Sussex Centre for Human Rights Research

Current areas of research and interest

  • Access to justice
  • Advocacy networks
  • Business and human rights
  • Children’s Rights
  • Citizenship, the right to a nationality and statelessness
  • Counterterrorism
  • Culture, identity and language rights
  • Cultural heritage
  • Detention
  • Fair trial and due process
  • Fertility treatment and the right to family for LGBTIs
  • Freedom of religion
  • Hate crime
  • Human rights and emergency situations
  • Human rights and international humanitarian law
  • International and regional human rights frameworks
  • International Criminal Law (see, for example, Aisling O’Sullivan’s book Universal Jurisdiction in International Criminal Law)
  • LGBTIQ+ rights and asylum (see the SOGICA project website)
  • Minority and aboriginal rights
  • Nongovernmental organisations
  • The right to a family
  • Social movements
  • Socioeconomic rights
  • South Africa
  • Torture (see, for example, 2018 paper by Aisling O’Sulivan and Roja Fazaeli)
  • Trade unions
  • Transitional justice and transformative justice (see, for example, Matthew Evans speaking here)
  • Women's rights

We adopt a wide range of methodologies, approaches and perspectives in our work, including critical, empirical and inter/multi-disciplinary