MANCHESTER STANDS UP FOR HUMAN RIGHTS

A CELEBRATION OF 70 YEARS OF THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND HOW WE STAND UP FOR THEM IN GREATER MANCHESTER

12 NOVEMBER 2018 ST PETER’S HOUSE, MANCHESTER

@UNHumanRights | @OfficialUoM| @UoMHumsSR | @SocialResponUoM #Manchester | #Standup4humanrights MANCHESTER HAS ALWAYS BEEN A HUB FOR THE PROMOTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND PEOPLE’S DIGNITY.

Thanks to the Universal To highlight what the Universal Declaration The people of Manchester campaigned Our University’s strategic goal of social means for people in their everyday lives, for universal suffrage at Peterloo and responsibility is unique amongst higher Declaration of Human Rights, UN Human Rights launched a year-long specifically for women’s suffrage through education, and defines how we make and States’ commitments to its campaign on Human Rights Day 2017 that Emmeline Pankhurst and the Women’s a difference through our research, our principles, the dignity of millions culminates in the actual occasion of the Social and Political Union; the Rochdale teaching and our contribution to the world Declaration’s 70th anniversary celebration Pioneers launched the first cooperative around us, both local and global. has been uplifted, untold human on 10 December 2018. store, a revolution which spread worldwide; Our researchers in the Faculty of Humanities suffering prevented and the the Trades Union Congress was founded The campaign has three core objectives: produce cutting-edge academic and policy in Manchester to instigate and protect foundations for a most just to promote, engage and reflect. Our aim studies on fundamental rights which worker’s rights; and Greater Manchester is to engage a broad base of audiences the inform the public debate and impact on world have been laid. and Lancashire mill workers took a principled world over; to help promote understanding the rights of some of the most vulnerable stand against slavery by refusing to touch While its promise is yet to be of how the Universal Declaration people in society. raw cotton picked by US slaves. empowers us all; and encourage further fulfilled, the very fact that it As a higher education institution, we have reflection on the ways that each of us can When the National Health Service was the prestigious role of contributing to the has stood the test of time is stand up for rights, every day. founded 70 years ago, the first hospital was education of future generations of leaders testament to the enduring here as a guarantee of public access to The anniversary is a chance for the world – shaping their values, their motivations, health. Manchester formed the foundation universality of its perennial to celebrate the gift of the Universal their positions in the broader society. And of what became the gay rights movement, Declaration and to help reaffirm the we do so by pursuing an ambitious multi- values of equality, justice and hosted the first Gay Pride event and is still the enduring human rights principles and disciplinary and original research agenda human dignity. headquarters for the LGBT Foundation and standards it has helped establish. that wants to contribute to our humanity. Sparkle, the National Transgender Charity. Professor Ken McPhail, FURTHER INFORMATION: Drawing on our City’s historical heritage, and Academic Lead for the Business in partnership with the UN Human Rights, www.standup4humanrights.org and Human Rights Catalyst, The celebrates www.youtube.com/user/UNOHCHR Alliance Manchester Business School its contributions to the achievement of the @UNHumanRights Global Human Rights Agenda. #Standup4humanrights

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Kate Gilmore Dr Erinma Bell MBE United Nations Deputy DL JP High Commissioner for Deputy Lieutenant of Human Rights Greater Manchester www.ohchr.org www.manchesterlieutenancy.org/Bell_Erimna The evening will be hosted by Professor James Kate Gilmore was appointed United Nations In 2003 Erinma became a co-founder and Deputy High Commissioner for Human Thompson, Vice-President for Social Responsibility chair of CARISMA – Community Alliance Rights on 1st December 2015. for Renewal Inner South Manchester at The University of Manchester She brings to the position diverse and Area. CARISMA has become a front-line longstanding experience in strategic community based group, originally set up by Opening performance from Young Identity leadership and human rights advocacy with the community for the community to offer the United Nations, government and non- life-chances for young people by giving them Welcome from Dr Erinma Bell MBE DL JP, Deputy government organizations. positive alternatives other than street and gun crimes. CARISMA works around issues Lieutenant, Greater Manchester Lieutenancy Prior to joining OHCHR, Ms. Gilmore was such as Restorative Justice, Peace and Assistant Secretary General and Deputy Conflict Resolution as well as Peace Making, Kate Gilmore, Deputy High Commissioner for Executive Director for Programmes with the Peace keeping and Peace Building within an United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). urban environment. Human Rights and Nazir Afzal, Former Chief Crown Previously she was National Director of Prosecutor for , will be in Amnesty International Australia and then Erinma’s professional background is in training and development including 10 years at Save conversation. Executive Deputy Secretary General of Amnesty International. the Children before going freelance. Erinma is part of the Common Purpose Alumni; LIGHTENING TALKS FROM: Ms. Gilmore started her career as a social a Rotary Peace Fellow and an Honorary worker and government policy officer in Member of the Rotary Manchester Breakfast • School Diversity Champions Australia. She helped establish Australia’s first Club and was made Deputy Lieutenant of • REIGN Centre Against Sexual Assault at Melbourne’s Greater Manchester in 2011 Royal Women’s Hospital and her work over • Ilyas Nagdee a number of years focused on prevention More recently Erinma has become a • Speak Up! Stand Up! of . In Australia, Community Partner under the direction of the National Centre for Community Public • Bright Future Programme she was granted honorary appointments to provincial and national public policy and law Engagement. The aim is to set the foundation reform processes, including membership of for a UK wide community partner network The evening will close with tea and cake in the foyer. the country’s first National Committee on that will influence HE policy and practice and Violence Against Women. provide resources for improving community and university partnerships focused on Ms. Gilmore holds a Bachelor of Arts degree tackling inequalities. from the University of New England and postgraduate degrees in Social Work from the University of Melbourne and Community Development from RMIT.

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Nazir Afzal OBE Professor James Young Identity School Honorary Doctor at Thompson www.youngidentity.org Diversity The University of Manchester Vice-President for Young Identity (YI) is a spoken Champions Nazir Afzal OBE, was Chief Social Responsibility, word collective formed in Crown Prosecutor for North The University of Manchester Manchester, 2006 by Shirley www.diversitychampions2017.wordpress.com West England and formerly Director in May and Ali Gadema. The group has recently www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/social- www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/social- London. Most recently, he was Chief responsibility become a CIO, having just appointed a new Executive of the country’s Police & board within the company. responsibility/widening-participation Crime Commissioners. Professor James Thompson is Vice President YI delivers dynamic poetry and spoken word New to The University of Manchester’s BAME for Social Responsibility and Professor of Widening Participation Programme, the During a 24 year career he has had Applied and Social Theatre. workshops in art venues such as Contact and responsibility for more than 100,000 HOME, in addition to projects in local wards. School Diversity Champions project has been prosecutions each year and has He leads the University’s third core goal We meet regularly in these locations to work developed in an effort to reduce hate crime prosecuted some of the most high profile on social responsibility, focusing on how with eager writers aged 13-25 years old. across communities and on campus. cases in the country. Nazir has advised we orientate our research, community The original members of Young Identity, The programme is for 12 year old pupils from on many others whilst leading nationally engagement, teaching and learning and known as Inna Voice, also work alongside across six schools in Greater Manchester, on several legal topics including violence processes to making a positive social, YI to manage One Mic Stand (affectionately promoting understanding of what equality against women and girls, child sexual abuse environmental and cultural impact on known as OMS), a popular poetry showcase and diversity means and can look like in and honour based violence. society. This includes Equality, Diversity practice. and Inclusion – working with staff across and slam night which takes place quarterly Nazir’s prosecutions of the so called Rochdale the institution to ensure equality is at the in Manchester. The year 8 students participating have grooming gang, BBC presenter forefront of all our processes. Young Identity is dedicated to giving young undertaken training in mental health, equality and hundreds of others were ground breaking people opportunities to perform their and diversity, anti-extremism and LGBQTI and drove the work that has changed the He also leads on the University’s cultural written work. We have recently launched a rights and have also worked alongside the landscape of child protection. institutions, having oversight of the Jodrell new 2-year program called Hatch, where University’s History department to learn Bank Discovery Centre, Manchester Museum about immigration during World War 2 which He is the Chair of Hopwood Hall. He was and the Whitworth. we are developing the talents of up-and- appointed to the Independent Press coming poets to become professional included a session with pupils and staff to Standards Organisation (IPSO). He is also He was the founder and director of two artists in the industry. meet Holocaust survivors. National Adviser on Gender Based Violence arts organisations (the TiPP Centre and In The students also participated with the to the Welsh Government. Most recently Place of War) and he continues to research University’s first overseas trip for local young he joined the advisory board of Google’s arts programmes in war, disaster zones and people by going on a field trip to Auschwitz Innovation Fund for counter-extremism. care services. He has developed and run in Krakow, Poland, which provided them arts projects in Africa and South Asia with an opportunity to learn about one of (principally in the Democratic Republic of the most historic events of prejudice and Congo and Sri Lanka) and has written widely discrimination. on theatre applied to conflict, peacebuilding and reconciliation.

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REIGN Ilyas Nagdee Speak Up! Stand Up! Bright Future www.reclaim.org.uk/reign Black Students’ Officer, NUS www.reportandsupport. Programme, The manchester.ac.uk/campaigns REIGNMCR www.nusconnect.org.uk/ Cooperative Group @REIGNManchester elected-officers/black- The Speak Up! Stand Up! www.co-operative.coop/ Email: [email protected] students-officer Campaign is a collaboration ethics/bright-future @ilyas_nagdee between The University of REIGN is a collective of young women Manchester and the Students Launched in April 2017, the Coops Bright Email: [email protected] survivors of child sexual exploitation (CSE) Union. The campaign is based on the belief Future programme offers employment to in Greater Manchester who are committed Ilyas is currently serving as the NUS Black that everyone has the right to live, work and survivors of modern slavery. to fixing the flaws in the systems that failed Students Officer where he represents study in an environment free from the fear of The programme provides the opportunity of them as children. REIGN deliver survivor- students of colour in Further Education, harassment or violence. a paid work placement and a job in the Coop’s led training workshops to frontline services, Higher Education and Apprenticeships. The campaign aims to empower all members food business to those who have been practitioners and decision makers in the His priorities this year have been around rescued from modern slavery. field of CSE. They also run award winning attainment, Prevent and institutional racism. of our community to take action against campaigns to raise awareness, change harassment, hate crime and sexual violence. Developed with their partner City Hearts, Prior to his role at NUS, he was the Diversity attitudes, and call for improved support for These behaviours are never ok; we want Bright Future is a new approach and is the first Officer at The University of Manchester victims of sexual abuse. people to see it, know it’s a problem and to time a major UK business has offered work Students Union and did his degree in Middle take responsibility to take action. placements to survivors of modern slavery. Over the past year, REIGN have presented Eastern Studies at Manchester where he their work across the country to universities, was also actively involved with widening Whether its online or in person we’re asking frontline professionals, police officers, participation initiatives. everyone to: paramedics, judges, and more; challenging In 2016 Ilyas won a Making a Difference • See It! Get to know the facts on victim blaming and victim stigma, promoting Award from The University of Manchester harassment, hate crime and trauma informed intervention and care, for the Ramadan Tent Project (RTP) which sexual violence. dismantling myths, and encouraging empathy has run in Manchester for several years. RTP and professional curiously. • Know it’s a Problem! Think about how aims to create positive social change by these behaviours affect you and the Due to the variety of their lived experiences, bringing together communities and fostering people around you. REIGN’s training around CSE covers multiple interfaith dialogue. intersecting issues such as mental health, the • Take Responsibility! Know that it’s The event brings together hundreds of care system, criminal exploitation, poverty, everyone’s responsibility to speak up University staff, students and members of disability, and race. and take action. the public. By fostering interfaith dialogue, bringing together communities and • Take Action! Act if you see something promoting positive images of students as that doesn’t feel right. active citizens involved in social change, RTP hopes to encourage its visitors to be socially responsible citizens.

8 9 OUR WORK ON HUMAN RIGHTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER

Alliance Manchester Global inequalities Business School

The University of Manchester is advancing our Alliance Manchester Business School is a understanding of the world in which we live, research-led school with a mission of giving addressing global inequalities to improve lives. everyone the opportunity to transform their lives and, in doing so, helping them transform There are pronounced inequalities across the ethnicity, educational opportunities, social the organisations they work for and the wider world. While progress has been made in some class, age, sexuality, religious belief or dis/ability. community in which they live. countries and on some aspects of inequality, As we have done for almost two centuries, it’s still the case that food, health care, The University of Manchester is leading the One of the most significant developments infrastructure and resources are plentiful way in tackling global inequalities. Bringing in global governance in the past decade in some areas, yet scarce in others. Far too together some of the best academic minds has been the assigning of human rights many households struggle with low income in applied medicine, business, law, social responsibilities to business. Viewing business and poor job prospects. sciences and the arts, we’re meeting these as an actor who has a direct responsibility to respect human rights in their activities Across the world, men and women’s challenges head on, creating and sharing aims, through world-leading research and and operations notwithstanding the context opportunities, experiences, their potential knowledge to alleviate and end poverty and policy recommendations, to have a real in which they operate is revolutionary. and their quality of life are shaped by inequalities across the globe. impact on the rights of some of the most The proposal to extend human rights unequal treatment, prejudice and vulnerable people in society and to serve as a With years of research in global development, responsibilities to corporations is outlined in discrimination due to their personal safe space for inter-disciplinary discussions health care, education, disaster the ground-breaking UN Guiding Principles characteristics or family background. between academics, policymakers and management, humanitarian aid, employment on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs), businesses on the role of the private sector in and equality and diversity, we help to deliver which have been widely adopted into national At its most stark, this means that around relation to fundamental rights. The group: 800 million people in the world will go hungry real-world benefit. and international regulation. The UNGPs today, and 29,000 children will die from fundamentally disrupt established views of • defines the challenges of businesses’ Further information: the relationship between markets, business responsibility to respect human rights preventable health care problems. www.manchester.ac.uk/research/beacons/ and society and, as a result, turn established At The University of Manchester we’re global-inequalities • engages key actors in an informed and business scholarship on its head. Recognizing focusing on all aspects of inequality, from action-oriented discussion this fundamental disruption, in 2016 the poverty to social justice, from living conditions • informs the academic, social and political Alliance Manchester Business School funded to equality in the workplace. We seek to debate Inequalities a new initiative: The Business and Human understand our world and directly change it Rights Catalyst (BHR Catalyst), one of the • shapes future policy and corporate practice for the better. first human rights programmes worldwide • impacts the realization of rights There is enough food to feed everyone in the hosted by a business school. The Catalyst fits GLOBAL CHALLENGES Further information: world. There is no justifiable reason why the AMBS’s ambition to be a world class business www.mbs.ac.uk/bhr opportunities of health and well-being should MANCHESTER SOLUTIONS school that fundamentally impacts the way not be available to all, irrespective of gender, the world does business. The BHR Catalyst

10 11 The School of Arts, The Global Development Languages and Cultures Institute, The School of and the Humanitarian Environment, Education and Conflict Response and Development Institute

The University of Manchester has been at The School of Arts, Languages and Cultures the forefront of Development Studies for is a place to inspire, and be inspired. Delivering image: UK-Med over 60 years. The Global Development outstanding research on fundamental Institute plays a major role in supporting rights, the School hosts an international own measures of peace and recovery, based the University’s commitment to addressing research network to study racism against on their daily lives, to better understand global poverty and inequality. It promotes native peoples in Brazil. Bringing together post-conflict societies and support the social justice by conducting world-class, academics, an NGO and indigenous development of effective community interdisciplinary research that critically and communities, it aims to combat rising social for attaining decent work, especially for projects. In conjunction with Alliance rigorously advances development theory and governmental hostility, and promote Manchester Business School, The Role of and practice. precarious female workers. We hope to sustainable development. Historians are answer whether the spread of regional value Business in Humanitarian Relief in the leading a fourth international research project Mediterranean refugee crisis project looks Current highlights include: chains imply greater commercial challenges on population displacement. Recovering for labour, or could provide a channel for at how corporations can make better use The Effective States and Inclusive historic refugee voices through personal enhancing public-private governance of of their material, logistical and technical Development Research Centre (ESID) testimonies and archival work on four decent work. resources to provide immediate responses continents, ‘Reckoning with Refugeedom: and long-term solutions to humanitarian ESID is a global partnership investigating the refugee voices in modern world history, The FutureDAMS research consortium crises. In the UK, WAST PEER Research kinds of politics that promote development. 1919-1975’ will create a refugee centred Project works with the charity Women We are deepening the understanding of FutureDAMS is working to improve the perspective on the modern era. governance in the developing world in ways design, selection and operation of dams to Asylum Seekers Together Manchester to that impact on policy and practice so that support sustainable development. The Humanitarian and Conflict Response create conditions for empowerment among people’s lives and livelihoods are improved. Institute (HCRI) is an interdisciplinary destitute female forced migrants, and More than 3,700 large dams planned or under research institute combining the expert develop a new, mutually beneficial approach The role of value chains in promoting construction, to service growing demands insights of leading researchers in both applied to collaborative research. decent work in Sub-Saharan Africa for energy and irrigation. This new generation medicine and humanities. of dam schemes has the potential to make In November 2018 we will commence a This new project will examine the a significant contribution towards achieving Researchers at HCRI considered the basic research project entitled ‘The Art of Peace’ implications of regional and domestic value the Sustainable Development Goals and livelihoods, rights, and everyday concerns of that aims to develop a deeper understanding chains in the Global South for public-private Paris climate change commitments. But citizens in conflict-affected societies to think of the multiple ways the arts can support governance and regulation of decent work in maximising the benefits, while minimising the about how economies are formed before, processes of peace formation and act as global production. negative social and environmental impacts during, or after the conflict. a connector between the different social remains a challenge. actors involved. The research will focus on sourcing by South Recent international collaborations include African and Kenyan retailers of horticulture Further information: Everyday Peace Indicators, funded by the Further information: and garments from South Africa, Lesotho www.gdi.manchester.ac.uk Carnegie Corporation. EPI works with local www.alc.manchester.ac.uk and Kenya. It will assess the implications www.seed.manchester.ac.uk NGOs to ask local communities for their www.hcri.manchester.ac.uk

12 13 The School of The School Social Sciences of Law

Academics at the School of Social Sciences The School of Law’s richly diverse carry out theoretically-informed, empirical intellectual community brings together research, addressing major issues of legal doctrinal scholars with criminologists, private and public concern. The research ethicists, sociologists, socio-legal scholars, is founded on a unique combination of six producing a wide range of scholarly and disciplines: Economics, Politics, Sociology, policy-oriented publications. Social Anthropology, Social Statistics and Researchers in Criminology explore the Philosophy. Human Rights underpins the rights of people under slavery conditions, ethos of Social Scientists across these and the role of governments and business disciplines. From an innovative MA Human in tackling the issue of human trafficking and Rights programme to research on the forced labour. social determinants of refugee health and wellbeing, both students and academics Specific studies on the process of The Manchester International Law Centre of the type, volume, frequency, location, have an enabling environment to prioritise decision-making within the United is an internationally-recognised centre patterns of behaviour, responses in relation equalities and their social responsibility to Nations Security Council are ongoing; of academic excellence whose members to human rights cases – hate crimes our world. as well research on the ethics of war, the seek to make innovative contributions included. On the other hand, the database to international legal scholarship while should encourage victims to report their Contributions from Social Sciences include responsibility to protect, humanitarian also providing consultancy and advice to experiences, empower communities and modelling and forecasting complex intervention, and the alternatives to war. governments, international organisations contribute to the development of social processes, political integration Further information: and NGOs on questions of international multi-agency strategies to tackle human and representation of ethnic minorities, www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk human rights law. rights abuse. gender, feminism and security in post- conflict contexts. Within a recent project, In addition, the School of Law social Further information: our Social Statisticians are analysing the responsibility project – located in the www.law.manchester.ac.uk/cccj Survey of New Refugees, commissioned Legal Advice Centre – aims to develop and www.law.manchester.ac.uk/milc by the UK Government, to assess the maintain a database that monitors human significance of methodological biases in the rights cases in the UK. The purpose of the four waves or responses from 2005 to 2009 database is twofold. On the one hand, it aims from 5000 refugees. at advancing knowledge and understanding

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