Presented by the SCGA
Professors Helen Duffy & Christian Tams discuss the Declaration’s origins and progress, its universality and efficacy, and its application as the bedrock for binding human rights – not solely in situations of armed conflict.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was signed in Paris 75 years ago.
Professor Helen Duffy, Professor of International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at the Grotius Centre of Leiden University and Director of Human Rights in Practice, joins Professor Christian Tams.
They discuss the Declaration’s origins and progress, its universality and efficacy, and its application as the bedrock for binding human rights – not solely in situations of armed conflict.
- Human Rights Day 2023
- Drafting and Relevance of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- Hadijatou Mani Koraou v The Republic of Niger, Judgement of 27 October 2008
- University of Glasgow, LLM in Human Rights
- Glasgow Human Rights Network – a hub for human rights academics and practitioners
The Podcast will be available on your favourite platform – just search for ‘Scottish Council on Global Affairs’ – and is directly hosted at Acast. We’ve embedded the episode here below if you’re looking for an instant playback.
