Human Rights

Avoiding Origin Deprivation–Episode 2

This discussion delves into the complex issue of original identity, exploring its significance and pondering how we might redefine or understand it in our rapidly changing world. We’ll also examine the human right to identity, questioning if such a concept truly exists, especially in the context of new reproductive technologies and varying familial structures.

Coping with Covid in Prison: The Impact of the Prisoner Lockdown

In this episode, Professor Phil Scraton is joined by Professor Shadd Maruna and Dr. Gillian McNaull to discuss their ESRC funded research project, Coping with Covid in Prison, commissioned by and conducted in partnership with the organisation User Voice.

Human Dignity in Cambodia

In this episode, Dr Rachel Killean, Prof. Chris McCrudden and Ms Boravin Tann discuss some of the challenges associated with defining human dignity and what they have learned so far about the concept’s diverse meanings in Cambodia.

Episode 76 – The origins of human rights at Queen’s: student activism, the study of human rights law and the Human Rights Centre

In this episode, Professor Tom Hadden and Professor Brice Dickson discuss the origins of human rights research at Queen’s.

Episode 66 – Women of Color and Human Rights

Dr Mark Hanna talks about Women of Colour and Human Rights with Dean Adrien Wing and Professor Anna Spain Bradley.

Episode 65 – Reparations for Conflict-Related Environmental Harm

Transitional Justice Series 1 – In this episode Dr Rachel Killean tells us about her recent article, ‘From ecocide to eco-sensitivity: ‘greening’ reparations at the International Criminal Court,’ published in The International Journal of Human Rights in 2020.

Episode 59 – ‘The Problems with Human Rights’

Dr Andrew Godden talks to Professor Brice Dickson about his Stephen Livingstone Lecture, ‘The Problems with Human Rights’