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Advancing human rights: what have we learned from The Rights Track?

Release Date: 09/23/2020

The Rights Track: Sound Evidence on Human Rights and Modern Slavery - SPECIAL EPISODE

The Rights Track

In this special BONUS episode of the podcast, Todd is joined by Rights Track producer Chris Garrington of to discuss their recently published book The book, published by Anthem Press is (September 6, 2022) at a special event hosted by the University of Nottingham's Rights Lab, funders of Series 3-5 of the podcast. Transcript Todd Landman 0:01 Welcome to The Rights Track podcast, which gets the hard facts about the human rights challenges facing us today. I'm Todd Landman. In this special episode of the podcast, I'm delighted to be joined by Rights Track producer, to...

Human rights in a digital world: pause for thought

The Rights Track

In Episode 9 of Series 7, Todd is joined again by , Director of at the University of Nottingham, funders of this series. Together they reflect on some of the key themes and ideas to emerge from Series 7 of The Rights Track about human rights in a digital world. Transcript Todd Landman 0:01 Welcome to The Rights Track podcast, which gets the hard facts about the human rights challenges facing us today. In series seven, we've been discussing human rights in a digital world. I'm Todd Landman. And in the last episode of this fantastic series, I'm delighted to be joined for the...

Eyewitness: using digital technology to prosecute human rights abusers

The Rights Track

In Episode 8 of Series 7 of The Rights Track, Todd is in conversation with Wendy Betts, Director of , an International Bar Association project launched in 2015 which collects verifiable video of human rights violations for use in investigations and trials. We're asking Wendy how the use of digital technology can help to hold accountable those who commit human rights crimes. Transcript Todd Landman 0:01 Welcome to The Rights Track podcast, which gets the hard facts about the human rights challenges facing us today. In series seven, we're discussing human rights in a...

Democracy assaulted: are we our own worst enemy?

The Rights Track

In Episode 7 of Series 7 of The Rights Track, Todd is joined by Tom Nichols, Professor Emeritus of National Security Affairs at the U.S. Naval War College and Contributing Writer at The Atlantic. Tom specialises in international security affairs including U.S. - Russia relations, nuclear strategy, and NATO issues. His recent book – is an account of the spread of illiberal and anti-democratic sentiment throughout our culture. Transcript Todd Landman 00:00 Welcome to The Rights Track podcast, which gets the hard facts about the human rights challenges facing us today. In...

Communicating human rights

The Rights Track

Todd was invited to talk about Communicating Human Rights by Pembroke College Oxford and used the opportunity to discuss the motivation behind The Rights Track Podcast and what has been achieved by the podcast over 7 series to date. He joins Professor Alison Brysk to discuss how o new forms of global communication foster rights campaigns and human rights education. Watch the talks and discussions here

Liberating our minds in a digital world: how do we do it?

The Rights Track

In Episode 6 of Series 7 of The Rights Track, we're joined by Susie Alegre, an international human rights lawyer and associate at Doughty Street Chambers specialising in digital rights. Susie's work focuses in particular on the impact of technology and AI on the rights to freedom of thought and opinion. Her recently published book - Freedom to Think: The Long Struggle to Liberate Our Minds – explores how the powerful have always sought to influence how we think and what we buy. And today we are asking her how do we liberate our minds in a modern digital world? Transcript Todd...

Using prison data to reduce incarceration

The Rights Track

In Episode 5 of Series 7 of The Rights Track, Todd is in conversation with , Director of Partnerships at – a team of technologists committed to getting decision makers the data they need to drive better criminal justice outcomes. Transcript Todd Landman 0:00 Welcome to the Rights Track podcast, which gets the hard facts about the human rights challenges facing us today. In series seven, we're discussing human rights in a digital world. I'm Todd Landman, in this episode, I'm delighted to be joined by Amrit Dhir. Amrit is the Director of Partnerships at...

An optimist's view: What makes data good?

The Rights Track

In Episode 4 of Series 7 of The Rights Track, Todd is in conversation with Sam Gilbert, an entrepreneur and affiliated researcher at the Bennett Institute for Public Policy at the University of Cambridge. Sam works on the intersection of politics and technology. His recent book –  – explores the different ways data helps us, suggesting that “the data revolution could be the best thing that ever happened to us”. Transcript Todd Landman 0:01 Welcome to The Rights Track podcast which gets the hard facts about the human rights challenges facing us today. In Series...

Dizzying digital change: how is it disrupting our lives and our world?

The Rights Track

In Episode 3 of Series 7 of The Rights Track, , Bennett Professor of Public Policy at the University of Cambridge and co-director of the joins Todd to discuss the dizzying digital changes over the last 25 years, how it has disrupted the economy and impacted on our lives. Transcript Todd Landman 0:01 Welcome to The Rights Track podcast which gets the hard facts about the human rights challenges facing us today. In Series 7, we're discussing human rights in a digital world. I'm Todd Landman, in our third episode of the series, I'm delighted to be joined by Professor Diane...

Getting to grips with the grammar of human rights

The Rights Track

In Episode 2 of Series 7 of The Rights Track, Martin Scheinen, British Academy Global Professor at the University of Oxford and a member of the Scientific Committee of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency joins Todd to discuss whether the grammar of human rights law can cope with multiple challenges of the digital realm.

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In this first of two special episodes of The Rights Track, Todd reflects on what has been learned about the advancement of human rights from our podcast since it was launched in 2015.