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Eradicating poverty, achieving human rights: the links between development and human rights goals
Today, 17 October, marks the 25th International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. The reduction and eradication of poverty and achievement of development goals is often closely linked to human rights rhetoric – but how, and why, are they connected? To explain the...
On the Limits of Abuse: Bruce Gilley and his worldview of Colonial History
By Rahul Ranjan* It is a fatiguing exercise, or rather a much-unsolicited task to respond to Bruce Gilley in his innocuous article published in the ‘Third World Quarterly’ that makes a defensive overtone for colonialism. In fact, it can be seen as the exercise of...
Reminding ‘Power’ about the historical importance of ‘Truth’
By Adam Hughes Henry* The Quaker concept ‘Speaking truth to power’ is an approach based on the idea that it is an act of bearing public witness. There is also the hope that the information they present will shine a light on the darkness of hidden human rights abuses,...
Event report: “Shrinking Space for Civil Society in Russia: challenges and new strategies”
By Lilija Alijeva* “First, we started with providing legal assistance to those who became victims of human rights abuses of Russian law enforcement officers. Then, in 2011, when mass protests started in Moscow and other regions, many people were arrested. We started...
Hidden Among the Maple Trees: Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Asylum Seekers in Canada
In her podcast 'Hidden Among the Maple Trees', Jennifer Rooney, an MA student in Understanding and Securing Human Rights at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, looks at some of the ‘hidden’ issues of immigrant and refugee rights in Canada, namely the...
Biodiversity and Human Rights: an intrinsic connection
By Estefania Monaco* It should be an obvious statement: biodiversity is essential for the enjoyment of human rights. After all, if the Earth cannot sustain plant or animal life, how could it sustain human life? It is a sad sign of our times that our leaders and many...
Conference report: LGBT+ Rights in the 21st Century: Free and Equal?”
By Peter Sioen* “There are currently 1 billion people living under British or British inspired anti-gay laws”, the Kaleidoscope Trust’s new executive director, Paul Dillane, said in his opening statement in a workshop at the 18th Annual Student Human Rights conference...
‘The problem of mass migration must be solved, not resisted’
Anastasia Denisova, an alumna of the MA in ‘Understanding and Securing Human Rights’ (2015-2016), School of Advanced Study, University of London interviewed Svetlana Gannushkina, the Director of ‘Civic Assistance’ NGO (Moscow) and a 2016 laureate of the prestigious...
Statelessness and the Syrian Conflict
By Dilys Hartley* Being stateless ultimately means having no nationality and having no nationality usually means having no documents to prove your identity. People can become stateless for many reasons, two of which are conflict and forced displacement. Conflict not...
Responding to the ‘silent genocide’ of the Rohingya
by Roslynn Beighton* I spent much of 2016 working for a women’s rights group in Myanmar (Burma), which gave me the opportunity to learn about the human rights violations most of the country’s indigenous ethnic groups have been facing for generations, but particularly...
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