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How the Human Rights Centre is meeting the challenges of COVID-19 and the future of human rights

Dr Andrew Fagan, Director of the globally renowned Essex Human Rights Centre talks about the current human rights situation around the world, the contribution the HRC has made over the past two years, and, the future of Essex Human Rights graduates.

Dr Andrew Fagan

13 April 2022

Nazanin Zaghari Ratcliffe: Her journey to freedom and the lessons we can learn

Professor Carla Ferstman is a lawyer and an activist. Before joining the School of Law in 2018, she directed REDRESS, an organization dedicated to helping torture survivors in all parts of the world to seek justice for all the harm they suffered. That is where she first met Richard Ratcliffe, the husband of Nazanin Zaghari Ratcliffe who was released earlier this week on 15 March 2022 after almost six years of being kept as a hostage in Iran. I spoke to Carla to find out more about her perspective on Nazanin’s journey to freedom and to ask her what lessons we might be able to draw from her case.

Kate Clayton

18 March 2022

The welfare benefits system in the UK has historically favoured individuals who conform to gender stereotypes.

Laura Carter, Human Rights, Big Data and Technology

08 February 2022

This article explores two aspects of AI and COVID-19; where the technology is being used to detect, monitor, and control the spread of the virus; and the development of vaccines, diagnostic tools, and medical treatments.

Human Rights, Big Data and Technology

04 February 2022

Indigenous people, nature and land rights: why does it matter?

Professor Colin Samson and Dr Carlos Gigoux Gragmena from the Department of Sociology discuss how understanding the relationships between indigenous peoples and their lands has been at the heart of their research.

Professor Colin Samson, Dr Carlos Gigoux Gramegna

20 January 2022

MA Theory and Practice of Human Rights pathways

Specialise in one of several different and distinct pathways

Dr Andrew Fagan

11 January 2022

Why the UK government's plan to overturn court decisions is a bad idea

Why the UK government's plan to overturn court decisions is a bad idea

Lee Marsons, Professor Maurice Sunkin, Professor Theodore Konstadinides

22 December 2021

Nevermind at 30: why the Nirvana baby lawsuit is a warning for parents

Dr Alexandros Antoniou

16 November 2021

Professor Ahmed Shaheed

19 October 2021

Affordable housing is a myth that worsens the housing crisis - but there is a fix

Research student Rachel Joy Bosler explains why the Government's plan to ease the affordable housing crisis simply by building more houses won't work and gives her advice on what will.

Rachel Joy Bosler

06 October 2021

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