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Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, artist, educator, author and promoter of non-violence, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1980 for his defence of human rights in his native Argentina and throughout Latin America. In his talk he will reflect on the evolution ...
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Human rights, Disappearances, Debt and Free Trade in Argentina and Latin America: In Conversation with Nora Cortiñas and Beverly Keene
Nora Cortiñas (Co-founder of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo)
Beverly Keene (Director o...
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Activist Scholarship in Human Rights: New Challenges
Welcome and Introduction
Dr Corinne Lennox
(Associate Director of the Human Rights Consortium and Senior Lecturer at the School of Advanced Study, University of Lon...
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Activist Scholarship in Human Rights: New Challenges
Closing Panel: New Protection Tactics for Human Rights Defenders and Activist Scholars
Chair: Dr Aziz Choudry
(McGill University)
James Savage
(Progamme Office...
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Indigenous peoples, genocide and the stand-off at Standing Rock
An American Genocide
Professor Benjamin Madley
(UCLA)
This seminar aims to look into the historic genocide of indigenous peoples, the growing understan...
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Indigenous peoples, genocide and the stand-off at Standing Rock
Redefining Genocide
Dr Damien Short
(Human Rights Consortium)
This seminar aims to look into the historic genocide of indigenous peoples, the growing u...
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Indigenous peoples, genocide and the stand-off at Standing Rock
Indigenous peoples and Colonialism
Professor Colin Samson
(University of Essex)
This seminar aims to look into the historic genocide of indigenous peo...
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Book Launch: Reconciling Rwanda
Chair: Dr Catherine Gilbert
(Centre for Postcolonial Studies)
Dr Jennifer Melvin
(University of Roehampton)
Dr Jennifer Melvin introduces her new book: Reconciling Rwanda: Unity, N...
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Surveillance and Human Rights
Kirsty Brimelow QC
(Doughty Street Chambers)
Silkie Carlo
(Liberty)
Discussant: Dr Judith Townend
(Institute of Advanced Legal Studies)
Kirsty Brimelow QC specialises in interna...
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Solidarity or self-interest? The EU's common asylum policy - between politics and desperation
Madeline Garlick
(Guest Researcher)
The International Refugee Law Seminar Series is a core activity of the Refugee Law Initi...
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Critical Perspectives on the Security and Protection of Human Rights Defenders
Panel 2
Towards developing a critical and ethical approach for better recognising and protecting human rights defenders
Luis Enrique Eguren...
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Critical Perspectives on the Security and Protection of Human Rights Defenders
Welcome
Corinne Lenox
(Senior Lecturer in Human Rights and Associate Director of the Human Rights Consortium, School of Advanced Study)
In...
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Safety Zones in Countries of Origin: A Violation of International Law?
Dr Bríd Ní Ghráinne
(University of Sheffield)
In the post-Cold War era, the recognition of refugees was no longer seen as a political act highl...
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The Sustainable Development Goals: Whither Human Rights?
Corinne Lennox
(Senior Lecturer, Institute of Commonwealth Studies)
Priya Nath
(Global Policy and Advocacy Advisor [Post-2015] - VSO and Gender and Development ...
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Extreme Energy; a message from down under
Dr Mariann Lloyd-Smith
(Senior Policy Advisor, National Toxics Network/IPEN)
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The Naqab Bedouin: New Perspectives
Panel 1: Grassroots and international legal struggle
Chair: Mansour Nasasra, Ben Gurion University
Ahmad Amara
(New York University): Beersheba in historical Perspective: Otto...
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The Naqab Bedouin: New Perspectives
Panel 1: Grassroots and international legal struggle
Chair: Mansour Nasasra, Ben Gurion University
Sana Ibn Bari
(Association for civil rights in Israel): Legal Aspects in the ...
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The Naqab Bedouin: New Perspectives
Panel 2: Bedouin women's perspectives and the Prawer Plan
Chair: Richard Ratcliffe
(Oxford University)
Amal al-Sana al-Hjooj
(McGill University): Between community activism, w...
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The Naqab Bedouin: New Perspectives
Opening remarks
Sophie Richter-Devroe (Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter)
Carl Soderbergh (Minority Rights Group International)
Damien Short (Human Right...
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Lives in the Balance: Asylum Adjudication by the Department of Homeland Security in the United States
Prof. Philip Schrag Georgetown University Prof. Jaya Ramji-Nogales Temple University