PUBLIC EVENT - open to all and with no ticket required Fighting the Behemoth: law, politics and human rights in times of debt and austerity
UN International Human Rights Day event, in association with the Department of Law
 Thursday 10 December 2015, 6.30-8pm
Speaker: Zoe Konstantopoulou Chair: Margot Salomon
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Greece is at the forefront of questions connecting human rights protection, debt and austerity. Zoe Konstantopoulou, former President of the Greek Parliament will share her insights on the fight to secure social rights.
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RESEARCH NEWS In August 2015 Dr Claire Moon, Department of Sociology and Centre for the Study of Human Rights, conducted field research in Mexico into the forensic investigation of clandestine mass graves arising out of the government’s ‘war on organized crime’. Since 2006 and in this context an estimated 150,000 Mexican citizens and undocumented migrants have been killed or ‘disappeared’. Around 20,000 bodies have been recovered from a number of grave sites but remain unidentified.
The research investigated the practices and principles of a number of organizations and forensics initiatives including the Red Cross, the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (EAAF), the Mexican Forensic Anthropology Team (EMAF), the International Commission for Missing Persons (ICMP), and the innovative and controversial citizen-led DNA project, Gobernanza Forense Cuidadano, run by family members of the disappeared. The research addressed forensic identification, the care of the dead, the emotional labour of forensic work, and raised the question of whether it can be argued that the dead have human rights. It also looked at conflicts of approaches within the forensic field.
Mexico is a unique case study because no state or non-state organization has as yet made (or been able to make) a systematic attempt to identify the disappeared and because family groups, who cannot rely on state investigations, are mobilizing their own forensic technologies with the aim of finding and identifying missing relatives and pursuing the rights to truth and justice.
The Mexican case is one of a number of cases that features in Claire’s current book project on forensics, science and human rights. The book addresses the ‘forensic turn’ in human rights by advancing a historical account of its emergence, professionalization, and global proliferation, and proposing a theoretical framework within which to understand the social and political significance of forensic techniques in the adjudication of atrocity and the amelioration of social suffering. It applies this historical and theoretical work across a number of case studies, including Argentina, Spain and Mexico.
The fieldtrip was supported by the LSE’s RIIF Seed Fund. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PROJECT NEWS  On 16 November, the Investment and Human Rights Project (IHRP) at the Centre’s Laboratory for Advanced Research on the Global Economy and the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights will host a joint session at the UN Annual Forum on Business and Human Rights. The session will address how States should implement the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPS) in the context of investment policy, drawing on the recent work by the IHRP in Colombia and Indonesia. The UN Panel discussion will bring together representatives from both countries to discuss the current plans for investment policy to be included in their respective National Action Plans to implement the UNGPs. Andrea Shemberg of the IHRP will be on the Panel along with a representative of Rio Tinto. Dante Pesce of the working group will moderate. The UN Annual Forum is a public meeting, but registration is required here
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------LSE HUMAN RIGHTS BLOG The student-led LSE Human Rights blog is a place for critical engagement with the idea of human rights, for studying the evolution of the concept, and for celebrating the work of people committed to realising human rights. Latest posts include an anti-slavery series, a week-long examination of the conditions that slavery operates in, covering topics as diverse as the legal legacy of slavery in the US, the economics of manumission in British dependencies, and the inclusion of modern slavery in global development goals. · Read all the post in the series here  The editorial team welcomes thought-provoking and accessible articles. Though articles are often written by alumni, staff and students, you do not have to be affiliated to the Centre for the Study of Human Rights, or LSE, to submit a post. Notes for contributors.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------PUBLIC EVENTS PODCAST: Did you miss the event with Dushyant Dave on India, on 23 October? Listen to the podcast here
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------STUDY Interested in studying human rights? Come to the LSE Graduate Open Evening
Bookings are now open for the Graduate Open Evening on Wednesday 4 November. Members of the Centre for the Study of Human Rights will be there to chat and answer any questions you may have. Book for the Graduate Open Evening I More about the MSc Human Rights LSE's Executive LLM Dr Margot Salomon’s course, International Human Rights: Concepts, Law and Practice, will run in the December 2015 session of the Law Department’s exciting degree programme. The degree structure is geared towards working professionals and enrolment can take place at any time during the course of the year. Further info about Executive LLM ¦ Further info about this course
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