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Centre for Human Rights

Protecting human rights globally

The Centre for Human Rights (CHR) at 探花直播 promotes the protection of human rights, access to justice and the rule of law, around the world.

Consultancy

We provide legal advice and report drafting for political regions, governments, nongovernmental organisations and wider civil society stakeholders.

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Clinic

CHR members provide legal advice, drafting legal arguments, and amicus curiae brief writing for litigation in international and domestic cases.

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Research and Education

We engage in world leading research and publications, and provide innovative human rights education through Model United Nations simulated exercises.

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Our work

We undertake advisory roles in the United Nations, the European Union, the Council of Europe, the African Union, and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations region. We provide consultancy services to governments and nongovernmental organisations, and in selected individual cases we draft legal opinions and file legal briefs in domestic courts and in international human rights courts.

Since the creation of the CHR in 2014, we have been either the lead implementer or partners on externally funded projects through the European Union鈥檚 Initiative for Democracy and Human Rights, and the UK government鈥檚 Foreign and Commonwealth Office鈥檚 Human Rights and Democracy Program, and five Midlands4Cities studentship provided by the Arts and Humanities Council.

The work from the CHR significantly informs the School of Law鈥檚 Research Excellence Framework (REF) submission, in providing key publications, and for contributing to our case studies. We have also created high-level human rights simulated exercises, including a UN Security Council 鈥淢odel United Nations,鈥 to contribute to Law鈥檚 submission in the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF). In our work with international organisations, governments, and nongovernmental organisations, we engage effective and efficient processes to further the Knowledge Exchange Framework (KEF).听听听听

Law PhDs

We听support a thriving PhD community, largely through its three main research centres: The Centre for American Legal Studies, The Centre for Human Rights and the Centre for Law, Science and Policy. We also contribute to the work of the University-wide Centre for Brexit Studies.听

Meet the director

Professor of Human Rights and Director of the Centre for Human Rights, Jon Yorke, has been recognised for his work on the death penalty in the United States and around the world.听Professor Yorke started his law journey in the US, working at the Oklahoma Indigent Defense System in 1996 and the Federal Public Defenders Office in 1997. In 2024, he was听given the Andrew Lee Jones Award at the 2024 Amicus Champions of Justice Awards.

Professor Jon Yorke holding IAMBCU award

Members

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Contact

For more information please contact听Professor Jon Yorke, (jon.yorke@bcu.ac.uk)听Director and Professor of Human Rights, Dr Alice Storey (alice.storey@bcu.ac.uk),听Associate Director (Clinic and Consultancy) or听Dr Amna Nazir (amna.nazir@bcu.ac.uk),听Associate Director (Partners, and Research and Education).