Declarations: The Human Rights Podcast

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A show about human rights coming to you every week from the Cambridge Centre of Governance and Human Rights. Tune in each week as we explore how the concept and practice of human rights can remain fit-for-purpose and co-evolve with the changing world order, joined by fascinating guests from the University of Cambridge and around the world.

Episode Date
Shifting Tides: How the Media Landscape and Press Freedom Are Changing Worldwide
Nov 13, 2025
Invisible Chains: How Censorship, Misinformation and Propaganda Shape Stockholm Syndrome in African States
Nov 07, 2025
Human Rights and American Foreign Policy with Andrew Preston
Oct 29, 2025
Human Rights Volunteers: Lessons from Due Diligence during Qatar 2022
Sep 11, 2024
Advancing Rights Through Protest & Revolution in Syria
Sep 04, 2024
Unlearning Gender-Based Violence
Aug 28, 2024
Prisons, Captivity & Justice in India
Aug 21, 2024
Protecting the Protector
Aug 07, 2024
Politics & Human Rights: With the Politics or Against the Politics?
Jul 31, 2024
Human Rights: Of, By, For Which People?
Jul 23, 2024
Season 8 Episode 1 - Introducing Horror, Hope & Human
Jul 17, 2024
Season 7 Episode 9: Prioritising Human Rights in the Green Transition
Jun 15, 2023
Season 7 Episode 8: Voices from Across the Picket Lines
Jun 08, 2023
Season 7 Episode 7: Women peacebuilders in a conflicted world order.
May 25, 2023
Season 7 Episode 6: The Psychology of Border Violations in Mental Abuse
May 18, 2023
Season 7 Episode 5: ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’: Poetry and Protest in Iran
May 11, 2023
Season 7 Episode 4: Lawfare: The Modern Version of Warfare
May 04, 2023
Season 7 Episode 3: Privacy for Public Figures
Apr 27, 2023
Season 7 Episode 2: The policy that never took off: Assessing UK’s Rwanda Asylum Plan
Apr 20, 2023
Season 7 Episode 1: The Race for Justice in Ukraine
Apr 13, 2023
Season 7 Launch – Borders and Boundaries
Apr 06, 2023
Deepfakes and Non-Consensual Pornography
Mar 30, 2022
Artificial Intelligence: The ultimate threat to workers’ rights?
Mar 23, 2022
Freedom of Expression and Internet Shutdowns in Pakistan
Mar 16, 2022
Biometrics and Refugees
Mar 09, 2022
Empathy Games
Mar 02, 2022
Live Facial Recognition in the UK - The London Metropolitan Police’s trial
Feb 09, 2022
Fortress Europe
Feb 02, 2022
Predictive Policing with Johannes Heiler and Dr Miri Zilka
Jan 26, 2022
Welcome to Season 6
Jan 19, 2022
Kathleen Schwind: Water Security and How to ‘Ignite Your Story’
Jul 09, 2021
Foro Penal & Macro/Micro-Resistance in Venezuela, featuring Alfredo Romero
Jun 18, 2021
Reporting on Human Rights in Yemen with Afrah Nasser
May 29, 2021
Counterterrorism & Human Rights in Conversation with Tom Parker
May 21, 2021
Thai Protests & The Fate of the Future Forward Party
May 14, 2021
Existential Risk, Climate Crisis & Indigenous Rights with Natalie Jones
Mar 19, 2021
Human Rights in the Digital Space - A Conversation with Alina Utrata
Mar 12, 2021
We Need to Talk: Hate Crime Response and Prevention with Alex Raikes
Mar 05, 2021
Dalit Rights Matter: The Fight for Equality and the Long Road Ahead
Feb 26, 2021
#NoRightsNoGames: The Uyghur Genocide & the Beijing 2022 Olympic Games
Feb 19, 2021
The #EndSARS Protests, Part 2: Women in Activism, Social Media, and the Road Ahead in Nigeria
Feb 05, 2021
The Sudanese Revolution: Women’s Rights and the Power of Social Media
Jan 25, 2021
We Need to Talk: The Climate Crisis with Daze Aghaji
Dec 09, 2020
Understanding the #EndSARS Protests, Part 1: Anti-Corruption and Political Power in Nigeria
Nov 30, 2020
“Call it Genocide”: The Rohingya Crisis in Conversation with Dan Sullivan and Tun Khin
Nov 20, 2020
Welcome to Season 5
Nov 12, 2020
We Need to Talk: Over-information
Oct 03, 2020
We Need to Talk: Difficult Conversations
Sep 16, 2020
We Need to Talk: Abolish the Police?
Aug 20, 2020
We Need to Talk: The Prison-Industrial Complex
Aug 04, 2020
We Need to Talk: How to Protest (Safely)
Jun 24, 2020
We Need to Talk About Race
Jun 14, 2020
Wet’suwet’en Strong: Indigenous Land Rights in Canada
Mar 10, 2020
Forced Labour in China's Prisons: A Conversation with Peter Humphrey
Mar 04, 2020
The Immigrant "Race": Part 2 with Jacinta Gonzalez
Feb 19, 2020
Declarations in Conversation: The University Strikes Back
Jan 30, 2020
The Immigrant “Race”: Part 1 with Maya Goodfellow
Jan 21, 2020
Accessibility for Persons with Disabilities: A Right or a Privilege?
Jan 14, 2020
Kashmir: Caught in the Crossfire
Nov 22, 2019
The Politics of Exhaustion at the British Border
Nov 13, 2019
Investigating Raqqa: Amnesty’s inquiry into the coalition’s military campaign (Special Episode)
Nov 07, 2019
Welcome to Season 4
Oct 30, 2019
Organ Harvesting and Trafficking of Chinese Minorities
Oct 20, 2019
Bodies and Borders: Migration in the Digital Age
Sep 30, 2019
Weaponizing Walls: Trump, the Border, and Its Scars (with Dr. Ieva Jusionyte)
Sep 12, 2019
Change in the Niger Delta: Oil Extraction, Greased Palms, and Petro-Capitalism
May 06, 2019
Special Episode: Launching 'Rhetoric Versus Reality in the War in Raqqa' (with Amnesty International)
Apr 25, 2019
Race, Political Representation and Human Rights in the United Kingdom (with Simon Woolley)
Apr 22, 2019
What Can Maps, Twitter, and the Crowd do for Human Rights? (with Sam Dubberley)
Mar 11, 2019
A Right to Sleep: Homelessness and Temporary Housing
Jan 21, 2019
Lost in Europe: Missing Migrant Children
Dec 10, 2018
Bolsonaro and #NotHim: Something Old or Something New?
Nov 24, 2018
Season 3: Memory, Community, Futures
Nov 19, 2018
Justice in Transition: Reclaiming Rights Within and Without States?
Oct 06, 2018
External Borders, Internal Politics: What do Democracies owe Refugees? (With Lord Smith of Finsbury)
Aug 16, 2018
PROFILE: Dr Alexa Koenig, Berkeley Human Rights Center
Jul 15, 2018
What is the 'Copenhagen Declaration'?(with Prof. Başak Çalı)
Jul 07, 2018
"What gives me hope" - Malachy Browne
Jun 11, 2018
Repeal the 8th: Developing a Rights Framework for Abortion?
May 22, 2018
Is Human Rights a Fable? (with Professor Samuel Moyn)
Mar 26, 2018
Do Borders Hide or Reveal Rights? (With Dr Monica Figueroa)
Mar 21, 2018
#Weapons4HumanRights: Are "Rights" Used to Regulate Killing? (With Christof Heyns)
Mar 05, 2018
Can Human Rights Solve the Palestinian Question? (With Dr Ruba Salih & Odette Murray)
Feb 03, 2018
Can We Change How Economic Institutions Impact Communities? (With Dr Shailaja Fennell)
Dec 21, 2017
Are Human Rights Always “Good”? Or Are They Weaponized? (with Chase Madar)
Dec 09, 2017
Refugee Rights and Lived Experience: How Can We Be Better at Integration?
Dec 01, 2017
The Right to Protest: Can Dissent Be Scripted Through Human Rights?
Nov 23, 2017
Human Rights and Intervention: Do Local Contexts Matter? (With Dr Njoki Wamai)
Nov 14, 2017
Is Reclaiming Cultural Heritage an Issue of Human Rights? (With Rodney Kelly)
Nov 07, 2017
Still I Rise: How Can the Language of Human Rights Challenge Injustice?
Oct 30, 2017
Season 2 Prelude: Protest, Subjugation and Technology
Oct 23, 2017
Technology and Human Rights: Does Evidence Matter?
May 31, 2017
Pussy Riot: Can Art Topple Tyrants? (with Pussy Riot's Maria Alyokhina)
May 25, 2017
Is Economics About Human Rights? (with Dr Ha-Joon Chang)
May 10, 2017
How can we be better allies, in advancing LGBT+ rights?
Mar 16, 2017
Is There a Right to Die?
Mar 08, 2017
Is the International Criminal Court racist?
Feb 27, 2017
Is Reproductive Healthcare a Right?
Feb 20, 2017
Invasion of Privacy: A False Sense of Security?
Feb 13, 2017
Can I Go to America?
Feb 06, 2017
Is Myanmar Committing Genocide against the Rohingya? (with Dr Thomas MacManus)
Jan 31, 2017
Refugee Rights: Whose Responsibility?
Jan 23, 2017
Environmental Rights: Why Divest from Fossil Fuels?
Jan 16, 2017
Is Christmas a War of Words? (2016 Holiday Special)
Dec 20, 2016
Is There a Right to the City? (with Dr Graham Denyer Willis)
Dec 05, 2016
What's Wrong with Fake News? (with Dr Ella McPherson)
Nov 28, 2016
Are Human Rights "Real"? (with Dr Sharath Srinivasan)
Nov 20, 2016