SOAS Centre for Human Rights Law and the Centre for Palestine Studies Urge UN Special Procedures to Defend the Rights of Human Rights Defenders in Palestine

The SOAS Centre for Human Rights Law and the SOAS Centre for Palestine Studies are marking the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinians, called for by the UN General Assembly in 1977, with an urgent appeal to the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders.

29th November 2021

Mr Hanny Megally to deliver 2020 Annual Justice Lecture hosted by Lawyers for Justice in Libya and SOAS

25th September 2020

SOAS Centre for Human Rights Demands UN Investigation into Police Brutality and Protest Suppression in the United States

9th June 2020

Pablo de Greiff to launch first Annual Justice Lecture hosted by Lawyers for Justice in Libya and SOAS

The UN’s first Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation, and guarantees of non-recurrence, Pablo de Greiff, will be speaking at SOAS University of London this month.

10th January 2019

SOAS student playwright’s production on Olaudah Equiano to cap off Black History Month season at historic National Trust venue

SOAS student Adam Tulloch, BA History, will be directing his original piece entitled Olaudah Equiano, The Enslaved African from 26-29 November at the National Trust’s Sutton House in east London.

4th November 2014

CISD event in US hosts Justice Richard Goldstone to discuss human rights standards

‘Reinforcing Human Rights Standards’, co-organised by SOAS, University of London's Centre of International Studies and Diplomacy (CISD) War Crimes Project, hosted Justice Richard Goldstone and a panel of international scholars for a discussion based on new research on uncovering lessons from the United Nations War Crimes Commissions (UNWCC) of 1943-1948 in the US earlier this week.

30th April 2014

SOAS Professor joins Foreign Office Advisory Group on freedom of religion or belief

Mashood Baderin, Professor of Law at SOAS, University of London has participated in two key events for promoting and protecting human rights, which includes becoming a member of the Foreign Office Advisory Group on freedom of religion or belief.

30th April 2014