The Hong Kong Refugee Advice Centre Limited (HKRAC) is a non-profit, human rights organisation dedicated to the provision of free legal services to refugees applying for protection. Since our establishment in 2007, we have provided life-changing legal services to over 1,300 refugee men, women, and children. HKRAC operates on a partnership model, with partners including law(…)
We are pleased to post Dr. Ruth Fletcher’s submission to the Health Committee on the General Scheme of the Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill, 2013. Ruth is Senior Lecturer in Law and Director of Centre for Law, Ethics and Society at Keele University. She spoke at the final day of the Committee’s hearings on(…)
The Irish Centre for Human Rights at the National University of Ireland, Galway is pleased to announce details of their Summer School programmes for 2013. 2013 Summer School Programmes at the Irish Centre for Human Rights Summer School on Human Rights, Migration and Globalization 8 to 12 July 2013, NUI, Galway The Irish Centre for(…)
The IMF in the past was somewhat infamous for its distancing of international human rights law. For years and years, it saw itself as sealed off from the content of human rights treaties. Indeed there have even been more extreme claims to say that the Articles of Agreement of the IMF free the organisation from the(…)
UNHCR Ireland invites applications for a six month full-time Protection Internship. Closing date for applications is 29 May 2013. Full particulars of this internship opportunity are available here.
UCD Human Rights Network will be hosting its inaugural International Human Rights Summer School from the 28th to 26th June 2013. The summer school will provide participants with an overview of key issues in international human rights. Summer school faculty from UCD Human Rights Network are renowned experts in their fields and will deliver sessions(…)
On Saturday, 29 June 2013, UCD Human Rights Network will host a conference The ECHR and Ireland: 60 Years and Beyond in the Hilton Hotel, Charlemont Place, Dublin 6. This conference will feature national and international experts on human rights law, and will be a forum for both reflecting on the impact of the European Convention on(…)
We are delighted to welcome this guest post by Dr Edward Kanterian, who is a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Kent. This post is cross-posted with Verfassungsblog. Hungary’s political development under the Orbán government is by now a familiar topic. In April Barroso confirmed the European Commission’s concern that Hungary’s new constitution infringe EU(…)
This morning Hong Kong took a giant leap forward in protecting transgender rights in a judgment of the Court of Final Appeal which will allow a trans* woman to marry her partner. In a judgment that some Irish politicians could do well to take note of the Court concluded that in multicultural jurisdiction such as(…)
The School of Law, NUI Galway’s LLM in Public Law programme will host the 5th Annual Irish Society of Comparative Law Conference on Friday 24th and Saturday 25th of May 2013. Over 50 legal academics and practitioners will present papers at the ISCL Annual Conference on the overarching theme of comparative public law. The Programme(…)
