Making Economic and Social Rights Real
December 6, 2017
People’s rights to basic amenities such as housing, education, health, social security and food are things that most of us take for granted, but for some, the rights are still a distant pipe dream. Here in the UK, this is being made ever-clearer by the current controversy around the roll-out of Universal Credit, the homelessness …
Human rights expert is appointed to European Committee of Social Rights
December 16, 2016
Professor Aoife Nolan, from the School of Law has been elected to the Council of Europe’s European Committee of Social Rights (ECSR) Professor Nolan is Head of the Human Right Law Centre’s Economic and Social Rights Unit (ESR),and Co-Director of the Rights and Justice Research Priority Area at the University. Professor Nolan was nominated by …
#Orangetheworld – fighting against gender-based violence
November 29, 2016
On Friday 25 November 2016, The University of Nottingham’s Trent Building turned orange in support of the UN’s #OrangetheWorld campaign at the start of the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence (GBV). The 16 Days of Activism is a world-wide campaign which runs each year from 25 November, the International Day for the Elimination …