by aseifert | Jun 8, 2015 | Analysis & Comment, Features, Human Rights, Politics & Law
The UK’s prime minister is said to be prepared to break with the European convention on human rights, co-drafted by British lawyers in the wake of the second world war, if the Strasbourg-based court refuses to accept proposals to ‘scrap’ the Human Rights Act 1998. In...
by aseifert | Nov 29, 2013 | Human Rights, Training and Research
By Helle Abelvik-Lawson, Human Rights Project Officer, Human Rights Consortium (HRC) The Human Rights Consortium’s Corporate Power and Human Rights Project started in earnest at the beginning of the 2012–13 academic year. Doctoral researcher at the Institute of...
by aseifert | May 21, 2013 | Events, Fellowships & Networks, Human Rights
Post by Helle Abelvik-Lawson We’ve had a busy May here at the Extreme Energy Initiative (a project of the Human Rights Consortium). As well as formally launching and developing content for our dedicated project website, www.extremeenergy.org, our preliminary research...
