University of Essex Human
Rights Centre
The University of Essex Human Rights Center is located at the University of
Essex , Colchester , United Kingdom . The Centre consists of over fifty human
rights experts, on campus and beyond, encompassing a rich and diverse range
of disciplines, experience, expertise and backgrounds. In 1983, it established
the first postgraduate degree in international human rights law in the United
Kingdom . It introduced a suite of undergraduate human rights degrees, among
the first in the United Kingdom and the world. Human rights research is informed
by human rights practice. For many years, senior staff have held--and continue
to occupy-key positions in the UN human rights and development fields. They
have conducted numerous cases in Strasbourg , establishing far-reaching precedents
that have shaped jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights
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