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• Thu 14 Feb 19 · Lady Winifred Burghclere and her four troublesome daughters (Probus Club of Llandaff,, Llandaff, Cardiff)

• Tue 15 Jan 19 · Lab Rats: Why Modern Work Makes People Miserable (Conway Hall, London)

• Thu 11 Oct 18 · "Leo Abse and the Reform of the Sexual Offences Acts" (Blaenavon Local History Society, Blaenavon)

• Wed 23 Nov 16 · Prospects for a solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict, with David Turner (Central London Humanist Group, London)

• Sat 2 Jul 16 · On Being a Woman Writer: Nawal El Saadawi in Conversation (British Library, London)

• Wed 27 Apr 16 · The Trade Union Bill: A necessary progression or troublesome precedent? (St James's Church, London)

• Thu 14 Jan 16 · Worldwide Reading for Ashraf Fayadh (The Mosaic Rooms, London)

• Tue 1 Dec 15 · A British-Owned Congo: Roger Casement’s Battle with Slavery in Peru (1910-1914) (Conway Hall, London)

• Tue 27 Oct 15 · Housing Shortage: what should we be campaigning for? (St James's Church, London)

• Mon 26 Oct 15 · Data shadow: Anonymity is our only right, and that is why it must be destroyed (St John's Divinity School, Cambridge)

• Wed 16 Sep 15 · TTIP: A Debate (St Mary-le-Bow Church, London)

• Wed 15 Jul 15 · The Slaves Next Door (St James's Church, London)

• Sun 14 Jun 15 · Art versus Genocide – Armenian Survival (Conway Hall, London)

• Wed 10 Jun 15 · Should Humanists Eat Animals? by Phil Walder (Conway Hall, London)

• Thu 19 Mar 15 · Penny Lecture | Does Female Representation Matter? (Morley College, London)

• Tue 17 Mar 15 · Beneath the Blindfold (Amnesty International, The Human Rights Action Centre, London)

• Thu 11 Dec 14 · 'Everyone is entitled…' The global struggle for women's human rights (Sheikh Zayed Theatre (New Academic Building, LSE), London)

• Thu 13 Nov 14 · London Thinks: Nate Phelps - Leaving Hate Behind (Conway Hall, London)

• Thu 6 Nov 14 · On Fantasy Island: British politics, English judges and the European Convention on Human Rights (Old Theatre, Old Building, London)

• Sun 26 Oct 14 · Thinking on Sunday: Humanism in India (Conway Hall, London)

• Thu 23 Oct 14 · . 'From Socialist Korea to Ferguson: connecting Asian and Black radical legacies and solidarity' - M (Housmans Bookshop, London)

• Thu 9 Oct 14 · London Thinks: Shouting Back (Conway Hall, London)

• Thu 2 Oct 14 · Human Rights Diplomacy: inside the United Nations (Sheikh Zayed Theatre (New Academic Building, LSE), London)

• Wed 28 May 14 · Play / Space: innovation in the 21st century metropolis (The Information Project (London), London)

• Sat 3 May 14 · The State of Freedom in Britain (Sheikh Zayed Theatre (New Academic Building, LSE), London)

• Thu 1 May 14 · Human Rights, Globalisation and How to Save the World (Sheikh Zayed Theatre, London)

• Sun 30 Mar 14 · Sex Work, Ethics and Human Rights (Conway Hall, London)

• Thu 13 Mar 14 · Access to Justice and Extractive Industries ( Hong Kong Theatre, London)

• Wed 5 Mar 14 · A Question of Law (Sheikh Zayed Theatre (New Academic Building, LSE), London)

• Wed 19 Feb 14 · Gujarat: human rights violations, impunity and the Indian general elections (Sheikh Zayed Theatre (New Academic Building, LSE), London)

• Sun 2 Feb 14 · Freeloaders on the Land (Conway Hall, London)

• Wed 29 Jan 14 · Pride and Propaganda: LGBT rights in Russia today (Old Theatre, Old Building, London)

• Mon 28 Oct 13 · Preview Screening: The Engineer + Q&A (Frontline Club, London)

• Wed 23 Oct 13 · "Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here": the human rights struggle against Muslim fundamentalism (Old Theatre, London)

• Thu 17 Oct 13 · Granta 125: After the War - with Lindsey Hilsum and Frances Harrison (Frontline Club, London)

• Sun 9 Jun 13 · One Law for All (Conway Hall, London)

• Tue 14 May 13 · The Legal Method: Pathway to Truth or Truncheon for the Powerful? (UEA London, London)

• Sun 5 May 13 · Sunday Lecture - Human rights: are women human enough to have human rights? (SPES, London)

• Thu 25 Apr 13 · Against a Tide of Evil: Genocide in Darfur (The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, London)

• Tue 12 Mar 13 · The Commonwealth: Reform, Relevance and Future Role (NAB 1.07, London)

• Thu 7 Mar 13 · The End of Impunity for Violence against Women? The Istanbul Convention in Europe (Sheikh Zayed Theatre, London)

• Sat 2 Mar 13 · The Power of Literature and Human Rights (Wolfson Theatre, London)

• Fri 1 Mar 13 · Austerity on Trial (Sheikh Zayed Theatre, London)

• Wed 20 Feb 13 · EVENT CANCELLED: Humanitarian Legalism (Sheikh Zayed Theatre, London)

• Tue 19 Feb 13 · Liberty and Security in the World Today: why we are all neo-democrats and what we should do about it (Old Theatre, London)

• Fri 15 Feb 13 · Freedom of Expression and Hate Speech: What International Human Rights Law Says (Old Theatre, London)

• Thu 14 Feb 13 · In Conversation with Jean-Paul Costa (Hong Kong Theatre, London)

• Wed 6 Feb 13 · The Global Theft of Land: human rights, dispossession and destruction (Sheikh Zayed Theatre, London)

• Tue 22 Jan 13 · In Conversation with Lucy Scott-Moncrieff (New Theatre, London)

• Sat 8 Dec 12 · University of Dundee Christmas Lecture 2012 (Dalhousie Building, Dundee)

• Thu 6 Dec 12 · Putting Rights Back Together Again (Old Theatre, London)

• Mon 26 Nov 12 · When Gay People Get Married (New Theatre, London)

• Mon 26 Nov 12 · Screening: In the Shadow of the Sun + Q&A (Frontline Club, London)

• Thu 22 Nov 12 · European Rights vs Bill of Rights (Sheikh Zayed Theatre, London)

• Tue 6 Nov 12 · The Stateless Citizen: irregular migration and cosmopolitan citizenship (London School of Economics & Political Science, London)

• Thu 1 Nov 12 · Preview Screening: Call Me Kuchu + Q&A (Frontline Club, London)

• Wed 31 Oct 12 · Workshop: How to protect and make money from your designs (Own-it, 272 High Holborn)

• Tue 23 Oct 12 · Secularism, Human Rights and the Middle East: challenges and reflections (Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House, London)

• Tue 9 Oct 12 · Black Consciousness, Black Theology, Student Activism and the Shaping of the New South Africa (Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building, London)

• Fri 5 Oct 12 · WHAT DOES THE FUTURE HOLD FOR THE PEOPLE OF NORTH KOREA? (The Frontline Club, London)

• Wed 20 Jun 12 · Resisting intolerance: an ethical and global challenge (LSE campus, venue TBC to ticketholders, London)

• Mon 2 Apr 12 · What Would an Evidence-Based Copyright Law Look Like? (Old Theatre, Old Building, London)

• Thu 29 Mar 12 · China Inside Out (English PEN, London)

• Tue 20 Mar 12 · Citizens Privileges or Human Rights? The Great Bill of Rights Swindle (Old Theatre, Old Building, London)

• Sat 28 Jan 12 · 'Blasphemy!' - blasphemy, religious hatred, and human rights: who speaks for the sacred? (Conway Hall, London)

• Thu 8 Dec 11 · Creating International Law: gender as a new paradigm (Old Theatre, London)

• Tue 15 Nov 11 · State Violence and the Responsibility to Protect: the role of the international community (Hong Kong Theatre, London)

• Tue 1 Nov 11 · Stolen – Uncovering Child Trafficking in the UK (Hong Kong Theatre, London)

• Thu 27 Oct 11 · Internet Freedom (Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, Cambridge)

• Mon 24 Oct 11 · Necropolitics, Narcopolitics and Femicide: Reflections from the Mexico-US Border (New Theatre, London)

• Fri 21 Oct 11 · Insight with Nawal El Saadawi (Frontline Club, London)

• Wed 19 Oct 11 · Art & Compromise VII: Julian Stallabrass with Clive Stafford Smith (Beaconsfield, London)

• Wed 5 Oct 11 · Hellenism, Universal Rights and Apartheid (Old Theatre, London)

• Wed 28 Sep 11 · Wendy Savage: Patients' Choice and Doctors' Responsibilities (Newington Green Unitarian Church, London)

• Wed 28 Sep 11 · Neoliberalism in Retreat: a new deal for Latin American women? (Old Theatre, London)

• Thu 21 Jul 11 · Clive Stafford Smith in conversation with Shahzad Akbar on Drones (Beaconsfield, London)

• Wed 13 Jul 11 · Phone-hacking: is it time to get tough on the press? (Old Theatre, London)

• Thu 9 Jun 11 · A Fair Trial for the Human Rights Act (Old Theatre, London)

• Thu 12 May 11 · The Right to Die (Sheikh Zayed Theatre, London)

• Thu 12 May 11 · The DNA of Human Rights (Sheikh Zayed Theatre, London)

• Tue 5 Apr 11 · An Evening With Peter Tatchell (Oval House Theatre, London)

• Wed 23 Mar 11 · The Virtues of Violence and the Arts of Terror (Sheikh Zayed Theatre, London)

• Thu 10 Mar 11 · Climate Change needs Climate Justice (Old Theatre, London)

• Mon 7 Mar 11 · Why Human Rights and Democracy are Critical to overcome Poverty (Sheikh Zayed Theatre, London)

• Sun 6 Mar 11 · Speciesism and Painism: A Modern Morality (Conway Hall, London)

• Tue 1 Mar 11 · The EU and Human rights. Where are we going? (City University London, London)

• Tue 1 Mar 11 · Nuclear Arms and Human Rights (Old Theatre, London)

• Sun 27 Feb 11 · Anne Frank Revisited (Royal National Hotel, Bloomsbury)

• Thu 17 Feb 11 · This House Believes that the Future of Rights is Left not Right (Wolfson Theatre, London)

• Wed 16 Feb 11 · Representing Atrocity: distant suffering and the politics of pity (Hong Kong Theatre, London)

• Thu 10 Feb 11 · Talk by Aua Balde - African Human Rights System : A Lusophone Guide (Centre for African Studies, SOAS, London)

• Wed 19 Jan 11 · The Net Delusion: Does free information mean free people? (Sheikh Zayed Theatre, London)

• Thu 9 Dec 10 · European democracies and human rights: from present failures to future protection (Old Theatre, London)

• Wed 1 Dec 10 · Lansdown Lecture: The Content Conundrum - 21st Century media (Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts, Barnet)

• Wed 1 Dec 10 · The Physico-Material Bases of Cosmopolitanism (Sheikh Zayed Theatre, London)

• Thu 18 Nov 10 · Impunity in Cambodia (Old Theatre, London)

• Thu 4 Nov 10 · Seeking Justice For Crimes Against Humanity: the case of Argentina (Old Theatre, London)

• Thu 28 Oct 10 · Celebrating the Work and Legacy of Professor Lord Meghnad Desai (Old Theatre, London)

• Wed 6 Oct 10 · The Rights' Future (Sheikh Zayed Theatre, London)

• Wed 8 Sep 10 · The Case of the Pope: Vatican Accountability for Human Rights Abuse (Sheikh Zayed Theatre, London)

• Thu 8 Jul 10 · Global Justice (Sheikh Zayed Theatre, London)

• Fri 2 Jul 10 · Voicing Histories (The Women's Library, London)

• Fri 18 Jun 10 · Privacy and Public Policy (Rupert Beckett Lecture Theatre, Leeds)

• Thu 17 Jun 10 · The Untold Story of Cornelia Sorabji - Reformer, Lawyer and Champion of Women's Rights in India (Gresham College, London)

• Thu 10 Jun 10 · Feminism Forty Years On: Do we still need it? (The Women's Library, London)

• Thu 20 May 10 · HIV/AIDS and Disability: new research findings from Kenya (New Theatre, London)

• Sat 17 Apr 10 · Zimbabwe 30 years on: Rights, challenges and opportunities (Unite, London)

• Thu 15 Apr 10 · Teenage Motherhood: Policy problem or feminist cause? (The Women's Library, London)

• Tue 23 Mar 10 · The Small Question of Religion: Faith and Rights in the Workplace (Queen Mary, University of London, London)

• Sat 20 Mar 10 · Self-publishing and Liberation (The Women's Library, London)

• Tue 16 Mar 10 · Civil Partnerships (The Museum of London, London)

• Wed 10 Mar 10 · From Natural Rights to General Liberty: Slavery, Emancipation and the Origins of Human Rights (Taylor Institution Library, Oxford)

• Fri 5 Mar 10 · The Future Development of International Criminal Justice: An Interdisciplinary Approach (London School of Economics & Political Science, London)

• Wed 3 Mar 10 · Basic Human Rights: the Enlightenment battle over the place of God and religion (1770-89) (Taylor Institution Library, Oxford)

• Fri 26 Feb 10 · My Happiness: Right or Wrong? (Taylor Institution Library, Oxford)

• Wed 24 Feb 10 · Lesbian Love/ Hate Letters (The Women's Library, London)

• Thu 14 Jan 10 · Does God Believe in Human Rights (The Museum of London, London)

• Tue 15 Dec 09 · Looking Forward to 2010: Privacy, Human Rights and the Law (Friends Meeting House, London)

• Wed 11 Nov 09 · Professor Lord Patel of Bradford, OBE (The Queens Building, De Montfort University, Leicester)

• Fri 9 Oct 09 · UCL Jurisprudence Review Launch 2009 (UCL, London)

• Tue 29 Sep 09 · How to protect your ideas and make money – How not to get ripped off (Module 1) (Own-it, 272 High Holborn)

• Wed 1 Jul 09 · How Not to get Ripped Off (Own-it, 272 High Holborn)

• Thu 18 Jun 09 · Body image: the impact of magazines (The Women's Library, London)

• Wed 10 Jun 09 · "Multiculturalism and Free Speech" by Lord Lester of Herne Hill, QC , INTERIGHTS (The Queens Building, De Montfort University, Leicester)

• Thu 4 Jun 09 · A Conversation between Bill Gates Sr. and A Conversation between Bill Gates Sr. and Howard Davies (London School of Economics & Political Science, London)

• Thu 7 May 09 · The International Politics of Minority Issues: could the early 1900s return? (U8, Tower One, London Schoold of Economics and Political Science, London)

• Thu 7 May 09 · Human Rights after Darwin: is a general theory of human rights now possible? (Old Theatre, London School of Economics & Political Science, London)

• Tue 5 May 09 · The Bill of Rights and Responsibilities Debate: Liberal Democrats perspective (Mander Hall, London)

• Tue 21 Apr 09 · The Bill of Rights and Responsibilities Debate: the Government’s perspective (Mander Hall, London)

• Fri 17 Apr 09 · Islam, Human Rights and Homophobia (Conway Hall, London)

• Thu 19 Feb 09 · IHL and International Human Rights Law in Non-International Armed Conflicts (Hong Kong Theatre, London School of Economics &Political Science, London)

• Fri 30 Jan 09 · In times of trouble (Institute of Psychoanalysis, London)

• Wed 28 Jan 09 · Changing the Face of Human Rights (Conference Centre, London)

• Sun 25 Jan 09 · Revisiting Tom Paine (Leicester Secular Society, Leicester)

• Sun 18 Jan 09 · The Law and Religion (Leicester Secular Society, Leicester)

• Thu 15 Jan 09 · State Terrorism - A Thing of the Past? (Hong Kong Theatre, London School of Economics &Political Science, London)

• Thu 4 Dec 08 · Human Rights Day Event: The Right of Rights 1948-2008 (Old Theatre, London School of Economics & Political Science, London)

• Wed 12 Nov 08 · The Creator's guide to Going Mobile - a digital revolution made simple (Accelerator, London)

• Wed 12 Nov 08 · Human Rights in United Nations Action: Norms, Institutions, and Leadership (Sheikh Zayed Theatre, London School of Economics, London)

• Thu 23 Oct 08 · The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Clarification Process on the Notion of Direct Pa (Hong Kong Theatre, London School of Economics &Political Science, London)

• Wed 22 Oct 08 · Women's Status, Men's States (Sheikh Zayed Theatre, London School of Economics, London)

• Thu 16 Oct 08 · Inhuman and Degrading Treatment: the words themselves (Sheikh Zayed Theatre, London School of Economics, London)

• Tue 7 Oct 08 · The International Criminal Court ten years on: achievements and challenges ahead (Old Theatre, London School of Economics & Political Science, London)

• Thu 2 Oct 08 · 2007/2008 UCL Jurisprudence Review Launch: Feminism & Human Rights (UCL, London)

• Mon 21 Jul 08 · Screening: Tortured Truth (Frontline Club, London)

• Thu 12 Jun 08 · RSA Thursday - Key Challenges to Humanitarianism (RSA, London)

• Thu 22 May 08 · RSA Thursday: Torture and Democracy (RSA, London)

• Mon 12 May 08 · McMafia: Crime without frontiers (Old Theatre, London School of Economics & Political Science, London)

• Fri 2 May 08 · “Libel Tourism”: The Chilling Effect on Free Speech (Foreign Press Association, London)

• Thu 1 May 08 · Religious Faith and Human Rights (Old Theatre, London School of Economics & Political Science, London)

• Wed 12 Mar 08 · Human Rights and Europe (UCL, London)

• Wed 12 Mar 08 · Frontline Confidential with Paul Radu (The Frontline Club, London)

• Thu 14 Feb 08 · Insight with Matthew Green- In Search of Africa's Most Wanted War Criminal (The Frontline Club, London)

• Wed 6 Feb 08 · The Politics of Aids Exceptionalism (Hong Kong Theatre, London School of Economics &Political Science, London)

• Sun 9 Dec 07 · Documenting our Rights of Way in Leicester (Leicester Secular Society, Leicester)

• Thu 6 Dec 07 · Human Rights in the 21st century: problems and prospects (Old Theatre, London)

• Thu 29 Nov 07 · "Economist Debate: The Beijing Olympics will allow China to fool the world" (The Royal Society of Medicine, London)

• Sat 27 Oct 07 · Privacy is dead. Long live privacy? (Royal College of Art, London)

• Thu 25 Oct 07 · Centre for the Study of Human Rights panel discussion (Old Theatre, London)

• Thu 11 Oct 07 · Litigating Human Rights in the Context of International Terrorism (New Theatre, London)

• Sun 7 Oct 07 · Believer and Unbeliever: which is the Protected Species (Leicester Secular Society, Leicester)

• Sat 6 Oct 07 · Poetry and Words of Protest. Equiano to the Present Day. (Keats House, London)

• Thu 4 Oct 07 · The Challenges of Development and Environmental Sustainability in Africa: the case of Rwanda (Old Theatre, London)

• Mon 16 Jul 07 · Should genocide denial be an offence? (Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London)

• Thu 12 Jul 07 · Palestine Film Series: Gaza Strip (Secular Hall, Leicester)

• Mon 14 May 07 · Globalisation, Labour Standards and Women’s Rights: dilemmas of collective (in) action in an interde (New Theatre, London)

• Thu 10 May 07 · Action for Refugees (Secular Hall, Leicester)

• Thu 3 May 07 · Do War Crime Trials Do More Harm Than Good? (Old Theatre, London)

• Tue 17 Apr 07 · Human Rights: Common Values, Common Sense (National Portrait Gallery, London)

• Thu 15 Mar 07 · What’s Wrong with the UN? (Old Theatre, London)

• Thu 25 Jan 07 · The Uses and Misuses of the Penal State in the 21st Century (Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford)

• Mon 22 Jan 07 · Freedom of Expression in Africa (The Frontline Club, London)

• Thu 18 Jan 07 · “New” and “Old” Institutions for the Mentally Ill: Treatment, Punishment, or Preventive Confinement? (Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford)

• Wed 17 Jan 07 · The Media and Criminal Justice: The Loop of Disinformation (Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford)

• Wed 13 Dec 06 · How Not To Get Ripped Off In Theatre (West Space, London)

• Tue 21 Nov 06 · The Forbidden Zone: Environmental Information Denied in Russia (Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), London)

• Tue 7 Nov 06 · Ghost Planes, Night Flights and Secret Wars (Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London)

• Sat 16 Sep 06 · racism, liberty and the 'war on terror' (Conway Hall, London)

• Wed 14 Jun 06 · Corporations and Human Rights: Is it any of their Business? (Royal Academy of Engineering, London)

• Tue 13 Jun 06 · Rights, Freedoms and Democracy (International Students House, London)

• Thu 25 May 06 · Beyond a Joke? Cartoons and Human Rights (Royal Academy of Engineering, London)

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