Projects 2008
Date: November 2006 – December 2008
Location: Nottingham
Unit: Forced Migration and Human Rights
Core Staff: Emilie Hunter, Research and Programmes Co-ordinator
Student Research Assistance: Anna Tkaczynska (2007), Pete Tubman (2008), Chloe Cheeseman
(2008-09)
Funder: Pathfinder Grant from Council for Assisting Refugee Academics (CARA)
Project Summary
In November 2006, the University of Nottingham received one of ten Pathfinder Grants from the Council for Assisting Refugee Academics (CARA) to explore appropriate opportunities within the University for hosting refugee academics and at-risk scholars. The project involved several months of consultations with and surveying of key University departments, academics, community organizations and legal professionals. It revealed widespread support and potential within the University community for hosting at-risk scholars and experts, with promising findings presented to CARA. A direct result of the exercise was the creation of another project to explore opportunities for the centre to support Human Rights Defenders.
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Date: 29 September 2008
Location: Human Rights Law Centre, Nottingham
Core Staff: Prof. David Harris; Prof. Dirk van Zyl Smit; Prof Paul Roberts; Richard Pascoe (Director of China Policy Institute and Executive Committee Member, Great Britain China Institute); Caroline Przybylla, Project Officer
Funder: European Union
Project Summary
HRLC designed and organized a one-day session of dialogue with a senior delegation of 11 experts from China on the subject of reform of the death penalty, covering recent reforms in criminal justice, particularly relating to the right to a fair trial, and UN and European human rights standards and their requirements on the restriction and abolition of the death penalty. The project was funded by the European Union.
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Date: April 2008 – July 2008
Unit: Forced Migration and Human Rights
Core Staff: Alice Edwards
Student Assistant: Monica Esposito
Project Summary
The detention of asylum-seekers, refugees and other migrants is an increasingly
common occurrence in many parts of the world. The Toolkit on Detention Monitoring
and Human Rights Mechanisms outlines some of the main international, regional and
national mechanisms that have mandates to monitor or visit places of detention or
individuals held in detention or detention-like conditions. It also highlights some of the
available judicial or quasi-judicial mechanisms, which arbitrate cases relating to
detention. You can download the toolkit from our publications section.
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Date: 2004-2008
Location: Nottingham
Unit: Post Conflict and Capacity Building
Core Staff: Michael O'Flaherty, Kevin Turner
Funder: Irish Aid
Project Summary
‘Consolidating the Profession: The Human Rights Field Officer’ was an international, inter-institutional project that sought to support human rights fieldwork by contributing to the enhanced professionalization of the sector. The project did this by means of research, training and development of recommendations around the principles, goals and methods of human rights fieldwork. The project was convened and coordinated by the HRLC. Irish Aid, the Government of Ireland’s programme of assistance to developing countries, generously funded the project.
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Date: 2007-2008
Location: Nottingham
Unit: Business, Trade and Human Rights
Core Staff: James Harrison, Emilie Hunter
Project Summary
The project consisted of research into the inter-linkages between international trade law and international human rights law rules and standards. Its two main outputs were a book, The Human Rights Impact of the World Trade Organisation, and a multi-contributor volume The WTO and Human Rights Law.
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