Centre of Governance and Human Rights
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| Description: | The Centre of Governance and Human Rights draws together experts, practitioners and policymakers from Cambridge University and far beyond to think critically and innovatively about pressing governance and human rights issues throughout the world. CGHR organises a range of research seminars and public events throughout the year, tied to our emerging research priorities. Many are recorded and accessible from SMS or our website. |
Media items
This collection contains 37 media items.
Media items
A matter of life and death: The struggle for Ugandan gay rights
David Cato, Advocacy/Litigation officer at Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), in conversation with Dr Andy Tucker (Deputy Director, University of Cambridge Centre for Gender...
Collection: Centre of Governance and Human Rights
Institution: Department of Politics and International Studies
Created: Sat 27 Mar 2010
About the Centre of Governance and Human Rights
Collection: Centre of Governance and Human Rights
Institution: Department of Politics and International Studies
Created: Mon 29 Mar 2010
Dr Laurens Bakker, 'State of Anxiety: Ongoing research on security and sovereign practices in Indonesia'
Audio of presentation by Dr Bakker as part of Centre of Governance and Human Rights Research Group (http://www.polis.cam.ac.uk/cghr/research_research_group.html).
Collection: Centre of Governance and Human Rights
Institution: Department of Politics and International Studies
Created: Mon 13 Dec 2010
Lecture by Francis Deng at Launch of Centre of Governance and Human Rights, 18 November 2009
The Centre of Governance and Human Rights was launched by the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) on 18 November 2009. An Inaugural Lecture was delivered by...
Collection: Centre of Governance and Human Rights
Institution: Department of Politics and International Studies
Created: Mon 29 Mar 2010
Preventing Violent Attacks on Education in Afghanistan: Considering the Role of Community-Based Schools
Dr Burde's paper drew on observational data of community-based schools in Afghanistan to examine the types of violence that affects education in Afghanistan and to explore the...
Collection: Centre of Governance and Human Rights
Institution: Department of Politics and International Studies
Created: Tue 23 Nov 2010
SMS Uprising: How mobiles are changing the public sphere in Africa
A seminar discussion with the editor of (Sokari Ekine) and a contributor to (Ken Banks) a new edited book – SMS Uprising: Mobile Activism in Africa (Fahamu, 2009) – which is the...
Collection: Centre of Governance and Human Rights
Institution: Department of Politics and International Studies
Created: Thu 4 Feb 2010
Truth be Told? Debating the Human Rights records of Southern Africa's Liberation Movements in Exile
On the eve of celebrating the twentieth anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s release from prison, the Centre of Governance and Human Rights (CG+HR) hosted a roundtable discussion at...
Collection: Centre of Governance and Human Rights
Institution: Department of Politics and International Studies
Created: Thu 11 Feb 2010
Truth be Told? Debating the Human Rights records of Southern Africa's Liberation Movements in Exile
On the eve of celebrating the twentieth anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s release from prison, the Centre of Governance and Human Rights (CG+HR) hosted a roundtable discussion at...
Collection: Centre of Governance and Human Rights
Institution: Department of Politics and International Studies
Created: Mon 22 Feb 2010
What Explains Diverging Paths of Genocidal Violence? Evidence from Rwanda, Sudan, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, Chad and Senegal
Dr Scott Straus discusses his recent work on a comparative study of different trajectories of violence in civil war. The study focuses empirically on relatively recent (during the...
Collection: Centre of Governance and Human Rights
Institution: Department of Politics and International Studies
Created: Tue 25 May 2010
Scholars at Risk: Human Rights and Academic Freedom
An event co-organised by the Centre of Governance and Human Rights (CG+HR), Cambridge, The Council for Assisting Refugee Academics (CARA) and CRASSH, in which refugee academics...
Collection: CRASSH
Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Created: Tue 8 Jun 2010
Deliberating new media: creating alternative politics in the Middle East and Africa?
The New Media / Alternative Politics conference on 14-16 October debated the relationship between communication technologies and political change in the Middle East and Africa....
Collection: CRASSH
Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Created: Tue 7 Dec 2010
A Quiet Media Revolution? Mediatization, altered media geographies and insurgent citizen tactics
Thomas Tufte discusses how civic action and participation in social change in Tanzania is being effected by access to new, more interactive, civil society created media platforms.
Collection: Centre of Governance and Human Rights
Institution: Department of Politics and International Studies
Created: Mon 24 Oct 2011
ExPRESSion RePRESSion: International efforts to protect journalists at risk
Targeted violence against journalists is on the rise and in January 2012 alone, 10 journalists were killed worldwide. But why are journalists finding it more rather than less...
Collection: Centre of Governance and Human Rights
Institution: Department of Politics and International Studies
Created: Thu 8 Mar 2012
ExpressionRepressioninterviews
Quickfire interviews with participants in the CGHR ExpressionRepression event and expert meeting on the Safety of Journalists. with Christof Heyns, Pansy Tlakula, Frank La Rue and...
Collection: Centre of Governance and Human Rights
Institution: Department of Politics and International Studies
Created: Tue 26 Feb 2013
Kenyan Elections Panel Discussion
A panel discussion on the 2013 Kenyan elections with Professor John Lonsdale (Trinity College, Cambridge), Professor Bruce Berman (Queen's University, Canada) and Ms Njoki Wamai...
Collection: Centre of Governance and Human Rights
Institution: Department of Politics and International Studies
Created: Fri 22 Mar 2013
Professor Francois Burgat : When Authoritarianism fails in the Arab World: understanding the recourse to the Muslim...
The French Embassy has generously sponsored a cycle of lectures and workshops which bring to Cambridge leading scholars from France to interact and foster research collaborations...
Collection: Centre of Governance and Human Rights
Institution: Department of Politics and International Studies
Created: Mon 25 Mar 2013
State Control over Private Military & Security Companies in Armed Conflict
Critically analyses the international obligations on three key states – the hiring state, the home state and the host state of a PMSC – and identifies the circumstances in which...
Collection: Centre of Governance and Human Rights
Institution: Department of Politics and International Studies
Created: Thu 13 Oct 2011
The Integration of Human Rights into Official Development Assistance: towards reorienting South Korea's ODA policy
Monday 24 January 2011, Senior Common Room, POLIS
Ms Soo Hee Choi (Visiting Associate at CGHR and International Relations Officer, Communications and Cooperation Division,...
Collection: Centre of Governance and Human Rights
Institution: Department of Politics and International Studies
Created: Wed 9 Feb 2011
"Autonomous Weapons Systems: The Future?" | A Public Lecture by the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or...
Professor Christof Heyns, UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, delivers a public lecture at the University of Cambridge on the challenges for...
Collection: Centre of Governance and Human Rights
Institution: Department of Politics and International Studies
Created: Wed 2 Jul 2014
20 years after the genocide in Rwanda: Presentation and reflections on the judicial process
To mark the 20th anniversary of the genocide committed in Rwanda in 1994, in May 2014 the Centre of Governance and Human Rights and RCN Justice & Démocratie hosted a discussion...
Collection: Centre of Governance and Human Rights
Institution: Department of Politics and International Studies
Created: Mon 2 Jun 2014