RightsCast
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RightsCast
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 issues, and...
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Arts and Human Rights
What contribution can and does art and artists make to the human rights project? This episode brings together experts from the Essex human rights comm...
AI and Human Rights: Just Good Friends or Hostile Forces?
This week, leading experts on AI and human rights discuss the relationship between AI and human rights. Is AI bad for our rights? Should human rights...
In Conversation With Professor Paul Hunt
Host Dr Andrew Fagan discusses the current state of human rights with Essex professor of law and globally renowned human rights advocate, Paul Hunt. D...
Defending the Right to Peaceful Protest in Dark Times
Standing up for your rights is becoming increasingly difficult in many countries. What rights do we have to peacefully protest and why are these right...
The Future of Copyright in the age of AAI
In this podcast, you will listen to the book launch of Dr Aviv Gaon’s latest book: ‘The Future of Copyright in the Age of Artificial Intelligence’, in...
Problematizing Law, Rights, and Childhood in Israel/Palestine
In this podcast, you will listen to the book launch of Dr Hedi Viterbo’s latest book: ‘Problematizing Law, Rights, and Childhood in Israel/Palestine’,...
LGBTQ+ Rights: LGBTQ+ Community in Italy
In the third episode of the LGBTQ+ Podcast, our guest, Cate Fantacci, discusses the public perception of LGBT+ people in Italy and how it is influence...
LGBTQ+ Rights: LGBTQ+ Community in Israel
Our second podcast is with Dr. Haim Abraham, a lecturer at the University of Essex. He gives us an informative discussion on surrogacy in relation to...
LGBTQ+ Rights: Asylum Seekers in the UK
Asylum claims based on sexual orientation and gender identity are systematically rejected both in the UK and Europe. The officials often expect the cl...
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...
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 (with Kimberly Garande, Andy Jolly and Koldo Casla)
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...
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 (with Alexa Koenig and Sam Dubberley)
Modern technology - and the enhanced access it provides to information about human rights abuses - has the potential to revolutionise human rights rep...
Policing and Human Rights: Building A Universal Protocol for Investigative Interviewing (with Graham Dossett)
Graham Dossett is a former police officer who now uses his experience to advise on policing and human rights issues. He is currently a member of the a...
Making Rights Real: The Human Rights Law Implementation Project (with Anne-Katrin Speck and Prof. Clara Sandoval)
In this episode, Anne-Katrin Speck and Professor Clara Sandoval discuss the findings from their research into the implementation—or non-implementation...
Promoting Tolerance and Tackling Hate with Human Rights (with Paul Hunt, Malcolm Evans, Ruth-Anne Lenga, Andrew Copson, and Simona Cruciani)
Globally, there appears to be a rise in hatred threatening to destroy societal harmony and the foundations of peace. Against this backdrop, this panel...
R v Brown: Can We Consent to Harm? (with Dr Matt Lodder, Dr Emily Jones and Alexandra Grolimund)
.In this episode, Dr Daragh Murray chairs a discussion with Dr Matt Lodder, Dr Emily Jones and Alexandra Grolimund about the lasting impact of the inf...
Litigating Business and Human Rights Cases (with Dr Miriam Saage-Maaß and Daniel Leader)
In this episode of RightsCast, we bring you a panel discussion, chaired by Sheldon Leader, with Dr Miriam Saage-Maaß and Daniel Leader, both leading p...
Protecting Social Media Users: Arguing for a Duty of Care (with Prof. Lorna Woods)
Professor Lorna Woods and Will Perrin, with support from Carnegie UK Trust, have been working on a public policy proposal to introduce regulation desi...
Killing Machines: A Posthuman Feminist Approach to Autonomous Weapons Systems and Military Technologies (with Dr Emily Jones)
From drone warfare to 'autonomous' weapons like the SGR-A1, technology has drastically altered the nature of modern conflict. In this episode, Dr Emil...
Investigations and Advocacy with Amnesty International’s Crisis Response Team
This episode of RightsCast features a panel discussion with senior members of Amnesty International’s Crisis Response Team, who explore a range of iss...
Freedom, Peace and Justice: The Sudanese Revolution
In December 2018, emergency austerity measures and the rising cost of living in Sudan sparked demonstrations demanding economic reform, which quickly...
Nazanin’s Story (with Richard Ratcliffe and Dr Carla Ferstman)
In this episode of RightsCast, Dr Carla Ferstman is joined in conversation by Richard Ratcliffe, who has been campaigning tirelessly since 2016 for th...
Illustrating Patterns of Repression: How Amnesty International Responded to the Hong Kong Protests (with Sam Dubberley)
When protests against Hong Kong's proposed extradition bill were met with the police's heavy hand, Amnesty International responded, showing evidence o...
Engaging Socio-Economic Rights at the Local Level (with Dr Andrew Fagan, Lucy Davies and Rebecca Rocket)
In his recent report on extreme poverty in the UK, UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights Philip Alston highlighted our local area...
Human Rights and Law of Armed Conflict Investigations by UN Bodies (with Prof. Francoise Hampson and Prof. Charles Garraway)
In this episode, Dr Daragh Murray is joined by Professor Francoise Hampson and Professor Charles Garraway as they draw on their impressive careers to...
An Introduction to RightsCast (with Lorna McGregor and Daragh Murray)
Welcome to RightsCast, a podcast about human rights, broadly understood. To begin the series, we bring you a discussion between Lorna McGregor and Dar...