20th Anniversary for the MA in Understanding and Securing Human Rights

Important dispatch co-authored by our PhD candidate and MA alumna, Esther Ojulari, on the violence against protesters in Colombia:

Racism, Exclusion and State Violence: The Brutal Repression of Peaceful Protest in Colombia - Toward Freedom Rather than heeding the demands of the citizens against the tax reform and social injustice, Colombia has responded with militarization, turning peaceful demonstrations into scenes of war. Helicopters circle above protest points and communities, while tanks thunder through narrow city streets.

Dear alumni,
I have an update on the closure of the ICwS. Thanks to your lobbying, a new, high-level committee has been appointed to review the future of the Institute and Commonwealth studies at the University of London. They will report their recommendations by the end of June 2021. We remain hopeful that a sustainable plan for the ICwS can be found. More info on the committee, its mandate and how you can contribute are here:

Membership announced for “Committee on the Future of Commonwealth Studies” at University of London The University of London has confirmed the membership of a Committee to conduct an inquiry into the future of Commonwealth Studies at the University.

Dear MA alumni,

Thank you to all of those who have reached out to us on hearing the news that the School of Advanced Study is proposing to close the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and the Institute of Latin American Studies. If you believe that these institutes have been instrumental in your own education, research and advocacy work, please extend your support to saving them by signing these petitions or writing to the Dean of SAS, Professor Jo Fox ([email protected]):
ICwS http://chng.it/LZxpFKrLNy
ILAS: https://www.change.org/p/professor-jo-fox-and-professor-wendy-thomson-stop-the-closure-of-the-institute-of-latin-american-studies-sas-university-of-london?recruiter=1157615977&recruited_by_id=f26e2920-1125-11eb-9087-bb10aaafc331&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_abi&utm_term=psf_combo_share_abi

The MA in Understanding and Securing Human Rights is proposed to move to the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, along with the faculty, refugee studies programmes and distance-learning MA in Human Rights. The ICwS played a vital role in nurturing all of these teaching and research initiatives.

Sign the Petition Stop the closure of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study!

Today is graduation day at SAS! We are always happy to welcome back our MA and PhD graduates and to celebrate their achievements with family and friends! Well done to this year's class of 2019!

The special journal issue on the 10th Anniversary of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is now out! Edited by SAS staff and friends and including an article by our alum, Fumiya Nagai. Open access now for a short time!

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Our very own Professor David Cantor will be giving his inaugural lecture on "Are Refugees Special?"

4 June 2019, 6.00pm - 8.00pm

Venue
The Beveridge Hall, Ground Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

David would love to see some alumni there!

Please register in advance at:

Are Refugees Special? Why do we protect refugees? Is there something about refugees that singles them out for special attention? Does the refugee condition somehow make them deserving of the distinctive forms of assistance that they receive? For practitioners, policy-makers, academics, students and concerned citizens wor...

Important new report on slavery in the Commonwealth by MA alumna Stef Monaco:

www.humanrightsinitiative.org

World Toilet Day (19 Nov)! A great blog by an MA in Understanding and Securing Human Rights alum, Marcus Erridge, who is currently completing his PhD at the University of Coimbra:

Bathroom Discrimination: A Human Rights Violation Gender-based discrimination, public bathroom access, and the human right to sanitation in the USA MARCUS ERRIDGE

Excellent new blog about Professor Philip Alston's mission to the UK to investigate extreme poverty, drafted by current MA student, Kate Garner!

"An indispensable element of my mission": UN poverty envoy hears stories of poverty and discrimination in East London - Human Rights Consortium by Kate Garner Continuing his investigation into the impact of austerity in the UK, Philip Alston, the UN Special Rapporteur on poverty and human rights, heard moving testimonies from local people and organisations in Newham as they described their experiences of poverty and discrimination in the ca...

Calling alumni and friends! We need your help for a UDHR 70th anniversary project!

We want to hear from you: in one sentence, please tell us a general reason why human rights are still important, or a reflection on the value of human rights today in light of the 70 year anniversary of the UDHR.

More details here on how to reply:

Call for contributions: 70 Reflections on Human Rights 70 Reflections on Human Rights

Fascinating article on Indigenous Peoples' language rights by our MA alumna, Cheryl Bellisario, who studied on our Human Rights in Latin America Pathway:

Indigenous languages are essential - Talking Humanities Language is the main form of communication and expression between humans. But for Indigenous peoples, explains Cheryl Bellisario, an alumna of the School of Advanced Study’s MA in Understanding and Securing Human Rights, it is also intimately and fundamentally intertwined with culture, approaches ...