Human Rights Research Students’ Conference
Friday 11th November 2016 9:00am to 4.30pm School of Advanced Study, Senate House, London
This conference is co-organised by the Human Rights Consortium at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex and Glasgow Human Rights Network at the University of Glasgow.
8.45 – 9.00 Conference Registration
9.00 – 9.15 Welcome and Introduction Dr Corinne Lennox, Associate Director, Human Rights Consortium, School of Advanced Study, University of London
Bloomsbury Room (G35) 9.15 – 11.00 Panel 1A: Protecting the Rights Stefania Barichello (SAS) - Brazilian response to the Syrian refugee crisis of People on the Move Anastasia Denisova (SAS) - Are Persons Fleeing Wars Refugees? Case Study of Syrians in the UK Chair: Dr Sarah Singer, Refugee and Russia Law Initiative, School of Advanced Study, University of Paolo Biondi (SAS) - The Dublin Regulation. Towards an Obligation of Responsibility-Sharing? London Jennifer Rooney (SAS) – Protecting or Abusing Migrants in Transit? Human Rights-Based NGOs Bloomsbury Room (G35) versus Organised Crime in Mexico
9.15 – 11.00 Panel 1B: The Future of Koldo Casla (KCL) - The Future of Social and Economic Rights in the UK: Challenges and Economic and Social Rights Opportunities
Chair: Professor Diamond Samantha Williams (UCC) - Tracking austerity based “crisis law” before the European Court of Ashiagbor, Institute of Human Rights: the approach of the Court Advanced Legal Studies, School of Advanced Study, University Serena Crawshay-Williams (University of Bristol) - Refugees and Forced Labour of London
Room 234
11.00 – 11.15 Coffee/Tea break - Bloomsbury Room (G35)
11.15 – 12.45 Plenary session: Eka Iakobishvili (University of Essex) - Transgender prisoners under international human rights Combatting Torture law: models for protection
Chair: Professor Sir Malcolm Qadeer Alam (Middlesex University) - Understanding the Use of Torture to Extract Confessions Evans, OBE, Chair of the UN and Its Impact on Capital Punishment in the Indian Subcontinent Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and Deputy Director of Yesim Yaprak Yildiz (University of Cambridge) - Forced Confession as a Ritual of Sovereignty: The the Human Rights Case of Diyarbakir Military Prison in Turkey Implementation Centre, University of Bristol
Bloomsbury Room (G35) 12.45 – 13.45 Lunch - Bloomsbury Room (G35)
13.45 – 15.00 Panel 2A: New Frontiers in Aleydis Nissen (Cardiff University) - Complicity of extraterritorial states in the business and International Human Rights human rights debate Law Luis Viveros (UCL) - A Uniform Approach to Reparations in International Human Rights Law Chair: Dr Damien Short, Human Rights Consortium, School of Advanced Study, University of London
Bloomsbury Room (G35) 13.45 – 15.00 Panel 2B: Contemporary Dumi Senda (University of Oxford) - Invisible cages and Hardened shields: the Role of Strategies for Child Rights Storytelling in Child Rights Advocacy in Zimbabwe Protection Naomi Lott (University of Nottingham) - The importance of the right to play Chair: Dr Karen Wells, Department of Geography, Environment and Development Studies, Birkbeck College
Room 234
13.45 – 15.00 Panel 2C: Human Rights in Chunxio Zhang (University of Bristol) - Exploring the Meaning of the “Right to be Forgotten” by Cyberspace Comparing Its “Old” and “New” Legal Basis in the EU Data Protection Regime
Chair: Professor Lorna Sara Solmone (UEL) - Fulfilling human rights online: the problem of access-based jurisdiction in McGregor, Human Rights Internet-related cases Centre, University of Essex
Torrington Room (104)
15.00 – 15.15 Coffee/Tea break - Bloomsbury Room (G35)
15.15 – 16.30 Panel 3A: Challenges for Alexandra Lily Kather (Middlesex University) - Exhumation of mass graves in the context of International Criminal Justice international forensic investigations
Chair: Dr Gus Waschefort, Alessandra Cuppini (University of Strathclyde) - Victims’ Participation in proceedings before the School of Law, University of International Criminal Court: Developing an Expressivist Role of Trial within the International Essex Criminal Justice System
Bloomsbury Room (G35) Claire Morris (University of Essex) - Admissibility Determinations by the ICC: Impact on the Rule of Law in Kenya, Côte d’Ivoire and Libya
15.15 – 16.30 Panel 3B: Gender and Sonya Rahaman (SAS) - The relationship between extractive industries, free prior and informed Development consent and the rights of indigenous women
Chair: Dr Corinne Lennox, Clare Hammerton (University of Essex) - Sexual Rights in International Development Human Rights Consortium, School of Advanced Study, University of London
Torrington Room (104)
Optional event Amnesty International book Combating torture and other ill-treatment: A Manual for action launch and panel discussion 17.00 – 19.00 Confirmed speakers: The Chancellor's Hall, Senate Mohamed Nasheed, fourth president of the Maldives and human rights activist House Professor Sir Malcolm Evans, OBE, Chair of the UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and Deputy Director of the HRIC Mona Eltahawy, award-winning columnist and commentator Karen McKenzie, Head of the Human Rights Unit of the Commonwealth Secretariat Yuval Ginbar, Legal Advisor, Amnesty International