by Talking Humanities | Dec 24, 2019 | Analysis & Comment, Human Rights, Politics & Law
Malta’s handling of the case of the murdered journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, has not only pushed the country into a political and constitutional crisis, it has also highlighted the power wielded by the media and the many threats it constantly faces, says Syed...
by Talking Humanities | Aug 1, 2019 | Features, Human Rights, Politics & Law
Dr Felicity Daly reflects on the first Global Feminist LBQ Women’s* Conference, which took place last month in Cape Town, South Africa. If it seems surprising that there hasn’t been a global conference such as this before perhaps it is a measure of the invisibility...
by Talking Humanities | Jul 30, 2019 | Features, Human Rights, Politics & Law, Research & Resources
Dr Domenico Giannino, visiting fellow at the Institute of Latin American Studies, looks back on the Escazú Agreement, the world’s first legally binding treaty on environmental democracy that compels states to investigate and punish killings and attacks on people...
by Talking Humanities | Jul 24, 2019 | Features, Human Rights, Politics & Law
Professor Philip Murphy, director of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, welcomes a new generation of Commonwealth activists who are using established legal and constitutional tools to tackle its ‘imperial-era homophobic laws’. I went to a rather...
by Talking Humanities | Jun 11, 2019 | Features, Human Rights, Politics & Law, Publications, Research & Resources
Lucy McMahon, a contributor to Creative Spaces: Urban Culture and Marginality, published by the Institute of Latin American Studies, reflects on the challenges for creativity in Brazil’s favela neighbourhoods. ‘We create, we are not already created (Nóis é cria, não é...