Syria and the Mediterranean Refugee Crisis: A Failure of International Responsibilities

Commentary, Dr Kurt Mills, Human rights, Immigration, Inequalities, International

By Dr Kurt Mills, Senior Lecturer in International Human Rights, Convenor of the Glasgow Human Rights Network The crisis of humanity we see in the Mediterranean and Europe is part of a much larger complex of issues related to how the international community deals with war, atrocities and humanitarian crises. The situation where hundreds of…

Podcast: Professor Sylvia Walby, UNESCO Chair of Gender Research, on the financial crisis in Europe

Austerity, Commentary, Democracy, EU and Brexit, Governance, Human rights, Professor Sylvia Walby

Professor Sylvia Walby, UNESCO Chair of Gender Research, University of Lancaster This podcast was recorded at the 2015 David Frisby Memorial Lecture held at the University of Glasgow. In this lecture, hosted by the Department of Sociology, Professor Walby, UNESCO Chair of Gender Research, University of Lancaster, discusses the financial crisis in Europe and its democratic,…