The Royal Society of Medicine, Saturday 31 October 2009
The conference will provide an introduction to human rights and their application to health and access to healthcare. No prior expertise is required, just an interest in the topic of health as a human right.
Register to reserve a place
RSM Student Members are £5, non-RSM Students £15.
Certificates of attendance will be awarded on the day. All queries email

Should politicians be versed in moral philosophy? Reith lecturer Michael Sandel thinks so on this. Listen to this morning’s BBC Today Programme here

Francesca Klug writing in Liberty Central on the 7th October

That’s right - we’re even on the social junction that is FB! Event news, quick posts and all things human rights related in London - follow this Facebook link to become a fan and keep abreast of all things SHRP!

Hot off the press, produced by Liberty and written by Jesse Normon and Peter Oborne, is a timely and important Conservative defense of the Human Rights Act. Check it out!

Shiny new Climate Camp website is up and running - and only a week to go to prepare for the big swoop on London.
Don’t know what that is yet? Head on over to their website and get green by penciling in 27 AUG - 2 SEPT ‘09 and get involved!

The Law Society have organised a two day conference taking place on 11 & 12 September illustrating how you can get involved in human rights, and the positive contribution your professional skills can make to protecting human rights and the rule of law.

It will include a combination of information events, arts and informal networking sessions plus campaign strategy and advocacy workshops. Students get a discount (only £30 for the two days!) and the programme is accredited for 4 hours CPD points per day. Take a look at the running schedule http://tinyurl.com/n7ju2g

Well worth a daily read, the Orwell Diaries have been online since 9th August 2008, blogging George Orwell’s diaries from 1938 in real time, 70 years to the day since each entry was originally written. The diaries start as Orwell heads to Morocco (with his wife Eileen) to recuperate from injury and illness, and end in 1942 (or 2012) as the Second World War rages. Bookmark it now!

Refugee Week 2009 has been and gone - but don’t let that stop you sifting through the great wads of interactive info and resources, plus the highlights and their Simple Acts campaign. http://www.refugeeweek.org.uk/

Presented by Amnesty International Irish Section in association with The Irish Times to mark 60 years of the UDHR, 31 stories by Irish writers reflecting on each of it’s 30 articles are now permanently available online.

The mini-site for constitutional renewal and the government’s green paper on Rights and Responsibilities can be found here, although is it enough for full constitutional renewal? What do you want from it? Read the green paper, get debating and join the UCL SHRP‘s consultation process soon by sending comments and registering your interest to

In association with the Human Rights and Equality Commission, the Guardian have been commissioned to produce a special section on the impact and effectiveness of human rights in the United Kingdom, and more specifically on the impact of the Human Rights Act. It’s quite simple: bookmark this page and check it out when you can http://tinyurl.com/ne485j

The campaign launch for Rally for Change is being held tonight at 6.30pm - take part, meet other activists and support the effort to get the Government to announce a referendum on electoral reform before the next General Election!

Yesterday Straw proposed new powers to prosecute war criminals in Britain aimed at closing the gap in law to cover UK nationals and residents accused of war crimes dating back to 1991

Another great episode setting the cultural agenda on Start the Week on BBC Radio 4 - catch it over your morning coffee as Andrew Marr talks to Arundhati Roy about democracy and Timothy Garton Ash about subversive facts. Plus Karen Armstrong on the case for God and Hermione Lee on the shifting fashions in biography.