Season 2 Prelude: Protest, Subjugation and Technology

10/23/17 • 6 min

Welcome to the 2nd season of Declarations: The Human Rights Podcast. With every episode, we’ll be exploring contemporary debates about politics and human rights with people who study them, and people who fight for them — both here in the UK and around the world. Taking on 3 thematic areas, this season focuses on 'protest', 'subjugation', and 'technologies of oppression/liberation'. Our first episode goes live on October 30th 2017 - so tune in!

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Technology and Human Rights: Does Evidence Matter?

We can now take satellite pictures from the sky, get DNA samples on the scene and track moving networks of people through phones, laptops and other mobile technologies. With all this tech, human rights organisations should have a better idea than ever of the situation on the ground. But does this really matter, and can it really work? From using big data to predict instances of human rights abuse to combining different types of evidence to prove they have occurred, Declarations sat down with Steven Livingston, a Professor at George Washington University and a senior fellow at the Carr Centre for Human Rights at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, to talk about how technology is changing the human rights scene.

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Still I Rise: How Can the Language of Human Rights Challenge Injustice?

What do #TakeAKnee, #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatter have in common? In this episode, we explored ongoing debates surrounding the place of rights in redressing structural injustice. We talked about the language of rights, as used by both social movements and institutions, as well as social media and legislation. What are the best practices to advance human rights in an imperfect world? All of this and more, in today's episode.