Institute of Commonwealth Studies

Read the new piece written by PhD student Richard Dwomoh entitled 'China’s positive reporting trainings for ghanaian journalists: A boost to ‘balanced reportage’ in Ghana?'

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14648849241279049



Human Rights Consortium
School of Advanced Study - University of London

China’s positive reporting trainings for ghanaian journalists: A boost to ‘balanced reportage’ in Ghana? - Richard Dwomoh, 2024 While Ghana’s 1992 Constitution is said to have established watchdog journalism as an imperative feature of Ghana’s fourth republican dispensation, the independ...

ICwS Senior Research Fellow Professor Daya Thussu's new book 'Changing Geopolitics of Global Communication' is out now 👇👇👇

https://commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/news/changing-geopolitics-global-communication-professor-daya-k-thussu

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1 week left to apply for the MA Human Rights by distance learning programme!

September 2024 start. Apply by 19 August.

Designed and run by activist scholars based at the Human Rights Consortium, within the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, this practice-based online Master's builds the vocational skills you need to succeed as a human rights practitioner. It can also be studied as a Postgraduate Diploma or Postgraduate Certificate.

Apply here: https://www.london.ac.uk/study/courses/postgraduate/ma-human-rights

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School of Advanced Study - University of London

New blog post: 'Geopolitical Fault Lines: How AI Can Exploit Location to Fuel Misinformation' by PhD research candidate Michaela Jamelska.

Read more 👇👇👇 https://commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/blog/geopolitical-fault-lines-how-ai-can-exploit-location-fuel-misinformation



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School of Advanced Study - University of London

3 weeks left to apply for the MA Human Rights by distance learning programme!

September 2024 start. Apply by 19 August.

Designed and run by activist scholars based at the Human Rights Consortium, within the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, this practice-based online Master's builds the vocational skills you need to succeed as a human rights practitioner. It can also be studied as a Postgraduate Diploma or Postgraduate Certificate.

Apply here: www.london.ac.uk/courses/human-rights-ma

We've just sent out our Summer Newsletter!

You can read about all of the Institute's news and highlights over the last few months here: https://mailchi.mp/sas/icws-newsletter-summer-2024

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One month left to apply for the MA Human Rights by distance learning programme!

September 2024 start. Apply by 19 August.

Designed and run by activist scholars based at the Human Rights Consortium, within the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, this practice-based online Master's builds the vocational skills you need to succeed as a human rights practitioner. It can also be studied as a Postgraduate Diploma or Postgraduate Certificate.

Apply here: https://london.ac.uk/study/courses/postgraduate/ma-human-rights

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School of Advanced Study - University of London

In June 2024, Michaela Jamelska, a PhD research candidate at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies with a research focus on AI and human rights, received the Global Innovation Award: Women in AI from one of New York's Chambers of Commerce (Queens) at Citified in NYC, an event that brings together business, government, academia, and community leaders from around the world. This award recognises her ongoing efforts in the AI field through her technology development and academic research, highlighting the need for human rights-centric AI systems.

https://womeninaiglobal.mydurable.com/


School of Advanced Study - University of London
University of London
Human Rights Consortium

Director Professor Kingsley Abbott had an informative morning listening to High Commissioner of the Republic of to the United Kingdom Macenje Mazoka alongside Isabel Hilton, Dr Farah Faizal and Maud Sarlieve to discuss the role that universities should play in addressing the environment & climate crisis - including important perspectives from SIDS, & .
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On 29 February 2024 we, alongside the United Nations Association Westminster, hosted the conference “Dag Hammarskjöld's Plane Crash: The Continuing Search for Truth. Next Steps for the UN Commission of Inquiry”.

We have now published most of the papers and presentation recordings given at the event including the questions and answer sessions and the round table on our website here: https://commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/podcasts/dag-hammarskjolds-plane-crash-continuing-search-truth

Please feel free to circulate the link to others.

Dag Hammarskjöld’s Plane Crash: The Continuing Search for Truth The Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, in partnership with the United Nations Association Westminster, hosted a day-long conference on 29 February 2024 to review:

Posted • 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐩𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 “𝐆𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐥 𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐭𝐲’𝐬 𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐮𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐥𝐚𝐰 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐮𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐥𝐚𝐰. 𝐈𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐞 𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐞”

The annual conference’s programme of this year aims to take stock of and critically approach the current state of health of transnational bottom-up actions, proposals and strategies to support the multilateral regimes for international human rights law, international democracy, and peace, their norms, values and institutions.

The call for papers open to human rights scholars, researchers as well as Ph.D candidates is open. The deadline to submit the abstract is 30th September 2024 (midnight).

Go to the link in bio to read the call for paper and further info.

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Director Professor Kingsley Abbott spoke this morning with Anthony Finkelstein of City, University of London (and former Chief Scientific Adviser for National Security) opening the event “Shaping the future: rethinking the role universities play in international relations.”

During their discussion they covered everything from the multifaceted and interrelated crises the world is currently facing, engagement with China, the elections in the UK, the fact science and technology are increasingly at the heart of geopolitics, whether Universities are geopolitical actors themselves, to how they can better engage with policy makers in this environment.

The event continues today and tomorrow, read more here:

https://www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/events/knowledge-diplomacy-conference

Photo credit © Barry Smith


School of Advanced Study - University of London
University of London
Human Rights Consortium

Yesterday Director Professor Kingsley Abbott was privileged to receive a delegation from Thai Lawyers for Human Rights (TLHR) and a briefing on the human rights situation in the country from Sirikan Charoensiri.

https://tlhr2014.com/en/home



School of Advanced Study - University of London
University of London

Posted • Call for papers for this forthcoming conference from 11-12 November 2024 organised by the Human Rights Centre - University of Padova

The conference aims to take stock of and critically approach the current state of health of transnational bottom-up actions, proposals and strategies to support the multilateral regimes for international human rights law, international democracy, and peace, their norms, values and institutions.

We’re proud to be event partners alongside the School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, the UNESCO Chair in Human Rights and Human Security at the University of Graz, and the Institute of International Studies of the University of Wroclaw.

Deadline: 30 September 2024.

Learn more here: https://bit.ly/HRResearchConference2024

Call for papers for this forthcoming conference from 11-12 November 2024 organised by the Human Rights Centre - University of Padova.

The conference aims to take stock of and critically approach the current state of health of transnational bottom-up actions, proposals and strategies to support the multilateral regimes for international human rights law, international democracy, and peace, their norms, values and institutions.

We're proud to be event partners alongside the School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, the UNESCO Chair in Human Rights and Human Security at the University of Graz, and the Institute of International Studies of the University of Wroclaw.

Deadline: 30 September 2024.
Learn more here: https://bit.ly/HRResearchConference2024



Institute of Commonwealth Studies
School of Advanced Study - University of London
University of London

Come along to our webinar TODAY at 2pm UK time to hear from the Programme Director and learn about studying human rights at the School of Advanced Study, University of London and University of London

https://universityoflondon.ivent-pro.com/events/ma-human-rights-webinar-thursday-27-june-14-00-15-00-bst/login

MA Human Rights If you want to become a successful human rights practitioner and benefit from the expertise of the Human Rights Consortium, our online master's in Human Righ...

Interested in studying human rights?

Register now for our live webinar this THURSDAY to hear all about hear all about our Human Rights programmes - MA, PGDip and PGCert offered by distance learning.

Thursday 27 June 2024, 14:00-15:00 BST
Register here: https://www.london.ac.uk/news-events/events/refugee-day-thursday-27-june

Hear directly from the Programme Director, Dr Corinne Lennox, and current students, as they answer questions about the programme.

You can also watch a new video about the Programme here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFUCjLsEGwI




School of Advanced Study - University of London
University of London

MA Human Rights If you want to become a successful human rights practitioner and benefit from the expertise of the Human Rights Consortium, our online master's in Human Righ...

There is still time to register for our webinar THIS THURSDAY! Learn more and register here: https://universityoflondon.ivent-pro.com/events/ma-human-rights-webinar-thursday-27-june-14-00-15-00-bst/login

Interested in studying human rights?

Register now for this forthcoming live webinar to hear all about our Human Rights programmes - MA, PGDip and PGCert offered by distance learning.

Thursday 27 June 2024, 14:00-15:00 BST

Hear directly from the Programme Director, Dr Corinne Lennox, and current students, as they answer questions about the programme.

Register here: https://www.london.ac.uk/news-events/events/refugee-day-thursday-27-june

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School of Advanced Study - University of London

The deadline to apply for the Senior Lecturer in International Human Rights role is TOMORROW so please share with any interested candidates 👇👇👇https://www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?isPreview=Yes&jobid=2810

Senior Lecturer in International Human Rights:London Senate House - Hybrid One of the oldest and largest universities in the UK – and the most diverse. Established by Royal Charter in 1836, the University is recognised globally as a world leader in Higher Education. We are a federal institution consisting of 18 self-governing Colleges of outstanding reputation and a numb...

Here are our Human Rights students at the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva where they heard from experts on gender equality, Indigenous peoples’ rights and the human rights economy.

Our Human Rights students, accompanied by Human Rights Consortium Co-Directors, Dr Corinne Lennox and Professor Damien Short, are currently on the annual Geneva Study Tour which corresponds with the 56th Session of the Human Rights Council.

https://www.ohchr.org/en/hr-bodies/hrc/regular-sessions/session56/regular-session



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School of Advanced Study - University of London

🎇 Exciting Opportunity in Human Rights Practice & Academia in London 🎇

A new unique, full-time role has just been created here at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study

Senior Lecturer in International Human Rights
https://www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?isPreview=Yes&jobid=2810
CLOSING DATE - THIS FRIDAY!!!!

Based in London, this is not a traditional academic role - it will suit an experienced human rights practitioner interested in working in the space between academia and human rights practice/policy within a leading University.

The opportunity is to join our growing team of outstanding academics, practitioners and fellows to engage with everything the Institute does from implementing programs in the UK and around the world, to teaching a ground-breaking MA in human rights practice.

We are looking for someone with an entrepreneurial working style who thrives when implementing a broad range of human rights and policy projects (including internationally), developing new areas of work, and engaging with the full spectrum of stakeholders from human rights defenders to policy makers and our many partners.

It is an exciting time, as the Institute, which houses the Human Rights Consortium research stream, is in a period of growth with new projects underway and being developed, including in three main focus areas:

1. Strengthening the rule of law;
2. Combatting climate change; and
3. Promoting freedom of expression and digital rights.

Some key projects include working with the International Commission of Jurists and The Commonwealth on a human rights approach to criminal law in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean as part of the global campaign to decriminalise poverty and status; looking at the impact of emerging technologies on international relations; and developing work around climate and environmental justice - and ecocide.

Applicants should be able to support the taught masters programme in understanding and securing human rights.

Opportunities for PhD supervision are available (training can be offered).

A PhD is not required.

Please share with those who may be interested.



School of Advanced Study - University of London
University of London

Senior Lecturer in International Human Rights:London Senate House - Hybrid One of the oldest and largest universities in the UK – and the most diverse. Established by Royal Charter in 1836, the University is recognised globally as a world leader in Higher Education. We are a federal institution consisting of 18 self-governing Colleges of outstanding reputation and a numb...

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Early Career Research Fellowship: Inclusion, Participation and Engagement.

The School of Advanced Study - University of London has been awarded funding to scope a programme of activities embedding inclusion, participation and engagement in research in the Humanities and in Human Rights.

Deadline: 19 June 2024

As a result, we are able to offer up to five early career fellowships in the following areas: languages, literatures, and cultures, in association with the Institutes of Classical Studies, English Studies, and Languages, Cultures and Societies; and human rights and policy, in association with the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study.

Learn more: https://commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/fellowships/early-career-fellowships-inclusion-participation-and-engagement

Early Career Fellowships: Inclusion, Participation and Engagement The School of Advanced Study has been awarded funding to scope a programme of activities embedding inclusion, participation and engagement in research in the Humanities and in Human Rights. As a result, we are able to offer up to five early career fellowships in the following areas: languages, liter...

At the relaunch of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies on 25 April 2024, we celebrated our 75th Anniversary by honouring the Institute’s rich history and setting out a new, forward-looking, vision to bring people together to address the challenges facing the world and the modern Commonwealth.

We were delighted to have HRH The Princess Royal, Chancellor of the University of London, speak at the event, alongside Dr Farah Faizal, Former High Commissioner of the Maldives, and the Institute’s Director, Professor Kingsley Abbott.

You can now hear their speeches and view pictures, posters and interviews from the event on our website here: https://commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/about-us/relaunch-institute-commonwealth-studies

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School of Advanced Study - University of London
University of London

On 5 and 6 June 2024, the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study and its partners, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) and the Commonwealth Secretariat (ComSec) held an Africa regional consultation on a human rights-based approach to criminal law with stakeholders in Nairobi, Kenya.

The consultation took place as part of a joint project to produce a Practitioner’s Guide on a human rights-based approach to criminal law, including on ways to further the decriminalisation of poverty, homelessness and status.

Read more here: https://commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/news/a-human-rights-based-approach-criminal-law-africa-regional-consultation


School of Advanced Study - University of London
University of London

A human rights-based approach to criminal law: Africa regional consultation On 5 and 6 June 2024, the Institute of Commonwealth Studies (ICwS) and its partners, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) and the Commonwealth Secretariat (ComSec), held an Africa regional consultation on a human rights-based approach to criminal law with stakeholders in Nairobi, Kenya.

New blog post on 'Digital diplomacy with Chinese characteristics' 👇 👇

Read more here: https://commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/blog/digital-diplomacy-chinese-characteristics

Dr Corinne Lennox will be joining a distinguished panel tomorrow on 11 June 2024 at 13:00 BST to discuss 'Carving out a norm at the UN on the rights of communities discriminated on work and descent'.

She will be sharing some insights from her book "Transnational Social Mobilisation and Minority Rights" (Routledge 2020) where she has compared the agency and 'norm entrepreneurship' of Indigeneous Peoples, Roma, People of African Descent and Dalits to assert their rights claims at the regional and global levels through common strategies.

There will then be a roundtable discussion on the growing movement of communities united on the basis of discrimination on work and descent, which includes caste and analagous systems in Asia, Europe, Africa and Latin America.

We thank the Global Forum of Communities Discriminated on Work and Descent (GFoD) and their many partners for hosting this important discussion.

Register here: https://tinyurl.com/h9kztas

Interested in studying human rights?

Register now for this forthcoming live webinar to hear all about our Human Rights programmes - MA, PGDip and PGCert offered by distance learning.

Thursday 27 June 2024, 14:00-15:00 BST

Hear directly from the Programme Director, Dr Corinne Lennox, and current students, as they answer questions about the programme.

Register here: https://www.london.ac.uk/news-events/events/refugee-day-thursday-27-june

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School of Advanced Study - University of London

This week the Institute of Commonwealth Studies is in with the International Commission of Jurists and The Commonwealth consulting with stakeholders from the region on the of , homelessness and status as part of a based approach to .

University of London
School of Advanced Study - University of London