The Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex has a global reputation for innovation and excellence. This multi-disciplinary teaching centre for graduates and undergraduates from the UK and all over the world has links with the departments of law, government and sociology at the University.
The Centre is well-known throughout the world for the contributions its staff make to securing and promoting human rights, providing direct legal assistance, training, research and manuals. Their ethos was recently defined as that of the "public intellectual". Members of the Centre are at the cutting-edge of human rights research, theory, practice and policy-making.
Professor Sir Nigel Rodley site on the prestigious UN Human Rights Committee, Professor Francoise Hampson is an independent expert on the UN Sub-Commission for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights. In 2001-2202, Professor Kevin Boyle was the Senior Advisor to Mary Robinson, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. Between 1998 - 2000, Professor Diane Elson was Special Advisor to the Executive Director of UNIFEM. Professor Paul Hunt was recently appointed the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to health, a new position established in 2002. In the same year, Professor Geoff Gibert was appointed Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Refugee Law.
For these reasons, human rights policy-makers, practitioners and students come to the Human Rights Centre from all over the world to research, Study and debate the world's established and emerging human rights, democratic and developmental challenges.
Kevin Boyle shared in the initial creation of Democratic Audit as Director of the Centre. He remained actively involved in developing and directing the Audit as joint chairman and academic editor until his move to Geneva. Paul Hunt now chairs the executive and advisory committees of the Democratic Audit; and Dr. Todd Landman, Joint Director of the Centre, serves on both committees.
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