Human Rights Consortium
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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...
UN Decade for People of African Descent: A Case of “hidden” Afrophobia in Lithuania
On Christmas Day, 2015, in Klaipeda, the third biggest city in Lithuania, I witnessed a racist attack; more specifically, an afrophobic attack. My companion of African descent was insulted by a complete stranger for no other reason than “looking different”. The...
Thinking Human Rights?
by Dr Adam Hughes Henry* The question of human rights is often presented by many experts as a vexing one. What can be done? How can justice be implemented? How can outcomes be improved? How can atrocities be prevented? Having explored some of these questions in...
Keeping the Memory Alive: Guarani Kaiowá fight for ancestral land
Brazilian Indigenous Delegation Visit to London in October 2016 by Genna Naccache* From October 3rd to the 6th I had the privilege to join the Brazilian Guarani Kaiowá Indigenous delegation in their mission in London. My professor Dr Corinne Lennox put me in touch...
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