When: Wednesday 12th October 2:30 – 4:30 pm
Where: United Reformed Church, Bromley (map)
Speaker: Jack Steele (Legal and Policy Officer at Reprieve)
The nature of human rights advocacy and its consequences for agency
Jack will be discussing the nature of human rights advocacy, how individuals perceive human rights, and how advocates make arguments in particular cases.
He will talk about the agency of the victims of human rights abuses, and how abuses are often the outcome of a high-level political dispute rather than an action absorbing the full detail and nuance of their situation.
He will discuss the potentially damaging role of heroism in human rights work and will touch on how human rights advocates approach universalism, whether universalism is useful in a human rights context, and what difference citizenship makes in individual cases, if any.
Reprieve is a legal action non-governmental organisation (NGO).
They are investigators, lawyers and campaigners fighting for justice, defending marginalised people who are facing human rights abuses, often at the hands of powerful governments.
You can find them on twitter here
