Early childhood care & education is crucial for a child to learn to communicate, build confidence and relationships, affecting their life outcomes.
Listen to episode one of our podcast series about shaping human rights law interpretation and enforcement through practical advocacy.
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🎙️NEW PODCAST
In episode 1 of our new series, we explore how early childhood care and education can be advanced as a human right through both grassroots advocacy and international legal action.
Featuring Prof Alan Stein, Olivier De Schutter, and Prof Sandy Fredman
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Canada’s Supreme Court has ruled that excluding refugee women from subsidised childcare is discriminatory.
This is a major step forward for intersectional equality under the Charter, recognising how gender and immigration status overlap.
Read more about the wider implications 👇
All courts occasionally face emergencies where a failure to decide is a de facto final determination, and the Supreme Court is no exception. Yet over the last decade, it has routinely issued unexplained emergency orders that sidestep precedent or resolve unsettled issues.
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American Constitutional Law in the Shadows ⚖️
Prof Charles W. “Rocky” Rhodes writes that the US Supreme Court's role is to “say what the law is”, with reasoned justification so that other branches of government and lower courts respect and implement it.
Enter the “the shadow docket.”👇️
In this episode, we will explore how these initiatives navigate the fine line between empowerment, dependence and the gendered expectations that shape public policy.
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In the third episode of our collaborative series with @oxindiacentre.bsky.social we discuss unconditional cash transfer schemes. While these schemes are often designed to enhance women’s financial inclusion and autonomy, they could also reshape their relationship with the state.👇️
Julia Gillard – A Podcast of One’s Own
The former Australian Prime Minister and Chair of the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership hosts engaging conversations with leaders from business, media, and sport, about enabling women to lead. Proceeds support the Institute’s work. buff.ly/s4mQS4E
Dr Ruth Rubio Marín – Gendered Constitutionalism, OxHRH RightsUp Podcast
Constitutions historically reflect men’s views of what matters in a political community. But if women had been the primary drafters, would ‘founding mothers’ have had the same ideas about what is important? buff.ly/U4RGZ41
This International Women’s Day, we’re sharing two podcasts that inspired us to think about how we can “Give To Gain”. We hope they inspire you too.
Through donations, knowledge, mentoring, advocacy, or education, we can support women’s advancement to build a more connected world. Find out more👇️
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RightsUp is brought to you by the Oxford Human Rights Hub.
Executive produced by Meghan Campbell.
Hosted by Justin Winchester.
Produced and edited by Sophie Smith.
Music for the series is by Rosemary Allman.
In Episode 2 of this series, Justin Winchester speaks to Dame Laura Cox KC — a former Justice of the England and Wales High Court between, and former Chairperson of the Bar Council Sex Discrimination Committee — about Baroness Harman's 2025 report on bullying & sexual harassment at the Bar.
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RightsUp is brought to you by the Oxford Human Rights Hub.
Executive produced by Meghan Campbell.
Hosted by Justin Winchester.
Produced and edited by Sophie Smith.
Music for the series is by Rosemary Allman.
Join us for a reflective discussion prompted by Baroness Harman’s 2025 Independent report on bullying, harassment, and sexual harassment at the Bar.
Listen here: soundcloud.com/oxhrh/a-conv...
In the first episode of this new two-part series, Justin Winchester speaks to Dame Laura Cox KC — a Justice of the England and Wales High Court between 2002 and 2016, and former Chairperson of the Bar Council Sex Discrimination Committee — about women's equality in the United Kingdom.
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Social justice is about whether people can live and work with dignity, protection and opportunity. Human rights law is one of our most powerful tools to build a socially just world.
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In our latest blog, Rachel Wechsler examines the TSRA, a landmark law giving trafficking survivors protections in American federal court. This has been a crucial development in implementing the non-punishment principle and advancing human rights in the US.
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- Protect the civilian character of schools & hospitals from military use
- Ensure humanitarian access to conflict zones
It's vital that we keeping working towards legal & policy solutions. Want to join the conversation? ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/how-to-contr...
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- Treat children associated with armed groups primarily as victims and use detention only as a last resort
- Actively focus on reintegrating children released from armed forces or groups
- Prosecute the recruitment and use of children under national law
Over 7 million children worldwide are deprived of their liberty each year.
Whether its unaccompanied children detained in migration centres or child soldiers, the numbers and the living conditions are unacceptable.
UN reports on Children & Armed Conflict set out clear recommendations for change👇️
In our latest blog, Adina Portaru examines Union of Atheists v. Greece, using it to unpack what state neutrality under the ECHR truly requires—and why neutrality need not mean the erasure of religious symbols from public life.
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Brenda Kelly, a consultant obstetrician at the John Radcliffe Hospital and a founder of the Oxford Rose Clinic, which specialises in treating FGM patients. Brenda shares her insights about how the law and medicine interact when it comes to achieving gender equality.
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In 2015, the UN adopted the Sustainable Development Goals to end poverty, protect the planet and promote prosperity. Goal 5 aims to achieve gender equality and end harmful practices, including child marriage and female genital mutilation (FGM).
To learn more, you can listen to our podcast👇
The 27th of January marks the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1945, the largest Nazi death camp.
Eighty-one years on, we remember the six million Jewish men, women and children who were murdered in the Holocaust, and the millions more murdered by the Nazi regime.
#HMD2026
🎙️ A Decolonial Approach to Education & the Law, with Foluke Adebisi
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This episode focuses on the intersection between human rights and the decolonial approach to education. Dr Adebisi is an expert in law, race, equality, legal education, and decolonising education.
🧠 The Right to Education for Neurodiverse People
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This post examines how a flawed conception of ‘inclusivity’ in education has significant potential to harm neurodiverse learners – especially those subject to intersectional marginalisation.
📘 A practical Workbook on the Right to Education
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This workbook is designed to provide an introduction for students aged 16-18 who may not have studied any law, but it can be used by anyone interested in learning about human rights and equality issues.
Today on #InternationalDayofEducation we reaffirm that education is a human right. Education is foundational to human dignity & substantive equality, and we're proud to share work that pushes the conversation forward.
Explore three essential resources on the right to education via the links below:
This #HumanRightsDay celebrating the theme #OurEverydayRights, @OxHRH helps re-engage people with human rights by showing how they shape our daily lives.
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