Trafficking & Modern Slavery, Looking Back, Looking Ahead An Assessment of 25 Years under the UN Trafficking Palermo Protocol When: 21st November 1-5 PM Where: Pembroke College Oxford Register here: form.jotform.com/25292449728…
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Replying to @UPChildLaw
@UPChildLaw and @OxHRH urge the Supreme Court of Appeal to put children first in landmark class action case on the Kabwe Lead Poisoning. Read the press statement here: bit.ly/43ULWhY #environmentaljustice #leadpoisoning #kabwe #childrights
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Read our blogs since 2020 to know more about the case: Kabwe mine: taking rights seriously in a toxic city by @ToadSage24 and Nick Queffurus ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/kabwe-mine…
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Indemnity clauses in Mining Development Agreements in Zambia by @ToadSage24 ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/indemnity-…
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