Tag: Human rights

Rhodes Scholars have called on presidential hopefuls and fellow Rhodes scholars, Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Cory Booker, to condemn Israel’s deportation of rights activist, Omar Shakir. Shakir is Israel and Palestine Director at Human Rights Watch. His deportation has been justified by Israeli courts on the grounds that “his actions publicly to advance a boycott […]

On 23rd January, Angola adopted a new penal code, its first since its independence from Portugal. The former penal code was in effect from 1886 and had not undergone reforms since 1975. In doing so, it removed an article that prescribed a jail sentence of six months to three years for “vices against nature”, an […]

To mark the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, located within Mansfield College, held a two-day event, which hosted former US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. The event titled “Confronting Illiberalism: The Role of The Media, Civil Society and Universities”, was held on 10th October to […]

Image Credit: Adithi Shenava Hillary Clinton has been made an honorary fellow of Mansfield College, The Oxford Student can reveal. The former Presidential candidate, herself wife of former President Bill Clinton, was in the College to talk at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, as part of a series of events marking the 70th anniversary […]

Image Credit: Gage Skidmore (CC BY-SA 2.0) Hillary Clinton, the Democratic Party’s nominee for President of the United States in the 2016 election, will be visiting Oxford in October 2018, The Oxford Student can reveal. The Bonavero Institute, located within Mansfield college, is holding two events to mark the 70t​h​ anniversary of the adoption of […]

From its very name, Student Action for Refugees (STAR) makes its objectives very clear – that of the empowerment and mobilisation of young people in local communities across the UK to address one of the most pressing crises in the world today: the refugee crisis. By hosting various volunteering, campaigning, and educational events – here […]

Homophobia and transphobia are certainly not concepts known only to Britain. Whilst it is easy to see areas in which our Government does not act sufficiently in promoting the rights of LGBT+ people, one thing we can at least say with confidence is that they do not actively work against them. We are lucky as […]

The Law Faculty of the University of Oxford has officially welcomed Justice Kate O’Regan as director of The Bonavero Institute of Human Rights. The institute, the building of which was completed in October 2016, is housed in the grounds of Mansfield college. Baroness Helena Kennedy QC, the principal of Mansfield, led the project. The Institute […]

Warning: this piece contains graphic description of torture and reference to self-harm. The recent report from the US Senate Intelligence Committee (SIC) into the CIA’s post-9/11 torture programme has shocked the world. In the 480 page summary released on Tuesday, the SIC details not only the extent and ineffectiveness of torture carried out by the CIA, […]