Richard Carver writes:
A happy and peaceful New Year to all the readers of this blog. We will be back in January with news of CENDEP’s new partnership with Arba Minch University in Ethiopia, as well as the build-up to the 18th annual Oxford Human Rights Festival in March.
Meanwhile, while it is still (just) 2019, I wanted to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Journal of Human Rights Practice (OUP), a publication that has been closely associated with CENDEP since its launch.
The idea for a human rights journal that would focus not on law but on the activities that make rights a reality came from the founding editors, Brian Phillips and Paul Gready. Brian was the course leader for the Development and Emergency Practice Masters, founder of the Oxford Human Rights Festival, and my predecessor teaching human rights here. Paul, who directs the Centre for Applied Human Rights at the University of York, was the DEP external examiner at the time. I joined the editorial board in 2016 and became an editor two years ago, joining Paul and Ron Dudai, from Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Brian continues his close association with the journal as reviews editor.
We recently published a tenth anniversary issue containing a series of reflections on the practice of human rights over the past decade. The issue is free online and it might be worth looking at, alongside the inevitable end-of-year and end-of-decade reviews that have been the lazy stock in trade of the newspapers over the past few weeks.
