Internal events archive
Internal events - 2011/12
Click on each event below for further information on the event plus any videos or presentation slides.
- 120618/19: GHRN Conference - Protecting Human Rights: Duties and Responsibilities of States and Non-state Actors
- 120319 GHRN Public Seminar: "An update from Afghanistan: Beyond Three Cups of Tea"
- 120314 “Squaring the Circle: Detention-principles and practice”: Lt Col Alasdair Morrison (UK Army Legal Services)
- 120312 Politics Seminars Candlemas Term: “For the Ummah or Humanity? Islamic Humanitarianism between Communitarianism and Cosmopolitanism”
- 120301 "Humanitarian ethics in war: ends, means, rights and dilemmas" - Hugo Slim
- 120216 GHRN Public Seminar: "9/11 + 10: A New Human Rights Research Agenda" - Dr Stephanie Carvin
- 120130 GHRN Public Seminar: “Security, Prevention, Prediction: Impact on Human Rights”
- 111129 GHRN Inaugural Human Rights Lecture
- 111124 Public Seminar: The Responsibility to Prevent: The Possibilities and Challenges of Mass Atrocity Prevention
- 111107 Re-forging Rwanda’s Identity: The Case of the Rwandan Government’s Ingando Camps
- 111103 GHRN & European Parliament Office in Scotland: Sakharov Prize 2011 Panel Discussion
- 111005 GHRN Seminar - From Tunis to Tripoli: Analysing the Arab Spring
- 2010/11
LGBTI Human Rights in the Commonwealth
Please see the Conference Webpage including links to the conference statement and pictures, and videos of all main panel sessions.
Conference partners include GHRN, Equality Network, Kaleidoscope Trust and Pride Glasgow
18th July 2014, 9.00am - 5.00pm
1 University Avenue, at junction with Gibson Street
Sir Charles Wilson Building, University of Glasgow
‘LGBTI Human Rights in the Commonwealth’ is a free one day conference. The event is being held in Glasgow on Friday 18th July, five days before the opening of the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games.
The aims of the conference are to create a focus for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex (LGBTI) human rights discussions in the run up to the games, providing a space to share ideas, practice and campaigns, engaging participants in global human rights issues and ensuring the visibility of Commonwealth LGBTI people and culture during the games.
The conference is being co-organised by Matthew Waites, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, of the GHRN in partnership with the Equality Network, Kaleidoscope Trust and Pride Glasgow. Matthew Waites is co-editor (with Corinne Lennox) of the volume Human Rights, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in the Commonwealth: Struggles for Decriminalisation and Change, which is available free online for everyone to read or download (click here: http://commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/publications/house-publications/lgbt-rights-commonwealth; Facebook site: https://www.facebook.com/HumanRightsSOGICommonwealth). For conference updates via Twitter follow @MatthewWaites , the conference hashtag is #lgbtihrc for advance and live tweeting.
You can download the full conference programme.
Maps, travel, visitor information and accessibility
The venue is wheelchair accessible via an entrance on the left side with buzzer. For further disability/health access requirements, contact Equality Network: en@equality-network.org , tel. 0131 467 6039.
For full details and to register, please visit the Conference website.
'Human Rights, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in the Commonwealth'
Graduate Conference 2015
Graduate Conference on Human Rights: Challenges to Human Rights Theory and Practice
Thursday 21st May 2015
Wolfson Medical School Building, University of Glasgow
Organised by the Postgraduate Cluster of the Glasgow Human Rights Network (GHRN)
The keynote speech, The Human Rights State: A User's Guide, will be delivered by Professor Benjamin Gregg, University of Austin at Texas, on the eveniing of Wednesday 20th May in Lecture Theatre 2 (Room 222), Boyd Orr Building (more details to follow).
More information on the conference and how to register will be published soon.
You can follow the event on Facebook.
