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The Freedom Rights Project is a research initiative that addresses two big questions: What has gone wrong with international human rights? How can we fix it?
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Date: 23 May 2013
Collision! Reviewed in The Economist
Collision! Free Speech and Religion, an 18 minute documentary by Freedom Rights Project’s Jacob Mchangama, is reviewed in The Economist’s Erasmus blog: ”I agree with Mr Mchangama that blasphemy laws, implicitly threatening to use the state’s coercive might to punish irreverent speech, are both undesirable in themselves, and an ineffective way to ensure social harmony.” More here.
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Date: 17 May 2013
UN Reviews Show Dysfunction of HR Discourse
Under the United Nation’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process, each member state’s human rights record is examined every four years. But the UPR is falling victim, not only to the bad faith of some member states, but also to the way human rights has come to be conceived, write the Freedom Rights Project’s Jacob Mchangama and Aaron Rhodes in the Huffington Post.
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Date: 17 May 2013
Collision! New Documentary on Free Speech
This 18 minute documentary program, written and presented by Freedom Rights Project’s Jacob Mchangama, focuses on the global battle of values over the relationship between free speech and religious sensitivities. In a globalized world this conflict has become explosive as cartoons published in Denmark and videos uploaded in America have led to violent riots from Cairo to Karachi. “Collision!” traces the experie
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