Declarations: The Human Rights Podcast
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Declarations: The Human Rights Podcast
A show about human rights coming to you every week from the Cambridge Centre of Governance and Human Rights. Tune in each week as we explore how the concept and practice of human rights can remain fit-for-purpose and co-evolve with the changing world order, joined by fascinating guests from the Un...
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Human Rights Volunteers: Lessons from Due Diligence during Qatar 2022
Join our host, Iman, in conversation with Lucy Amis from the University of Cambridge's Centre for Sport & Human Rights (CSHR), alongside our panellist...

Advancing Rights Through Protest & Revolution in Syria
Join guest host, Dounia, in conversation with Omar Alshogre as they discuss the relationship between activism and human rights in the context of the S...

Unlearning Gender-Based Violence
Join our guest host, Maryam, in conversation with special guest Salman Sufi, founder of the Salman Sufi Foundation, as they discuss gender-based viole...

Prisons, Captivity & Justice in India
Join our host, Iman, in conversation with special guests, Uma Chakravarti and Suchitra Vijayan, and our panellist Jigisha Bhattacharya, as they discus...

Protecting the Protector
In the 100th Episode of the Declarations Podcast, Iman is joined by special guest Lucia de los Angeles Diaz Genao and panellist Matias Volonterio to d...

Politics & Human Rights: With the Politics or Against the Politics?
In this episode of Declarations, our host Iman is joined by special guest Siri Gloppen and panellist Charlotte Abercrombie to discuss global democrati...

Human Rights: Of, By, For Which People?
In this episode, our host Iman is joined by special guest Tarah Demant and panellist Tess Hargarten to discuss the impact of Western hegemony on moder...

Season 8 Episode 1 - Introducing Horror, Hope & Human
Who are human rights for? Where is the 'human' in 'human rights'? What have we learned about human rights conceptually, as well as in practice, over t...

Season 7 Episode 9: Prioritising Human Rights in the Green Transition
In episode 9 Declarations host Neema Jayasinghe is joined by panellist Aimee Hobley and guest speaker Kristin Hughes. Their discussion explores the po...

Season 7 Episode 8: Voices from Across the Picket Lines
In this episode of Declarations, Neema Jayasinghe and panellist Isabella Todini sit down with Dr. Lorena Gazzotti, a research fellow at the University...

Season 7 Episode 7: Women peacebuilders in a conflicted world order.
In our seventh episode, host Neema Jayasinghe joins panellist Yasmin Homer to discuss the work of women peacebuilders with guests Eva Tabbasam (GAPS U...

Season 7 Episode 6: The Psychology of Border Violations in Mental Abuse
In our sixth episode, host Neema Jayasinghe is joined by previous podcast host and panellist, Dr Maryam Tanwir. With special guest, Professor Sam Vakn...

Season 7 Episode 5: ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’: Poetry and Protest in Iran
In this episode, panellist Clare Francis discusses the interplay of poetry and protest in the Iranian state with Dr. Fatemeh Shams, an activist, award...

Season 7 Episode 4: Lawfare: The Modern Version of Warfare
In this episode, host Neema Jayasinghe is joined by panelist Vanessa Dib to discuss developments of lawfare, the power of law being used as a weapon o...

Season 7 Episode 3: Privacy for Public Figures
In this episode, host Neema Jayasinghe is joined by panellist Olivia Chen and guest Professor Gavin Phillipson to discuss the legal connotations of pr...

Season 7 Episode 2: The policy that never took off: Assessing UK’s Rwanda Asylum Plan
This episode focuses on assessing the Rwanda Asylum Plan - UK’s most controversial migration policy in recent years. According to the proposal, 99 asy...

Season 7 Episode 1: The Race for Justice in Ukraine
In our first episode, host Neema Jayasinghe is joined by panellist Charlotte Duthie to discuss the contemporary race for justice in Ukraine with guest...

Season 7 Launch – Borders and Boundaries
In this first episode of Season 7, we gather our panelists to discuss the topics that will be on our minds this season. From boundaries of activism in...

Deepfakes and Non-Consensual Pornography
The Deepfake detection platform Sensity came out with a report in 2019 that 96% of Deepfakes on the internet are pornographic and 90% of those represe...

Artificial Intelligence: The ultimate threat to workers’ rights?
In this episode, host Maryam Tanwir and panelist Archit Sharma discuss the impact of technology on employment with our guests, Martin Kwan and Dee Mas...

Freedom of Expression and Internet Shutdowns in Pakistan
In this week’s episode of the Declarations podcast, host Maryam Tanwir sat down with Munizae and Sulema Jahangir to discuss freedom of expression and...

Biometrics and Refugees
In episode 5 of this season of the Declarations podcast, host Maryam Tanwir and panelist Yasar Cohen-Shah sat down with Belkis Wille, senior researche...

Empathy Games
For Episode 4 of this season’s Declarations podcast, host Maryam Tanwir and panelist Alice Horrell sit down with Karen Schrier, Associate Professor an...

Live Facial Recognition in the UK - The London Metropolitan Police’s trial
The third episode of this season of the Declarations Podcast delves into the topic of live facial recognition. Host Maryam Tanwir and panelist Veronic...

Fortress Europe
In this week’s episode, host Maryam Tanwir and panellist Yasmin Homer discuss the role of technology in the securitization of European borders with ME...

Predictive Policing with Johannes Heiler and Dr Miri Zilka
For this week’s episode, host Maryam Tanwir and panelist Nanna Sæten speak about predictive policing with Johannes Heiler, Adviser on Anti-Terrorism I...

Welcome to Season 6
The Declarations Podcast is back for its sixth season, where we will be exploring the relationship between new technologies and human rights! In this...

Kathleen Schwind: Water Security and How to ‘Ignite Your Story’
In our final episode of the season we are delighted to be joined by Kathleen Schwind. A 2015 Coca-Cola Scholar, Kathleen focuses her research on the i...

Foro Penal & Macro/Micro-Resistance in Venezuela, featuring Alfredo Romero
For this week's episode, host Muna Gasim and panelist Eddie Kembery speak to Alfredo Romero, one of the founding members of Foro Penal, a human rights...

Reporting on Human Rights in Yemen with Afrah Nasser
This week, host Muna Gasim and panellist Akshata Kapoor welcome journalist Afrah Nasser for an in-depth discussion on human rights reporting, bias, ge...

Counterterrorism & Human Rights in Conversation with Tom Parker
This week, host Muna Gasim welcomes guest Tom Parker, counterterrorism practitioner and former UN war crimes investigator, for a discussion about situ...

Thai Protests & The Fate of the Future Forward Party
This week, host Muna Gasim and panellist Neema Jayasinghe speak with Chamnan Chanruang from Thailand’s Future Forward party about the anti-monarchy pr...

Existential Risk, Climate Crisis & Indigenous Rights with Natalie Jones
For this week’s episode, host Muna Gasim and panellist Eddie Kemberry are joined by Natalie Jones, Research Associate at the Centre for the Study of E...

Human Rights in the Digital Space - A Conversation with Alina Utrata
For this week's episode, we are delighted to welcome Alina Utrata, a Ph.D. candidate in Politics and International Studies and a 2020 Gates Scholar at...

We Need to Talk: Hate Crime Response and Prevention with Alex Raikes
For this week's episode, host Muna Gasim and panellist Ashling Williams are joined by Alex Raikes, the Strategic Director of Stand Against Racism & In...

Dalit Rights Matter: The Fight for Equality and the Long Road Ahead
Our conversation this week turns to the question of Dalit rights in India, assessing the progress that has been made and what further change must come...

#NoRightsNoGames: The Uyghur Genocide & the Beijing 2022 Olympic Games
This week, host Muna Gasim and producer Sam Baron are joined by Zumretay Arkin, the Program and Advocacy Manager at the World Uyghur Congress, an umbr...

The #EndSARS Protests, Part 2: Women in Activism, Social Media, and the Road Ahead in Nigeria
This week, for the second in our two-part series focusing on the #EndSARS Movement, we are joined by three powerful activists working to end police br...

The Sudanese Revolution: Women’s Rights and the Power of Social Media
For our first episode of 2021, we return to the 2018-19 Sudanese Revolution that overthrew Omar al-Bashir and his National Congress Party. Joined by D...

We Need to Talk: The Climate Crisis with Daze Aghaji
The topic of conversation this week is the ongoing climate crisis and our urgent need to act. We are joined by the remarkable Daze Aghaji, a universit...