Human Rights, Society and Arts Research Group

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The Human Rights, Society and Arts research group is a hub for interdisciplinary teaching and research on human rights. It engages with different methods from social sciences and humanities to address cultural, political, economic and social challenges to human rights. The group analyses human rights at different levels, using an interdisciplinary approach to understand, define and criticise social mobilisation, cultural challenges and institutional limitations over conflicting notions of human rights.

Leading research conducted in the group focuses on the connections between arts and: copyrights, companies, migration, representation, sovereignty, social inequality. Although art needs no justification, there are certainly artistic forms that challenge injustice and regulatory ways of reproducing inequality. These include works on the fields of anthropology, drama, film, social work and law.

The group produces leading research on the fields of regional human rights courts, freedom of speech, freedom of conscience and religion. They also focus on global human rights violations such as torture, human traffic, executions, hate speech, minorities rights, memory and truth commissions, genocide, protection of human rights defenders and disappearance of witnesses.

Cultural rights are fundamental for the respect of human dignity, in the diversity of its expressions. The research produced in this stream aims at producing a better understanding of what are the links between native land ownership and cultural rights, their visibility and visuality, and the severity of their violations. It also produces impact in delivering both policy design and legal framework for the implementation of cultural rights that are critical for sustainable peace, equality and development.

The Group engages with the “Global, Secure, Connected Communities” interdisciplinary research strategically challenges, and develop research and activities that would consider and possibly impact the following UN Sustainable Development Goals: 1-No Poverty; 5-Gender Equality; 8-Decent Work and Economic Growth; 10-Reduced inequalities; 16-Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

The group’s activities include reading groups, roundtables, seminars, conferences, talk-shows and public events, as well as other opportunities for social impact and student and community engagement.

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Brunel University, Uxbridge and London
Uxbridge