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Kyla Sankey, a student from the LLM programme International Development Law and Human Rights, has been awarded the 2011/12 Santander Scholarship. The scholarship aimed to fund students based on a demonstration that their study relates to the understanding of development within Latin America and that their research and knowledge will be disseminated to the wider Warwick community.

Kyla arrived at Warwick after working in human rights organisations in Colombia for 4 years. Through the Centre for Human Rights in Practice, she helped to organise a talk from a Colombian human rights lawyer for students at the university. She has also written articles on development and human rights in Colombia both for the Centre for Human Rights in Practice publication and the news website OpenDemocracy.

The Governance and Social Development Resource Centre has posted a synopsis of Centre co-director, James Harrison's article 'Measuring Human Rights: Reflections on the Current Practice and Future Potential of Human Rights Impact Assessment' on their website. The synopsis is available here.

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The Centre for Human Rights in Practice, together with Coventry Women's Voices, has today launched a project to examine the human rights and equality impact of the public spending cuts on older women in Coventry.

This project follows on from the Centre's previous work which examined the potential impact of the cuts on all women in Coventry. The current study will examine the actual impact of the cuts on one particularly vulnerable group - older women.

Centre co-director, Dr. James Harrison commented: "We are delighted to be continuing our collaboration with Coventry Women's Voices which has already produced a report with far-reaching impacts. Older women are vulnerable to a wide range of different cuts including to health, social care, transport, housing and many other forms of support. This project will examine the cumulative impacts of these cuts on particularly vulnerable individuals in a way that is vital to any effective action to protect their human rights and ensure they are not discriminated against."