RightsCast

RightsCast

By RightsCastNews
Download on the App Store

RightsCast episodes

  • 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 areas of Jaywick and Clacton as places experiencing high levels of deprivation, where there is a sense among residents that they have been abandoned by the state.

    In this episode, Mitch Paquette is joined by a panel of human rights organisers and academics who have been working on poverty-related human rights issues within these communities. While noting the destructive impact of austerity measures on the social protection afforded to these communities, such as cuts to legal aid, our panellists explain how making use of the human rights ‘toolbox’ has proved to be an effective way of organising these disenfranchised groups and supporting a community-led effort to claim their economic, social and cultural rights.

    Rebecca Rocket is a Unite Community member and social justice organiser, Andrew Fagan is the Deputy Director of the Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex, and Lucy Davies is Housing Law Supervisor at the Essex Law Clinic. 

    You can read more about the issues discussed in this episode in this blogpost by Katya Al Khateeb https://hrcessex.wordpress.com/2019/08/29/human-rights-at-home/

    51 min
  • 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 discuss how human rights investigations are conducted, particularly within the framework of UN mandated fact-finding missions. The discussion also delves into a debate around the role of human rights courts in investigating violations in situations of armed conflict.

    Professor Francoise Hampson is an Emeritus Professor in the School of Law and Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex, and is currently a member of the UN Commission of Inquiry on Burundi. Professor Charles Garraway is a Fellow of the Human Rights Centre and is currently a member of the UN’s Group of Eminent Experts on Yemen.

    You can follow the Human Rights Centre blog at hrcessex.wordpress.com

    1 hr 10 min
  • 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 Daragh Murray as they set out their hopes for the podcast and offer some insight into what to expect from our upcoming episodes.


    Lorna McGregor is a Professor in the School of Law and is the Director of the Human Rights Centre. Daragh Murray is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Law and Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex.

    You can follow the Human Rights Centre blog at hrcessex.wordpress.com

    14 min
  • HRC Speaker Series "In Brief" with Professor Wayne Martin
    Speaker: Professor Wayne Martin, The Essex Autonomy Project
    Assessment of insight can play a significant role in determining whether psychiatric detention is extended or whether a detained patient is ready to be discharged into the community. In other words, the presence or absence of insight plays a significant role as a determinant of the human rights enjoyed by patients living with serious psychiatric (or ‘psycho-social’) disorders. Wayne and Polana review techniques that have been developed for the measurement of insight (aka ‘insight scales’), report on an EAP observational study of clinical discourse at locked psychiatric wards, and consider whether and how evidence about impaired insight should play a role in legal proceedings that determine a person’s human rights.
    Full Presentation: https://soundcloud.com/user-353409896/hrc-speaker-series-working-in-business-insights-from-an-in-house-human-rights-specialist-1
    Human Rights Centre Blog: https://hrcessex.wordpress.com/
    11 min
  • HRC Speaker Series "In Brief" with Tatiana Hardy-Stotz
    Speaker: Tatiana Hardy-Stotz, Human rights specialist for Vodafone Group
    Interviewer: Alexandra Ziaka, LLM International Human Rights Law candidate
    Following from the introduction of the Ruggie Principles, Tatiana Hardy-Stotz decided to make the transition from a career in refugee law to working with businesses in the area of human rights. Now a human rights specialist at Vodafone Group, Tatiana will reflect upon the opportunities and challenges of working within a corporate to effect meaningful change in the human rights space.
    Full Presentation: https://soundcloud.com/user-353409896/hrc-speaker-series-working-in-business-insights-from-an-in-house-human-rights-specialist-1
    Human Rights Center Blog: https://hrcessex.wordpress.com/
    6 min
  • HRC Speaker Series - Insight-Scales and Human Rights in Psychiatric Care
    Speakers: Professor Wayne Martin and Dr Polona Curk, The Essex Autonomy Project
    Chair: Professor Lorna McGregor, Human Rights Centre, University of Essex
    Date: November 27th, 2018
    Assessment of insight can play a significant role in determining whether psychiatric detention is extended or whether a detained patient is ready to be discharged into the community. In other words, the presence or absence of insight plays a significant role as a determinant of the human rights enjoyed by patients living with serious psychiatric (or ‘psycho-social’) disorders. Wayne and Polana review techniques that have been developed for the measurement of insight (aka ‘insight scales’), report on an EAP observational study of clinical discourse at locked psychiatric wards, and consider whether and how evidence about impaired insight should play a role in legal proceedings that determine a person’s human rights.
    Human Rights Centre Blog: https://hrcessex.wordpress.com/
    Essex Autonomy Project: https://autonomy.essex.ac.uk/
    Mental Health and Justice: https://mhj.org.uk/
    38 min
  • HRC Speaker Series - Working In Business- insights from an in-house human rights specialist
    Speaker: Tatiana Hardy-Stotz, Human rights specialist for Vodafone Group
    Chair: Anil Yilmaz Vastardis, University of Essex
    Date: December 4th, 2018
    In partnership with the Essex Business and Human Rights Project
    Following from the introduction of the Ruggie Principles, Tatiana Hardy-Stotz decided to make the transition from a career in refugee law to working with businesses in the area of human rights. Now a human rights specialist at Vodafone Group, Tatiana will reflect upon the opportunities and challenges of working within a corporate to effect meaningful change in the human rights space. She will cover the wide range of topics that in-house human rights teams work on, the differences of working in the private sector vs not for profits, as well opening up the floor for a Q&A with the audience.
    Human Rights Centre Blog: https://hrcessex.wordpress.com/
    45 min
  • Identity and Citizenship in Tunisia: The Situation of Minorities after the 2011 Revolution
    Silvia Quattrini - Middle East and North Africa Programmes Coordinator at Minority Rights Group International (MRG)
    This report, Identity and Citizenship in Tunisia: The Situation of Minorities after the 2011 Revolution, documents Tunisia’s achievements to date and also the significant rights gaps that many Tunisians, including its minority and indigenous populations, face. Drawing on interviews with community representatives and activists, as well as an extensive review of the available literature, legislation and media coverage, it explores the extent to which the Jasmine Revolution and the country’s subsequent democratic transition has benefited and included its minorities.
    Full report (English): https://minorityrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/MRG-Tunisia-briefing-Final-ENG-Nov-2018.pdf
    Full Report (Arabic):https://minorityrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/MRG-Tunisia-briefing-Final-ARABIC-Jan-2018.pdf
    9 min
  • HRC Speaker Series - Big data and policing: pre-crime, surveillance and technological oppression
    Speaker: Griff Ferris, legal and policy officer Big Brother Watch
    Chair: Daragh Murray, University of Essex
    Date: October 30th, 2018
    In partnership with the Human Rights Big Data and Technology Project
    The police are attempting to use new and often fundamentally authoritarian surveillance technologies - built using big data - to watch us, profile us, predict our actions, and decide whether we should go to prison and for how long. The use of such dystopian technology to monitor and control people has resulted in unjust and discriminatory police tactics reinforcing existing biases and widespread interference with people's fundamental rights.
    Human Rights Centre Blog: hrcessex.wordpress.com/
    Human Rights Big Data and Technology Project: https://hrbdt.ac.uk/
    49 min

About RightsCast

From the publisher's feed

RightsCast brings you discussion on a wide range of contemporary and enduring human rights issues from the University of Essex Human Rights Centre.