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Why we need an Institute for Human Rights - Audio is a society podcast hosted by UCL. It has 1 episodes, with the latest published October 2009.

The UCL Institute for Human Rights was established in October 2009. Itbrings together expertise in Laws, Political Science, Economics,Epidemiology and Public Health with student activists, non-governmentalorganisations and other parties to undertake rounded research that caninfluence human rights policy around the world.In the wake of David Cameron's renewed commitment to abolish the HumanRights Act in the UK should the Conservatives come to power, Dr SaladinMeckled-Garcia, co-founder of the UCL Institute for Human Rights, discusseswhy the time is ripe for this kind of cross-disciplinary work - and theimplications of the Leader of the Opposition's stance.

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