Human Rights Centre Blog
Spotlight regularly features a significant individual or team from the Human Rights community to answer questions put by students from the University of Essex. This month, we focus on an independent advocacy organisation, CAGE. CAGE campaigns against injustice and oppression, and fights on behalf of the victims of human rights violations around the world. The […]
Spotlight regularly features a significant individual or team from the Human Rights community to answer questions put by students from the University of Essex. This month, we talk to Fiona Watson of Survival International, and highlight the important work of the global movement for tribal peoples’ rights, About Fiona Fiona Watson is the Research and Advocacy […]
by Pauline Canham In focus China forces thousands of Tibetans into labour camps  More than half a million people in Tibet have been coerced by Chinese authorities into a labour program so far this year, moving rural labourers into ‘military-style’ camps to retrain them to work in factories in the textile and construction industries. […]
by Alana Meier and Amita Dhiman This week’s stories in focus: The Continued Plight of Rohingya Refugees On July 27 Malaysian authorities found twenty-six Rohingya refugees, including women and children, hiding on the northern islet off of Langkawi, Malaysia. The people were feared drowned and believed to have been transported by local fishermen from […]
Each month, the HRC Blog features a significant figure from the Human Rights community to go under the Spotlight, answering questions put by students from the University of Essex. This month, we feature Louise Melling. About Louise Louise Melling is a Deputy Legal Director at the ACLU and the Director of its Center for […]
by Sinéad Coakley All around the world, we are seeing the removal or modification of tangible cultural heritage, either by forceful means or by government action. This global debate was triggered by the abrupt and harrowing murder of George Floyd in the USA at the hands of a man employed by the state to protect […]
this article was originally posted on University of Essex News on 5th July 25 years ago this month, a genocide unfolded in Srebrenica. To mark Srebrenica Memorial Week, Essex Human Rights Centre has issued a statement and Members of the Centre have offered reflections. ***Trigger Warning: this report contains descriptions of sexual violence […]
This week’s stories in focus: China’s National Security Law comes into effect in Hong Kong By Pauline Canham Hundreds were arrested in Hong Kong on 1st July as thousands took to the streets to protest against China’s new security law.  The National Security Law, which came into effect at 11pm on 30th June, gives […]
Gautam Singh reflects on the transformation of his home country of India, the recent riots in Delhi and the impact on his own village My India I grew up in the small village of Jharkhand, India. My village has a population of almost 1200 people, half of them being Muslim, the other half Hindu, divided […]
In their response to the utterly premediated and brutal murder of nine African-Americans at prayer in Charleston, South Carolina gun lobby spokesmen repeated the formulaic mantra that the best way to avoid such catastrophes is not to restrict homicidal racists’ legal right to bear arms, but to ensure that their victims have unrestricted access to […]
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