by anonymous | Aug 23, 2017 | Uncategorized
Brazilian indigenous activists celebrated on Wednesday after the Supreme Court ruled against a state seeking compensation for land that had been declared tribal reserves. The ruling against Mato Grosso state in western Brazil was seen as a victory for indigenous...
by anonymous | Jun 2, 2017 | Uncategorized
Following an eight-year legal battle, the African Court of Human and Peoples Rights in Arusha found that the Kenyan government violated seven separate articles of the African Charter in a land rights case that dates back to colonial times. Lucy Claridge MRG’s Legal...
by anonymous | Apr 27, 2017 | Uncategorized
Peace Human Rights Governance (PHRG), the new scientific journal of the Human Rights Centre of the University of Padova, is out with its first issue, which prosecutes the ten-year experience developed by the Padova Centre through the review Pace Diritti Umani – Peace...
by anonymous | Apr 27, 2017 | Uncategorized
The Australian Journal of Human Rights (AJHR) has entered into a new publishing partnership with Taylor & Francis as of 1st January 2017. Justine Nolan, an Executive Editor of the AJHR, stated that ‘this partnership is the perfect opportunity to broaden the reach...
by anonymous | Mar 10, 2017 | Uncategorized
The first months of 2017 have been extremely tough for the human rights community. The use of torture as a legitimate form of interrogation in the war against terror is being revisited by the world’s most powerful country. And sadly, the man who fought tirelessly to...
by anonymous | Mar 9, 2017 | Uncategorized
The HRRN, in conjunction with the Human Rights Consortium of the School of Advanced Study held a workshop open to academics, students and NGOs on 9th December 2016 on Strategies to Protect Human Rights Researchers and Academics. It was a successful and well attended...