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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 our panel explores the impact of new technologies on human rights, joi... Read more

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Organ Harvesting and Trafficking of Chinese Minorities

Organ Harvesting and Trafficking of Chinese Minorities

Until 2015, China harvested organs from prisoners on death row. The State has adopted an official policy that all organs... Read more

20 Oct 2019

13mins

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Can Human Rights Solve the Palestinian Question? (With Dr Ruba Salih & Odette Murray)

Can Human Rights Solve the Palestinian Question? (With Dr Ruba Salih & Odette Murray)

In this episode, we talk about occupation, refugee rights, and the status of Palestine. Are there systematic ways to rem... Read more

3 Feb 2018

1hr 2mins

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Bolsonaro and #NotHim: Something Old or Something New?

Bolsonaro and #NotHim: Something Old or Something New?

Everyone's asking, "How did he win? What does this mean for Brazil's future?" But Jair Bolsonaro's victory in the Octobe... Read more

24 Nov 2018

54mins

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Is Human Rights a Fable? (with Professor Samuel Moyn)

Is Human Rights a Fable? (with Professor Samuel Moyn)

Is Human Rights just a fable? To uncover this question, we venture down 'history' lane with Professor Samuel Moyn. What’... Read more

26 Mar 2018

53mins

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Are Human Rights Always “Good”? Or Are They Weaponized? (with Chase Madar)

Are Human Rights Always “Good”? Or Are They Weaponized? (with Chase Madar)

In this episode, we discuss the weaponisation of human rights, i.e. are human rights always "good"; or are they at times... Read more

9 Dec 2017

1hr 1min

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Bodies and Borders: Migration in the Digital Age

Bodies and Borders: Migration in the Digital Age

Technology is redefining the experiences of refugees and asylum seekers in this globalised world, whether it is artifici... Read more

30 Sep 2019

35mins

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Change in the Niger Delta: Oil Extraction, Greased Palms, and Petro-Capitalism

Change in the Niger Delta: Oil Extraction, Greased Palms, and Petro-Capitalism

This week’s episode explores how the petroleum industry in the Niger Delta takes place at the intersection of contentiou... Read more

6 May 2019

41mins

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Welcome to Season 4

Welcome to Season 4

In the first episode of this seasons' Declarations podcasts, the new team of panellists sets the stage for a discussion ... Read more

30 Oct 2019

34mins

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What Can Maps, Twitter, and the Crowd do for Human Rights? (with Sam Dubberley)

What Can Maps, Twitter, and the Crowd do for Human Rights? (with Sam Dubberley)

In this episode we will be talking about the use of mapping and social media technologies to conduct human rights work, ... Read more

11 Mar 2019

50mins

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A Right to Sleep: Homelessness and Temporary Housing

A Right to Sleep: Homelessness and Temporary Housing

The documentary “Cities of Sleep” explores the world of insurgent sleeper communities, as well as the infamous 'sleep ma... Read more

21 Jan 2019

50mins

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What is the 'Copenhagen Declaration'?(with Prof. Başak Çalı)

What is the 'Copenhagen Declaration'?(with Prof. Başak Çalı)

The Copenhagen Declaration - adopted April this year - unveiled tensions about the relationship between democracy and hu... Read more

7 Jul 2018

37mins

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PROFILE: Dr Alexa Koenig, Berkeley Human Rights Center

PROFILE: Dr Alexa Koenig, Berkeley Human Rights Center

Declarations went to Washington DC earlier this year to talk to researchers and practitioners who are dealing with disin... Read more

15 Jul 2018

36mins

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Do Borders Hide or Reveal Rights? (With Dr Monica Figueroa)

Do Borders Hide or Reveal Rights? (With Dr Monica Figueroa)

In this episode, we talk about race, racism, borders, and human rights. What kinds of borders are erected around the rig... Read more

21 Mar 2018

55mins

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Kashmir: Caught in the Crossfire

Kashmir: Caught in the Crossfire

In this episode we discuss the current human rights infringements taking place in the semi-autonomous state of Kashmir. ... Read more

22 Nov 2019

55mins

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Justice in Transition: Reclaiming Rights Within and Without States?

Justice in Transition: Reclaiming Rights Within and Without States?

In this special episode, we sat down with Jackson Odong of the Refugee Law Project, and Shama Ams from the Centre of Dev... Read more

6 Oct 2018

1hr 30mins

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External Borders, Internal Politics: What do Democracies owe Refugees? (With Lord Smith of Finsbury)

External Borders, Internal Politics: What do Democracies owe Refugees? (With Lord Smith of Finsbury)

In this episode we talked about external borders and internal politics, trying to get to grips with what democracies owe... Read more

16 Aug 2018

39mins

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Investigating Raqqa: Amnesty’s inquiry into the coalition’s military campaign (Special Episode)

Investigating Raqqa: Amnesty’s inquiry into the coalition’s military campaign (Special Episode)

From June to October 2017, the US-led Coalition launched an aggressive and highly destructive military campaign in Raqqa... Read more

7 Nov 2019

25mins

Ranked #18

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Weaponizing Walls: Trump, the Border, and Its Scars (with Dr. Ieva Jusionyte)

Weaponizing Walls: Trump, the Border, and Its Scars (with Dr. Ieva Jusionyte)

In this episode we discuss how the infrastructure of the US-Mexico border wall has become a weapon in and of itself. Sin... Read more

12 Sep 2019

49mins

Ranked #19

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Repeal the 8th: Developing a Rights Framework for Abortion?

Repeal the 8th: Developing a Rights Framework for Abortion?

In this episode, we are joined by Helen Jennings and Caitlin de Jode, who are organising a conference on ‘The Developmen... Read more

22 May 2018

59mins

Ranked #20

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Season 3: Memory, Community, Futures

Season 3: Memory, Community, Futures

Welcome to Season 3 of Declarations. This episode introduces our brand new team of regular panelists, as well as this ye... Read more

19 Nov 2018

11mins

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