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05 June 2023

Abolishing Malaysia’s mandatory death penalty: A step towards global abolition or a pipe dream?

MPP student Anne Lim examines the use of the death penalty across the Southeast Asian region

Anne Lim

Law

Malaysia

In the media

BBC Newsnight

Newsnight

Lawyer and DPhil student Utkarsh Saxena appears on BBC Newsnight to discuss his petition to the Supreme Court of India for legal recognition of same-sex marriages. Watch from minute 36:44.

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01 June 2021, 17:30 - 19:00

Fighting terror: securitisation and the protection of minorities

A discussion on how historical treatment of minorities as security threats – and attempts to identify, classify and pacify them – have shaped contemporary European approaches to minorities and counterterrorism.

Publication

13 April 2021

Resist, reform or re-run: short- and long-term reflections on Scotland and independence referendums

Ciaran Martin, Professor of Practice in the Management of Public Organisations, delves into the constitutional issues related to a Scottish independence referendum, drawing on direct personal experience from the 2014 referendum and the negotiations preceding it.

Ciaran Martin

Democracy and politics

Law

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Health, education and public services

United Kingdom (UK)

Publication

11 March 2021

Advancing justice for children: innovations to strengthen accountability for violations and crimes affecting children in conflict

Federica D’Alessandra Sareta AshraphJelia SaneVéronique AubertAurélie LamazièreKeyan SalarkiaVanessa Grée

Global security

Law

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Global cooperation

Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict

Economic growth and equality

News

10 March 2021

New research to improve accountability for crimes affecting children in conflict

The investigation, documentation and prosecution of violations and crimes affecting children in conflict is the focus of a new paper in partnership with Save the Children

Global security

Law

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Global cooperation

Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict

Economic growth and equality

Health, education and public services

Publication

11 May 2020