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Advertising for a PhD on the impact of spending cuts on legal advice services
The Centre for Human Rights in Practice is currently advertising for an ESRC-Funded Collaborative PhD which will examine the impact of the imminent cuts to legal advice services, particularly on the most vulnerable and disadvantaged. This PhD will build upon the Centre's approaches and methodologies in its previous equality and human rights impact assessment work. For more information please click here.
Kenneth Clarke to consider lessons of Centre's research
The Joint Committee on Human Rights' Report on the Implementation of the Right of Disabled People to Independent Living published this week found that the UK Government has failed to adequately assess the cumulative impact of current reforms on the human rights of disabled people.
JCHR recommended that the Government should publish an integrated human rights and equality impact assessment of the likely cumulative impact of the proposals on independent living - based on the methodology which CHRP has been developing for the Scottish Human Rights' Commission. See our report here.
JCHR welcomed the commitment by the Secretary of State for Justice, Kenneth Clarke, to consider the outcomes of the process being developed by the Scottish Human Rights Commission and the Equality and Human Rights Commission and "to see if it holds any useful lessons for Whitehall departments in the
way in which they assess the human rights impact of laws and policies." (see paras 102-115 of the report).
Sharifah Sekalala awarded Early Career Fellowship
Sharifah Sekalala has been awarded the Early Career Fellowship which is sponsored by the Institute of Advanced Studies. This programme is designed for Warwick doctoral candidates in the transition phase between their doctoral and postdoctoral careers. Her application was strongly supported by the Human Rights Centre in Practice. Sharifah will be working closely with the Centre during the period of her fellowship.
During her fellowship, Sharifah will explore the concept of emerging norms in the field of global health, particularly those that have emerged in response to the AIDS pandemic. She will also look impact of the new institutions that have been created as a result of HIV/AIDS and how they have impacted on international health in developing countries. These institutions include the Global Program on AIDS, UNAIDS, the Global Fund which finances AIDS related activities, GAVI which is leading the research into the development of vaccine for the AIDS pandemic.)