Who has the legal power to start the process to take the UK out of the EU  (or ‘trigger Article 50’ of the Treaty of Lisbon) – the Government or Parliament? That was the main question decided in the Brexit judgment of the UK Supreme Court. The Government had argued that it could do so…Continue reading The Supreme Court’s Brexit Judgment

Lady Hale, Deputy President of the UK Supreme Court, has been in the news recently. In the media storm following the Miller judgment, one newspaper profiled the judges of the Supreme Court and described Lady Hale as a feminist. More recently her comments during a lecture in Malaysia have attracted some attention. Earlier this year, Ulster…Continue reading Lady Hale

The Association of Human Rights Institute is a network of human rights research centres across the globe, including both the QUB Human Rights Centre and Ulster Univeristy’s Transitional Justice Institute. In September AHRI adopted this Declaration on Academic Freedom:  UTRECHT DECLARATION ON ACADEMIC FREEDOM Meeting at Utrecht University for our annual conference, we, the Association of…Continue reading Utrecht Declaration on Academic Freedom

EIUC – Training for International Electoral Observers The Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation (EIUC) is running a training seminar for International Electoral Observers from 23-28 November 2015. The course, structured in two modules, provides an introduction for civilian staff to the profession of election observers, with a complete theoretical and practical basic knowledge delivered to those considering election…Continue reading Opportunity – training for international electoral observers

A detailed programme of this joint conference organised by Amnesty International, the Committee on the Administration of Justice, the Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation and Social Justice (QUB) and the Transitional Justice Institute (Ulster) is now available on the CAJ website at: http://www.caj.org.uk/contents/1289 RSVP: Email: emma@caj.org.uk or Tele: 02890316016

TJI Conference 30th April 2015, Ulster Hall, Belfast 9.30 a.m. – 5.00 p.m. This international conference will examine the conceptual basis for the inclusion of socio-economic rights in transitional justice mechanisms and explore examples of how this has been done using national examples. It will consider the prospects for the future of inclusion of socio-economic…Continue reading Event: “The more things change, the more they stay the same?” Socioeconomic rights in times of transition

The Human Rights Consortium has a 6 month vacancy. Details at http://www.billofrightsni.org/jobs/ The Human Rights Consortium is a cross-community coalition of over 190 community groups, NGOs and trade unions working to ensure a human rights compliant Northern Ireland. We have the following six month career break opportunity which we seek to fill as soon as possible. Campaign…Continue reading Opportunity: Campaign and Membership Officer (Career Break) with Human Rights Consortium

The policy statement (available on the BBC) includes some sensible opening comments recognising the important role of the European Convention on Human Rights. It then goes on to make numerous vague, tendentious or misleading statements in its ‘Case for Change’. According to the paper “The European Court of Human Rights has developed ‘mission creep’. Strasbourg adopts…Continue reading Misleading, Vague and Baffling: The Conservative Human Rights Policy document

The third year of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Festival will take place in 2014 from the 8 -13 December. The festival celebrates and promotes the importance of human rights at home and abroad and coincides with International Human Rights Day on the 10th December.   Check out the video at http://vimeo.com/101421099 Now in its third year, we…Continue reading Human Rights Festival 2014: Now Accepting EVENT PROPOSALS