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On Wednesday 10 December 2014, Human Rights Day, the Equal Rights Trust will launch Economic and Social Rights in the Courtroom: A Litigators’ Guide to Using Equality and Non-Discrimination Strategies to Advance Economic and Social Rights, at Matrix Chambers in London.

On Friday 17 October 2014, the Equal Rights Trust and the Institute for Human Rights and Peace Studies Mahidol University (IHRP) will launch two major new reports on the human rights of stateless Rohingya in Malaysia and Thailand.

In addition to analysing the discrimination and inequality faced by the Rohingya and recommending steps to combat it, the reports, Equal Only in Name, reveal less well known patterns of discrimination against one of the most excluded, persecuted and vulnerable communities in the world.

London, 24 April 2014

The Equal Rights Trust (ERT) and University College London Human Rights Institute (UCL HRI) cordially invite you to a panel discussion entitled “Does Affirmative Action Create Unfair Advantage?” on Thursday 19 June 2014.

Time: 18.00 to 19.30 followed by a reception.

Place: Faculty of Laws, UCL, Endsleigh Gardens, London.

London, 26 April 2013
 
The Equal Rights Trust (ERT) and University College London Institute for Human Rights (UCL IHR) cordially invite you to a panel discussion entitled “Poverty and Rights: Can and Should the Law Promote Socio-Economic Equality?” on Thursday 6 June 2013. 
 
Time: 18.00 to 19.30 followed by a reception
Place: Faculty of Laws, UCL, Bentham, House, Endsleigh Gardens, London. 

London, 22 November 2012

The Equal Rights Trust (ERT) and the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy cordially invite you to a panel discussion titled “Democratisation, Securitisation and Human Rights in Burma: Where do the Rohingya fit in?” on Friday 30 November at 6pm – Room B102, Brunei Gallery, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), Russell Square. The discussion will focus on the present crisis faced by Rohingya in Burma, and future prospects for this stateless community in the country. The panellists will look at this issue in the context of a Burma that is haltingly moving towards democracy but still unable to move beyond the long shadow of its authoritarian regime.

London, 30 March 2012 

The Equal Rights Trust and the Human Rights Lawyers Association invite you to a panel discussion: Advancing Sexual Rights in the “Developing World”: The Politics of Human Rights Interventionism  10 May 2012, 18:30-20:00 The Bloomsbury Suite, Friends House, 173-177 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BJ

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