Projects 2009
Date : 2008-2009
Unit : Forced Migration and Human Rights
Core Staff : Alice Edwards
Research Assistants : Monica Esposito (2008) Claire Balding, Lydia Geny, Laura
O’Donnell, Emily Soothill (2009)
Project Summary
The Refugee Women Project was an ongoing priority project of the Forced Migration and
Human Rights Unit. With the twentieth anniversary of the UNHCR's first policy on
refugee women in 2010, the project explored the development and emergence of
specific policies on refugee and other displaced women and their implementation at the
field level, in order to explore new methodologies and theories about gender, human
rights, and refugee women. It was also interested in the role and impact of international
human rights standards relating to women within the displacement and statelessness
contexts.
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Date: 2006 – July 2009
Core Staff: Daniel Moeckli
Unit: Counter Terrorism and Human Rights
Project Summary
The project conducted research with the goal of developing specific criteria and procedures for the human rights evaluation of anti-terrorism laws, as part of a wider research project led by the German Institute of Human Rights.
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Date: 2006 – July 2009
Core Staff: Daniel Moeckli
Unit: Counter Terrorism and Human Rights
Project Summary
Research and documentation of the terrorist profiling practices increasingly relied upon by enforcement agencies to detect and deter terrorist activities, with the aim of assessing their compatibility with human rights standards. The research outputs contributed to the terrorist profiling report of the Special Rapporteur on counter-terrorism and human rights.
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Date: March 2008 – July 2009
Core Staff: Daniel Moeckli
Unit: Counter Terrorism and Human Rights
Student Research Assistance: Javier Argomaniz, Abdul Latif Shakoor
Project Summary
The project mapped key states’ anti-terrorism laws and capacities and ratification of international anti-terrorism and human rights instruments. The country profiles have been made available on the HRLC website .
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Date: 10 and 20 March, 22 June 2009
Location: Nottingham
Unit: Short Courses and Training
Core Staff: David Harris, Caroline Przybylla
Funder: Office of the Judiciary of Thailand.
Project Summary
Three one-day seminars for 125 Court of Appeal judges from the Judiciary of Thailand, designed on thematic areas of international human rights law and criminal justice processes. Funded by the Office of the Judiciary of Thailand.
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Date: September 2008- June 2009
Location: Nottingham, Brussels, The Hague
Unit: International Criminal Justice
Core Staff: Morten Bergsmo, Knowledge Transfer Ambassador, Dr. Olympia Bekou, Project Director, Emilie Hunter, Project Director , Caroline Przybylla, Project Officer
Student Research Assistance: Alvin Tan, Sabrina Munao, Mark Chadwick
Funder: University of Nottingham Knowledge Transfer and Innovation Strategy Group
Project Summary
Funded by the University of Nottingham Knowledge Transfer and Innovation Strategy Group, the ICJ Unit embarked on a knowledge transfer project with EU policy makers in September 2008, which aimed to facilitate exchange between HRLC experts and EU policy makers on the role that specifically designed research tools, such as HRLC’s National Implementing Legislation Database (NILD) and the rest of ICC Legal Tools , can play in enhancing the functionality of criminal justice for atrocities and in furthering the EU’s broad commitment to promote the ICC.
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Date: October 2007 – March 2009
Location: New York; Nottingham
Unit: International Criminal Justice
Core Staff: Emilie Hunter; Olympia Bekou; Caroline Przybylla
Student Research Assistants: Alvin Tan, Rose-Ann Charles, Lena Sherif
Funder: UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO)
Project Summary
The fifth in a series of training and capacity building programmes on ratification and implementation of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court provided training to government officials and lawyers in the CARICOM region. Held in New York, the seminar considered a range of legal issues faced with regard to ratification and national implementation of the Rome Statute by States in the Caribbean Region. In addition, remote assistance was given to the Jamaican government and further opportunities for bilateral assistance and capacity building with other CARICOM States were explored.
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Date: 16 - 27 February 2009
Location: Nottingham
Unit: Short Courses and Training
Core Staff: David Harris, Emilie Hunter, Agnes Flues
Funder: Office of the Judiciary of Thailand
Project Summary
In 2009, HRLC developed and organised a two-week residential human rights training programme for 46 court officials from the Judiciary of Thailand, designed around different thematic areas related to international human rights law and the criminal justice process, supported by practical study visits to key legal institutions in the UK. The Seminar was funded by the Office of the Judiciary of Thailand.
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Date: 19 - 23 January 2009
Location: Nottingham, London
Unit: Short Course and Training
Core Staff: David Harris, Emilie Hunter, Caroline Przybylla
Student Research Assistant: Alvin Tan
Project Summary
Between 19-23 January 2009, HRLC organised a one-week study tour for Iranian judges and lawyers covering different aspects of the British Criminal Justice System and related human rights issues, through a combination of seminars, study visits and practitioner dialogues. Participants spent four days at the University of Nottingham, and one day in London.
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Date: March 2009- July 2009
Location: Nottingham
Unit: Post Conflict and Capacity-Building
Core Staff: Michael O’Flaherty, Emilie Hunter, Agnes Flues
Funders: UoN Knowledge Transfer and Innovation Strategy Group
Project Summary
The Guiding Principles for Human Rights Field Officers were developed in the framework of the Consolidating the Profession: The Human Rights Field Officer project led by HRLC between 2004 – 2008. Thise follow-up project in 2009 was designed to develop readily accessible informative and interpretative tools and ensure their widespread dissemination alongside the Guiding Principles to practitioners, academics and policy-makers. The project was funded through an award of the Knowledge Transfer and Innovation Strategy Group of the University of Nottingham.
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Date: October 2008 – April 2009
Location: Nottingham
Core Staff: Emilie Hunter; David Harris
Student Research Assistance: Tom Bewick, Chloe Cheeseman, Sabrina Gilani, Lydia Geny, Anna Johanasson, Olha Melen
Project Summary
This project was prompted by a 2-year exercise investigating opportunities to support At-Risk Scholars in the University environment (funded by the Council for Assisting Refugee Academics), and a visit by Ms Hina Jilani, UN Special Representative for Human Rights Defenders, to the HRLC in Spring 2008. Project activities included mapping the activities of relevant actors in support of human rights defenders, and the creation of three fellowships for human rights defenders to take part in the International Human Rights Law Short Courses in Autumn 2008 and Spring 2009.
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