Revolutions and civilians
The recent revolutions in the Middle East raise questions about the enforceability of human rights norms during times of transition between one type of regime and another.
Promoting Responsible Innovation in Synthetic Biology to Improve Global Water Quality
Introducing a project to meet one of the Global Challenges of our time – ensuring the world has a steady supply of safe drinking water.
Film and the struggle for LGBT rights
Ahead of the series of events about LGBT lives in Russia and Lithuania, Marc David Jacobs of Edinburgh Film Guild New Cinema, discusses the way in which Russian and Lithuanian filmmakers have explored the experiences and challenges LGBT communities in Russia and Lithuania. This month, in Edinburgh and Glasgow, there is to be a series entitled LGBT…
Call for Papers: Human rights in uncertain times: global essons for and from Scotland
call for papers for The Glasgow Human Rights Network presents: Human Rights in Uncertain Times: Global Lessons for and from Scotland.
Event series: LGBT lives in Russia and Lithuania, 11-23 February 2014
A programme of screenings and talks presents a close glimpse into the state of LGBT cinema and culture in Russia and Lithuania today.
EVENT: LGBT equality and the geopolitics of human rights: insights from Russia
The Gender and Sexualities Forum, in association with Central and East European Studies and the Glasgow Human Rights Network, has announced the event: ‘LGBT equality and the geopolitics of human rights: insights from Russia’.
EVENT: The family, sexuality and human rights in global perspective, 23rd January
In a joint event hosted by the University of Glasgow Human Rights Network and the Gender and Sexualities Forum, three speakers from the School of Social and Political Sciences will launch three books in a discussion chaired by Dr Vikki Turbine (Politics). Date: 23rd January 2014 Dr. Roona Simpson (Sociology) will launch: ‘L. Jamieson and…
Migrants’ voice: new migrants experience of social security in Scotland
A new research project by the Glasgow Refugee, Asylum and Migration Network focuses on ‘Experiences of Social Security and Prospects for Long Term Settlement amongst Migrants from Central Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union’.
Human rights, sexual orientation and gender identity in the Commonwealth
Dr Matthew Waites talks about his new book, ‘Human Rights, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in the Commonwealth: Struggles for Decriminalisation and Change’.
I’m a migrant, get over it
Linda Ekblom Jacobsson writes about the Migrant Manifesto