Counter-Terrorism and Human Rights: Avoiding the Terrorist Trap (with Tom Parker)
Tom Parker, a counter-terrorism practitioner and former UN war crimes investigator, recently published a book called Avoiding the Terrorist Trap, in w...
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RightsCast brings you discussion on a wide range of contemporary and enduring human rights issues from the University of Essex Human Rights Centre. Bringing together diverse voices from all over the world, we apply a human rights lens to better understand current events, to discuss key and emerging issues, and to explore how to achieve social change. From grassroots movements to major international affairs, join us each week as we talk to the people behind the stories and seek to create a dialogue around the role of human rights in our daily lives. hrcessex.wordpress.com
Qualified Immunity: How Police Get Away with Murder (with Haim Abraham, Nimra Azmi, Joanna Schwartz and Jennifer Page)
The doctrine of qualified immunity protects government officials from being held personally liable for constitutional violations, and thus poses a sig...
Article 18 of the European Convention on Human Rights (with Prof. Başak Çalı and Dr Corina Heri)
Article 18 of the European Convention on Human Rights prohibits the restriction of rights for any other purpose than those for which they are prescrib...
A Guide to On/Offline Protestor Privacy (with Shakiba Mashayekhi, Leenah Bassouni and Rachael Cornejo)
Open Source Researchers of Color (OSROC), a collective of open-source researchers and investigators, recently published a guide to help protestors pro...
The Hostile Environment and No Recourse to Public Funds
No Recourse to Public Funds is a key part of the UK government's Hostile Environment policy, designed and intended to make the lives of illegal immigr...
Holiday Hunger: The Right to Food and Free School Meals (with Candice James and Imogen Richmond-Bishop)
In England, 1.3 million school-aged children rely on Free School Meals throughout the year. Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, the government has launched ...
Before the COVID-19 Crisis there was the Refugee Crisis: Protecting Forcibly Displaced Persons in a Global Pandemic (with Prof. Geoff Gilbert and Dr Madeline Garlick of UNHCR)
UNHCR have released a set of documents relating to protection considerations in the context of the COVID-19 response here: https://www.refworld.org/co...
The Al-Khatib Trial: Holding Syrian Regime Officials to Account in Germany (with Joumana Seif and Andreas Schueller of ECCHR)
Get updates from ECCHR on the trial here: https://www.ecchr.eu/en/case/trial-monitoring-first-trial-worldwide-on-torture-in-syria/ In the Higher Regio...
Human Rights in the Time of Coronavirus (with Judith Bueno de Mesquita, Koldo Casla and Matteo Bassetti)
The human rights issues emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic sweeping the globe are unprecedented and wide-ranging. In this episode, Daragh Murray is j...
Digital Witness: Using Open Source Info for Human Rights Investigations
Modern technology - and the enhanced access it provides to information about human rights abuses - has the potential to revolutionise human rights rep...