BOOK YOUR PLACE: barbara.lodge@alumni.york.ac.uk The film, directed by Nejla Demirci, was released last year. It focuses on the challenges faced by Yasemin, a doctor, and Engin, a teacher, who lost their civil service jobs under post-coup emergency decree-laws issued by the AKP government in 2016. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) government […]
Click here to sign up: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeO7zyaYIimnk6otlpta7E0R6liff6SH0VbzYdmEPG0EeMHeg/viewform Our everyday rights include things like a decent job, enough to eat, a healthy environment, and the chance to learn. They also include the ‘right of everyone to an adequate standard of living ..., including adequate food, clothing and housing’ (article 11 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social […]
Click here to sign up: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdMlzd3y6nFJHI-NcL4vi1IJSko4QPbeMNjk1KpzdwTNWQ3Dg/viewform This session will introduce ‘the right to health’ and what it means, including; having access to quality and timely healthcare and the underlying determinants of health, like food, housing and a healthy environment. It will then explore how health rights are more relevant than ever in the UK […]
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSen2F_88S79CF_RrHdrN8mL8MqyhEuf6C0-T1UFXPiD9-0lfw/viewform This seminar will investigate how we can bring together thinking and campaigning on human rights and environmental rights across the UK, to work towards a better future for everyone, particularly those at the sharp end of rights violations. This session will seek to understand: What is happening internationally in terms of the right […]