We are delighted to launch RightsCast, a new podcast from the Essex Human Rights Centre, that is intended to bring you informed, interesting, and (relatively) informal discussion on contemporary and thematic human rights issues. Here’s what the blurb says: RightsCast brings you discussion on a wide range of contemporary and enduring human rights issues from […]
Month: October 2019
HR & Tech Weekly News Circular
Each week the Human Rights, Big Data & Technology Project, based at the University of Essex Human Rights Centre, prepares an overview of related news stories from the week. This summary contains news articles from 7-14 June 2019. You can follow the HRBDT Project on twitter: @hrbdtNews. Abuse Dark web child abuse: Hundreds arrested across 38 […]
Book Announcement
Routledge has just published a book by Dr. Raymond Smith directly based on his 2017 Essex LLM dissertation in IHR law, which was conducted with Dr. Julian Burger of the Human Rights Centre. The short e-book is entitled Extending International Human Rights Protections to Vulnerable Populations. A political scientist by training, Ray is an adjunct associate […]
HR & Tech Weekly News Circular
Each week the Human Rights, Big Data & Technology Project, based at the University of Essex Human Rights Centre, prepares an overview of related news stories from the week. This summary contains news articles from 7-14 June 2019. You can follow the HRBDT Project on twitter: @hrbdtNews. AIDS Global community pledges $14 billion to step up fight against […]
By Andrew Fagan This post addresses what may be identified as some of the more significant implications for human rights contained within two recent Ipsos global surveys. The first survey, conducted in 2018, studied attitudes towards human rights amongst over 23,000 adults in 28 countries. The second survey, conducted in 2019, sought to measure support […]