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Impacts of Business and Human Rights on International Law

Panel discussions and international guest speakers. In honour of Professor Robert McCorquodale, University of Nottingham.

Tags: human rights, Human rights and international law, human rights and law, International Law

Forced marriage and modern slavery: when, and how, are they related? Online talk

The university’s Women’s Staff Network (WSN) is pleased to host the following talk which everyone is […]

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Tags: Dr Helen McCabe, Forced Marriage, human rights, modern slavery, Politics and International Relations, Women’s Staff Network, WSN

Forced to flee: when migration is the only alternative

The 21st Annual Student Human Rights Conference aims to analyse the reasons that cause people to leave their life, their home and their country, as well as identify the consequences of this phenomenon.

Tags: human rights, migration, student human rights conference

Language standards and linguistic inequality in Europe

With the Charter for Regional or Minority Language (Council of Europe, 1992) although Europe appears to be a leader in linguistic equality, why do many inequalities remain?

Tags: human rights, Languages and Area Studies, Leverhulme Trust, linguistics, Professor Doug Kibbee, School of Cultures

Language as a human right: justice, fairness and equality

This year marks the centenary of the inclusion of language as a human right in international treaties. Has this been an effective approach to linguistic inequalities?

Tags: human rights, Languages and Area Studies, Leverhulme Trust, linguistics, Professor Doug Kibbee, Rights and Justice Priority Area, School of Cultures

The new world of digital communication and its challenges for the freedoms of speech and the media

A free public lecture, delivered by Kate O’Regan, Director of the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights at the University of Oxford,

Tags: digital communication, freedom of speech, freedom of the media, human rights, Human Rights Law Centre, Kate O'Regan

Taiwan Pride: Our Fight For Marriage Equality

A lecture discussing the history of advocacy work for same-sex marriage in Taiwan over the past 60 years and the current status of legislation in this area.

Tags: equality, human rights, marriage, Mei-Nu Yu, Pride, Taiwan, Taiwan Studies Programme