Welcome to Season 4
In the first episode of this seasons' Declarations podcasts, the new team of panellists sets the stage for a discussion of some of the human rights issues that do not receive enough attention. The pod...
30 Okt 201934min
Organ Harvesting and Trafficking of Chinese Minorities
Until 2015, China harvested organs from prisoners on death row. The State has adopted an official policy that all organs must come from voluntary donations. Yet research suggests that there is a large...
20 Okt 201913min
Bodies and Borders: Migration in the Digital Age
Technology is redefining the experiences of refugees and asylum seekers in this globalised world, whether it is artificial intelligence (AI) being used to screen their immigration applications or mobi...
30 Sep 201935min
Weaponizing Walls: Trump, the Border, and Its Scars (with Dr. Ieva Jusionyte)
In this episode we discuss how the infrastructure of the US-Mexico border wall has become a weapon in and of itself. Since Trump’s campaign promise, “the wall” has captured onlookers’ horror and imagi...
12 Sep 201949min
Change in the Niger Delta: Oil Extraction, Greased Palms, and Petro-Capitalism
This week’s episode explores how the petroleum industry in the Niger Delta takes place at the intersection of contentious relations between multinational oil companies, the Nigerian nation-state, and ...
6 Maj 201941min
Special Episode: Launching 'Rhetoric Versus Reality in the War in Raqqa' (with Amnesty International)
In this episode, we speak with Donatella Rovera, Senior Crisis Advisor at Amnesty, Milena Marin, Senior advisor for Tactical Research, and Katya alkhateeb a senior researcher at the Essex Human Rights...
25 Apr 201940min
Race, Political Representation and Human Rights in the United Kingdom (with Simon Woolley)
In this episode we discuss the notion of a human rights-based approach to the socio-economic and cultural development of the UK, particularly in relation to race. The discussion explores the relations...
22 Apr 201926min
What Can Maps, Twitter, and the Crowd do for Human Rights? (with Sam Dubberley)
In this episode we will be talking about the use of mapping and social media technologies to conduct human rights work, both outside the field and inside the field (what has come to be known as “Open ...
11 Mars 201950min
