Partners

The Essex HR Clinic assists the work of the following academic projects, non-governmental and grassroots organisations:

Dale Farm Housing Association (DFHA)

The Dale Farm Housing Association seeks to protect the rights of Travellers living at the Dale Farm Community in southeast England. The organisation is committed to legalising the status of Travellers who have been denied the right to develop land they own. The Association has around 100 members.

Open Society Justice Initiative (OSJI)

The OSJI uses law to protect and empower people around the world. Through litigation, advocacy, research, and technical assistance, the organisation promotes human rights and builds legal capacity for open societies. OSJI fosters accountability for international crimes, combats racial discrimination and statelessness, supports criminal justice reform, addresses abuses related to national security and counter terrorism, expands freedom of information and expression, and stems corruption linked to the exploitation of natural resources.

Essex Business and Human Rights Project (EBHR)

The EBHR aims to encourage dialogue across these disciplines, and among actors from a broad range of backgrounds. It aims both to foster research and to bring the results of that research to bear on practical problems. It works on both national and international issues, and collaborates with partners in various parts of the world.

Institute for Democracy and Conflict Resolution (IDCR)

The IDCR provides a portal for sharing and accessing knowledge based on social scientific analysis, legal and normative frameworks, and practical experience of working on national and international projects and programmes. It draws on the research, training, and practical expertise developed at the University of Essex in the areas of democracy, conflict, human rights, justice, and governance to provide a wide range of knowledge transfer activities that will be of interest to policymakers, think tanks, non-governmental organisations, and private companies.

Essex History Department

The History Department is concerned with the local and the global, and teach and write about everything from households and communities in Essex to witchcraft in Germany, from the history of disease to the culture of death, from shopping to sex, from the censorship of theatres to state surveillance, from slaves in the Americas to aristocrats in France, from atrocities in Ireland to martial arts in Brazil, from oil to food, from revolutions in England, China and Russia to the struggle for racial equality in South Africa and the United States.