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Human Trafficking & Modern Slavery: Looking Back, Looking Ahead

🗓️: 21st November 1-5 PM
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Human Trafficking & Modern Slavery: Looking Back, Looking Ahead

🗓️: 21st November 1-5 PM
📍: Pembroke College Oxford

Register: lnkd.in/eXke3DhH
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November 14, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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New Podcast Alert 📢

In the 2nd episode of Rights in Crisis series, Prof Anup Surendranath talks to Prof Jon Yorke on 'The Death Penalty' in a conversation moderated by Dr Aradhana CV.

Listen here: bit.ly/4hUkcjf
Rights in Crisis - The Death Penalty
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November 11, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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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

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November 5, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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University of Pretoria Centre for Child Law 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
November 5, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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We’re proud to be taking part in this year’s #GreatLegalBake during #ProBonoWeek.

@oxhrh.bsky.social bake sale will be taking place on 7th November at @OxfordLawFac to help raise funds in support of #accesstojustice.

Come out and help us raise dough for justice!🍰
November 3, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery, Looking Back, Looking Ahead: An Assessment of 25 Years under the UN Trafficking Palermo Protocol

📅21st November
⌚️1-5 PM
📍Pembroke College Oxford

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October 31, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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What does it mean for hate speech & human rights law when white men were found to be the victims of hate speech by Parliamentary opposition leader Julius Malema in South Africa?

Wiseman Zondi navigates the need for context and history in such decisions.

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October 16, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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What role should Arabic language play in South Sudan?

Justin Monyping Ater unpacks this complicated question in light of South Sudan's obligations under the ICCPR.

Read his legal analysis in our latest blog: ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/locating-the...
Locating the recognition or unrecognition of Arabic language in South Sudan’s legal frameworks | OHRH
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October 16, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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Nalinaksha Singh comments on the promising decision of the IACtHR which recognised the right to care as an autonomous & enforceable human right, hoping that this paves the way forward for women's rights globally!

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IACtHR Recognises the ‘Right to Care’: What it Means and Why it Matters for Women’s Human Rights | OHRH
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October 15, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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In July 2025, the historic ICJ Advisory Opinion on environmental law affirmed state obligations to curb climate change. But what does the opinion say on due diligence?

Siobhan McInerney-Lankford answers its role within international law & human rights.

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ICJ Advisory Opinion on the Obligations of States with Respect to Climate Change: Human Rights-Based Reflections on Due Diligence | OHRH
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October 15, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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Currently, Brazil's law does not provide sufficient protection for the non-consensual dissemination of intimate or nude images.

Bruna Ferreira de Almeida comments on the law's impact balancing freedom of expression and regulation of online content.

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Big Tech, the Supreme Court and Brazil’s New Era of Civil Liability | OHRH
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October 14, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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@hilakeren.bsky.social analyses the US v Skrmetti case which marks a significant & devastating departure from the constitutional principle of equal protection.

Read more on the judicial sleight of hand leading to wrong interpretation of the Equal Protection Clause

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Deep Denial and No Care: U.S. v. Skrmetti and the Anti-Trans Campaign | OHRH
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October 14, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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@rishikasahgal.bsky.social & Gautam Bhatia have recently published a paper examining eviction cases in India focusing on meaningful engagement as a part of the right to housing.

Read in the latest issue of Comparative Constitutional Studies Journal: www.elgaronline.com/view/journal...
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October 13, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Surabhi Singh analyses the trend in Indian High Court’s systematic denial of petitions to protect interfaith couples to understand the norms which inhabit such cases & whose emotions prevail in decision-making.

Read part 5 of the Policing Love series:

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The Curious Case of Bhagwati Pathwar: What has love got to do with it? (Part 5 of 6) | OHRH
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October 13, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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In the last blog of the Policing Love series, Gitanjali Joshua raises the question of queering marriage laws within the restrictive rhetoric of "love jihad" laws in India.

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October 9, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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In Part 4 of Policing Love series, Soumya Saxena asks: Can institutions built to protect women’s rights also become instruments that curtail their autonomy?

Zooming into Bhopal's One Stop Centre, she expands the normative role of such initiatives.

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From Safe Spaces to Centres of Social Control: Regulating Love through the One Stop Centre in Bhopal, India (Part 4 of 6) | OHRH
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October 8, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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In Part 3 of the Policing Love series, Swapnil Singh unpacks how Section 69 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Samhita impacts live-in or cohabiting relationships of choice, where the law’s reach risks enabling the misuse of criminal provisions.

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And the Law Comes Knocking: Section 69 and the Impact on Live-in Relationships in India (Part 3 of 6) | OHRH
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October 8, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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In Part 2 - Policing Love series, Nidah Kaiser presents India's laws against interfaith relationships which reinforce state’s patriarchal control & empowers family-religious institutions restricting individual freedom, esp women, to choose their partners.

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The Intimate State: India’s Legal Turn Against Interfaith Relationships (Part 2 of 6) | OHRH
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October 7, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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@OxHRH along with Nidah Kaiser & Saumya Maheshwari have curated a blog series on 'Policing Love: Law, Institutions and the Limits of Autonomy'.

The 6 blogs in the series engage with the question of policing of romantic sexual relationships in India.

1/6: ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/policing-lov...
October 7, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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New OxHRH journal article out! 📄

Jacques Hartmann & Reem Alhasawi explore the evolution of int'l law on minimum legal age for marriage. Studying CEDAW & CRC, they identify 16 as the current de facto minimum legal age, with a move towards 18.

Read more: ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/journal-2/
Journal | OHRH
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September 19, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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While honor-based abuse primarily focuses on women, it is important to resolve the blind spot created regarding male victims by the veil of secrecy and masculine taboo. Ritabrata Roy, Sakkcham Singh Parmaar, & Ananya Singh shed light on this issue.

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When “Honour” Goes Viral: Social Media, Masculinity and the Hidden Male Victims of Honour-Based Abuse | OHRH
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September 18, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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In July 2025, a violent vigilante attack -on rumours of a drug ring- left 3 members of a single family dead & another gravely injured in Bangladesh. Joydeep Chowdhury comments on the sharp rise of mob violence & examines the role of state to prevent them.

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Mob Justice, State Failure: The Right to Life Betrayed in Bangladesh | OHRH
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September 17, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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A state-run institution for persons with disabilities reported 14 deaths, without any accountability from the Delhi Government. Shambhavi Singh urges for a National Disability Mortality Registry to prevent such incidents from reoccurring.

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Invisible Deaths: The Case for a National Disability Mortality Registry in India | OHRH
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September 16, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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Karen Baker argues that a July 2025 law which 'permits’ unaccompanied children to withdraw their applications for admission if a perfunctory screening does not reveal dangers of trafficking/persecution will exacerbate existing perils.

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Dismantling Procedural Protections for Unaccompanied Children in the United States | OHRH
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September 15, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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The recent Ukraine & the Netherlands v Russia decision by the ECtHR broadened the jurisdictional scope of the ECHR & the standard of attribution.

Atul Alexander maps the court’s treatment of the relationship between IHRL vis-à-vis IHL.

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European Court of Human Rights Landmark Decision in Ukraine and the Netherlands v. Russia | OHRH
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September 15, 2025 at 12:30 PM