Refugee Rights and Lived Experience: How Can We Be Better at Integration?
On this episode, we discussed refugee rights in international and domestic contexts. We were joined by Sociology PhD student, Rabia Nasimi, who - drawing on her own experience - talked us through the ...
1 Des 201735min
The Right to Protest: Can Dissent Be Scripted Through Human Rights?
This week we spoke with Mbalenhle Matandela who was an active voice in the Right to Protest and Rhodes Must Fall campaigns in South Africa and is now a Rhodes scholar at Oxford. We discussed the vario...
23 Nov 201755min
Human Rights and Intervention: Do Local Contexts Matter? (With Dr Njoki Wamai)
In this episode, we talk about human rights and intervention, in the context of international institutions and their role in enforcing rights. Do local contexts matter? What are the everyday realities...
14 Nov 201754min
Is Reclaiming Cultural Heritage an Issue of Human Rights? (With Rodney Kelly)
What does cultural heritage mean, who can claim it, and what does it have to do with rights? With a significant number of artifacts on display in British museums having been removed from their origina...
7 Nov 201748min
Still I Rise: How Can the Language of Human Rights Challenge Injustice?
What do #TakeAKnee, #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatter have in common? In this episode, we explored ongoing debates surrounding the place of rights in redressing structural injustice. We talked about the l...
30 Okt 201735min
Season 2 Prelude: Protest, Subjugation and Technology
Welcome to the 2nd season of Declarations: The Human Rights Podcast. With every episode, we’ll be exploring contemporary debates about politics and human rights with people who study them, and people ...
23 Okt 20176min
Technology and Human Rights: Does Evidence Matter?
We can now take satellite pictures from the sky, get DNA samples on the scene and track moving networks of people through phones, laptops and other mobile technologies. With all this tech, human right...
31 Mai 201734min
Pussy Riot: Can Art Topple Tyrants? (with Pussy Riot's Maria Alyokhina)
“If you are doing political art, you can say goodbye to safety. Art is not about safety.” Pussy Riot activist Maria Alyokhina discusses how she’s used art to protest against authoritarianism in Russi...
25 Mai 201737min
