Saturday 22nd June – Sunday 23rd June, 2013 This year York will celebrate Refugee Week with a festival of films exploring human rights issues from many angles with a wide variety of films from international documentaries to films made by students from local schools. It will take place at different venues, with all day…
Another nugget of delight for frustrated inner-activists in York this summer is Reading Rights. This is part of the York Human Rights City project which has been progressing and developing throughout the past year with a variety of events, including conferences, festivals and fairs. Starting on 10th June (this Monday) Reading Rights will be focusing…
Among York’s many wonders, the Centre for Applied Human Rights (CAHR) is probably one of the most interesting. Although part of York University, CAHR ‘s work goes beyond academia and focuses on the real, down to earth, human rights issues – both in England and around the world. This year it is running a new…