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Public events are a key part of the Centre’s activities, providing a critical and scholarly forum for discussion and debate. Through public lectures, seminars and conferences, the Centre enables scholars, practitioners, journalists and policy makers from the public, private, commercial and non-governmental sectors to examine critical issues in the field of human rights. Our events are open to all with no ticket or reservation required, unless otherwise stated.

Forthcoming Events

Speaking Out: Academic Freedom in the 21st Century
LSE Scholars at Risk Scheme in partnership with the Council for Assisting refugee Academics
Tuesday 23 March, 1 - 2.30pm
 

2010

Anniversary: An act of memory - part of the LSE Space for Thought Literary Festival
Recitations from individual and collective memory of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Saturday 13 February 2010

2009

Broke: Voices from the Edge - performance by Ice and Fire
UN International human rights day event, in partnership with iceandfire
Thursday 10 December 2009

Field Notes: Human Rights Defenders speak
In partnership with Human Rights Watch
Thursday 12 November 2009

Rwandan Courage and Survival - exhibition in partnership with SURF and LSE Arts
9 November -18 December 2009
Atrium Gallery, Old Building, LSE

Torture and Accountability: Where does President Obama go from here?
Karen Greenberg and Professor Philippe Sands
In partnership with LSE Ideas
Tuesday 3 November 2009

Human Rights in the 21st Century
Professor Noam Chomsky, Sir Howard Davies (chair)
Thursday 29 October 2009

Annual MSc Human Rights alumni event:
Human Rights after Darwin: Is a general theory of human rights now possible?
Professor Conor Gearty, Dr Sigrid Rausing (chair)
Thursday 7 May 2009
 

2008

Human Rights Day Event: The Right of Rights 1948-2008
Shami Chakrabarti, Jonathan Cooper, Professor Conor Gearty, Baroness Helena Kennedy QC Professor Francesca Klug, Professor Peter Townsend and Professor Laurie Taylor (chair)
4 December 2008

An Address by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (in partnership with the International Humanitarian Law Project)
Navanethem Pillay, Professor Christine Chinkin (chair)
12 November 2008

Field Notes: human rights defenders speak (In conjunction with Human Rights Watch UK)
Sunila Abeysekera, Fred Abrahams, Sarah Leah Whitson and Margo Picken (chair)
10 November 2008

The International Criminal Court ten years on: An appraisal
Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court and Professor Gerry Simpson (chair)
7 October 2008

Documenting Disappearance: Algeria, state terrorism and the photographic image - in partnership with Autograph ABP
Dr Anthony Downey, Nassera Dutour and Tom O Mara
15 May 2008

Religious faith and human rights - Centre for the Study of Human Rights Alumni Event with the Forum on Religion
Dr Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury
1 May 2008

Humans & Habitats: rethinking rights in an age of climate change
Conference in partnership with Friends of the Earth, Human Rights Watch and the Guardian
26 April 2008

Human Rights and Empire - in partnership with Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities
Professor Costas Douzinas, Professor Paul Gilroy and Professor Anne Phillips FBA (chair)
5 March 2008

2007

Human Rights Day Lecture: Human rights in the 21st century: problems and prospects
Kenneth Roth, Executive Director of Human Rights Watch, and Dorothy Q. Thomas (chair)
6 December 2007

Intolerance in the Ivory Tower: the threat to the free speech of scholars (In association with the Council for Assisting Refugee Academics and Index on Censorship)
Ilan Pappé,
Kuyok Abol Kuyok, Kate Robertson and Professor George Gaskell (chair)
29 November 2007

Iraq and the law: what went wrong?
Rabinder Singh QC, Professor Christine Chinkin (chair)
14 November 2007

Field Notes: human rights defenders speak (In conjunction with Human Rights Watch UK)
Mandira Sharma, Arnold Tsunga and Dr Jenny Kuper (chair)
6 November 2007

Marking a new era for equality and human rights in Britain
Trevor Phillips, Francesca Klug OBE, Baroness Jane Campbell DBE and Professor Conor Gearty (chair)
25 October 2007

Human Rights: Environmental security and human development in Africa
H.E. Paul Kagame, President of the Republic of Rwanda, and Professor Conor Gearty (chair)
4 October 2007

Do war crime trials do more harm than good?
Richard J Goldstone, Leslie Vinjamuri, Anthony Dworkin, and Professor Conor Gearty (chair)
3 May 2007

Mental Health - A new frontier for human rights protection?
Professor Peter Bartlett, Professor Jill Peay, Professor Nikolas Rose (chair), George Szmukler
8 March 2007

Negotiating Justice: Human rights and peace agreements - with the Transitional Justice Institute and International Council on Human Rights Policy
Professor Christine Bell, Professor Colm Campbell, Professor Conor Gearty, Susan McCrory (chair)
March 2007

Testing New Medicines: humans for sale
Professor John Abrahams, Professor Richard Ashcroft, Dr Sarah Edwards
15 February 2007

Legal Aid: human right or mere luxury?
Carol Harlow, Roger Smith and Sir Geoffrey Bindman (chair)
January 2007

2006

Human Rights Day lecture: some old truths and necessary new directions
Professor Manfred Nowak, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture
7 December 2006

Can Human Rights Survive?
Shami Chakrabarti, Professor Kim Economides (chair) Professor Conor Gearty, Gavin Phillipson, Professor William Twining
16 November 2006

Field Notes: Human Rights Defenders Speak - with Human Rights Watch UK
Salih Mahmoud Osman, Beatrice Were, Iain Levine
November 2006

Refugee Solutions or Solutions to Refugeehood
James C Hathaway
October 2006

Human rights in the 21st Century: the case of China
Brad Adams, Bruce Gilley, Yiyi Lu
23 October 2006

Refugee Solutions or Solutions to Refugeehood
James C Hathaway, introduced by Leslie Vinjamuri
Tuesday 17 October 2006

Reproduction: an issue of human rights
Dr Debora Spar, Dr Stephen Minger
3 October 2006

Private military/security companies operating in situations of armed conflict: a gap in human rights and humanitarian law?
Andy Bearpark, Dr Chaloka Beyani, Emanuela-Chiara Gillard
May 2006

Using Video for Change: WITNESS’ model for human rights advocacy
Sam Gregory, WITNESS
April 2006

Prosecuting Pinochet: the challenges and obstacles to the pursuit of justice in Chile
Professor David Sugarman
March 2006

The human rights of persons with disabilities: extending freedom to all
Anna Lawson, Professor Helen Meenan, Dr Nick O'Brien
March 2006

Protecting human rights in an age of uncertainty
Louise Arbour, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
February 2006

Trying Saddam and other dictators – the limits of justice
Kirsten Sellars
February 2006

Why the human rights and environmental movements must be allies not adversaries
Michael Meacher MP, David Wolfe
January 2006

2005

Human Rights Day Balloon Debate: who is the greatest of the 20th century?
Shami Chakrabarti, Jonathan Cooper, Professor Conor Gearty, Professor Francesca Klug, Andrew Puddephatt, Professor Peter Townsend
December 2005

Human Rights and Non-judicial Remedies - The European Ombudsman's Perspective
Professor Nikiforos Diamandouros
November 2005

Fieldnotes: human rights defenders speak (in conjunction with Human Rights Watch UK)
Habib Rahiab; Maitre Honore Musoko; Natalia Zhukova
November 2005

Can Human Rights Survive? The Crisis of Authority
Hamlyn Lecture series
Professor Conor Gearty
November 2005

Respect for human rights is essential to economic development
Phil Bloomer, His Excellency Mr Isaac Osei, Alex Singleton, Professor Shujie Yao
October 2005

A New International Legal Order?: The challenge for International Law post 9/11
Phil Shiner, Rabinder Singh QC
October 2005

Equity, protection and the incitement to religious hatred
Dr Derek McGhee
May 2005

Torture: the ultimate abuse of human rights?
Alain Aeschlimann, Victoria Brittain, Professor Chris Brown, Sir Nigel Rodley
May 2005

Britain in 2005 – is there any access to justice for asylum seekers and migrants?
Maurice Wren; Sarah Cutler; Richard Stanton
April 2005

Staging human rights in prison
Professor Paul Heritage, Queen Mary, University of London
March 2005

Equality and human rights: sibling companions or false friends?
Trevor Phillips, Chair, Commission for Racial Equality
March 2005

Human rights under attack
David Lammy MP
February 2005

Britain's proposed new equality and human rights commission
Professor Francesca Klug
February 2005

Reducing poverty: how human rights can help
Pierre Sané, UNESCO
January 2005

2004

Rights behind bars: the conditions and treatment of those in detention
Anne Owers, HM Chief Inspector of Prisons
December 2004

Doing Justice to the Dead
Lincoln Crawford OBE; David Ould, Dr John Torpey
November 2004

Human rights and impunity in Columbia
Father Javier Giraldo
November 2004

Human rights and democracy is a state of transition: how the Czech Republic has fared
Gabriela Dlouhá, David French and Tomáš Pojar
October 2004

Field Notes: an exploration of the methodology of human rights monitors
In conjunction with Human Rights Watch UK
October 2004

Is the idea of human rights now doing more harm than good?
Professor Conor Gearty
October 2004

Compensation for Land Acquisition of Tribals: the promise of law and a lawyer’s perspective of the reality
Anoop Kumar Mehta
June 2004

Human Rights and Humanitarian Law in Occupied Iraq: current problems and future prospects
Professor Christopher Greenwood QC, Professor Françoise Hampson, Professor Philippe Sands QC, Professor Ruth Wedgwood
May 2004

Human Rights for Women: liberation or mere rhetoric?
Baroness Helena Kennedy QC
March 2004

Why isn't education free? Human Rights responses to commercialisation and indoctrination
Professor Katarina Tomasevski
February 2004

Freedom in Blair's Britain
Shami Chakrabarti, Director of Liberty
February 2004

Human Rights, Civil Liberties And Democracy: ideas in conflict or in partnership?
Professor Conor Gearty; Professor Francesca Klug; Andrew Puddephatt
January 2004

2003

International Human Rights Day 2003
Irene Khan, Secretary General of Amnesty International
December 2003

Non-State actors under international human rights law
Professor Robert McCorquodale
Chair: Dr Gerd Oberleitner
November 2003

Economics and Human Rights: common ground or continual conflict?
Professor Timothy Besley; Professor Geraldine Van Bueren; Mr Alfredo Sfeir-Younis
November 2003

Free speech, Human Rights and Western Values?
Ursula Owen; Andrew Puddephatt
Chair: Dr Matthew Engelke
October 2003

Field Notes: An exploration of the methodology of human rights monitors
In conjunction with Human Rights Watch UK
Chair: Professor Conor Gearty, Director of the Centre for the Study of Human Rights
October 2003

The European Convention 50 years on
Brian Simpson, University of Michigan Law School
October 2003

Coping with the Weapons of Tomorrow: ethics and rules
Panel discussion, moderated by Sheena McDonald and chaired by Professor Conor Gearty
May 2003

Immigration Detention in the UK - children and vulnerable people
Bail for Immigration Detainees
May 2003

Human Rights in the Indian Tradition: the quest for a universal model
Professor M P Singh
May 2003

Enforcement of Economic and Social Rights
Justice Albie Sachs
February 2003

Human Rights in Africa
Bronwen Manby
February 2003

Guantanamo - a challenge to international human rights
Louise Christian; Andrew Coyle; Gerry Simpson
February 2003

Equality and the Canadian Charter of Rights
The Honourable Claire L’Heureux-Dubé, Former Justice, Supreme Court of Canada
February 2003

Terrorism, morality and human rights
Rabinder Singh QC; Professor Conor Gearty
January 2003

2002

Protecting Human Rights in an anti-terrorist world
Hina Jilani, UN Special Representative for Human Rights Defenders
December 2002

Seminar by Noam Chomsky
December 2002

World Poverty: New Policies to Defeat an Old Enemy
Peter Townsend; David Gordon; Nazneen Kanji
November 2002

Parliament and Human Rights in the UK: Two Years On
Jean Corston, MP; David Feldman; Francesca Klug
November 2002

From Rhetoric to Reality: making human rights work
Mary Robinson, former UN High Commissioner on Human Rights
October 2002

Human rights in the UK: from political aspirations to binding legal norms
Professor David Feldman, Legal Advisor to HOP Joint Committee on Human Rights
October 2002

Field Notes: An exploration of the methodology of human rights monitors
In conjunction with Human Rights Watch UK
Chair: Professor Conor Gearty, Director of the Centre for the Study of Human Rights
October 2002

Discourses of truth, trauma and reconciliation in post-conflict societies: psychologising the Nation
Brandon Hamber
October 2002

The Return of the Native: A Critique of the Indigenous Rights Movement
Speaker: Professor Adam Kuper, Brunel University Chair: Professor Stan Cohen, LSE
June 2002

Gender Equality and Multiculturalism: Competing Equality Claims?
Professor Anne Phillips
May 2002

The Law of War in the Age of Terror
Panel discussion, moderated by Robin Lustig, BBC Radio and chaired by Professor Fred Halliday
May 2002

Sex Equality, Entitlements, and the Capabilities Approach
Martha Nussbaum, Professor of Law and Ethics, University of Chicago Law School
March 2002

Discordant notes: the problem of war crimes trials
Speaker: Mr. Gerry Simpson, LSE
Chair: Professor Christine Chinkin, LSE
February 2002

Human rights and cultural relativism
Speaker: Professor Steven Lukes
Chair: Professor Stan Cohen, LSE
January 2002

2001

Coercive versus non-coercive implementation of international human rights
Speaker: Professor Jack Donnelly, University of Denver
Chair: Francesca Klug, Centre for the Study of Human Rights, LSE
December 2001

Coercive versus non-coercive implementation of international human rights
Professor Jack Donnelly, University of Denver
December 2001

11 September: Human Rights Dimensions
Human Rights symposium
Professor Christine Chinkin, Professor Roger Silverstone, Dr Kate Malleson, Professor Fred Halliday
November 2001

Hate speech, controversy and intolerance: Durban and beyond
Speaker: Claudio Cordone, Amnesty International
Chair: Professor Fred Halliday, Centre for the Study of Human Rights, LSE
October 2001

Hate speech, controversy and intolerance: Durban and beyond
Claudio Cordone, Amnesty International
October 2001

Human rights monitors: field notes
In conjunction with Human Rights Watch UK
Chair: Professor Fred Halliday, Centre for the Study of Human Rights
October 2001

A Rule of Law for the International community: Is it achievable?
In conjunction with Human Rights Watch UK
Judge Richard Goldstone, Chairman of the Independent International Commission on Kosovo
June 2001

Hate speech and Xenophobia
In conjunction with Index on Censorship
Professor Kevin Boyle; Nick Fraser; Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
June 2001

Asylum and Refugee Rights: 50 years on
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Speaker: Rachael Reilly, Human Rights Watch
June 2001

Human Rights: Cause of, or cure for, the 'moral crisis' in liberal democracies?
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Francesca Klug, Human Rights Research Unit, Kings College, London
May 2001

Preventing deadly conflict: The role and responsibility of governments and NGOs
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Hon Gareth Evans AO QC, President, International Crisis Group
February 2001

2000

2000 International criminal justice: Is it really so needed in the present world community?
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Antonio Cassese, Professor of International Law at the European University Institute
November 2000

1999

Human rights, the prevention of conflict and the international protection of minorities: a contemporary paradigm for contemporary challenges
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Max van der Stoel, High Commissioner on National Minorities, OSCE
October 1999

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