The Right to a Healthy Environment: The Time is Now!
By Kerry Pearson Greta Thunberg: ‘you say you love your children above all else, and yet you are stealing their future in front of their...
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Leeds Human Rights Editorial Board Roles
Applications for the 2022/23 Editorial Board are now open. The deadline is Sunday 12th of June 2022. Email us at smlhrj@leeds.ac.uk with your CV and...
International Women's Day Event: Women in Focus
By Poppy Cohen On the 8th March 2021, the Leeds Human Rights Journal ran an event with POLIS Society called ‘Women in Focus’ in...
A President’s Military Powers: The Last Pillar of Bi-Partisanship?
By Jack Valentine In the early hours of Friday 26th February, President Joe Biden carried out his first military action as President of the...
The Catalan Election Results and The Fight for Independence
By Samuel Blencoe On Sunday 14th of February or Valentine's Day, voters in Catalonia went to the polls to elect a new regional parliament and...
The Link Between Climate Change and Human Rights
By Valentina Casulli Inaction surrounding the climate crisis may be the biggest human rights violation the world has ever seen. In the 1970s, fossil fuel...
Varosha: From Ghost Town to Picnic Place
By Sotiris Paphitis The island of Cyprus has been torn in two since the illegal military invasion of 1974. The invasion resulted in thousands of deaths,...
The Threat of Authoritarianism to Spanish Democracy
By Samuel Blencoe For 39 years, from 1939 to 1978, Spaniards lived under a brutal authoritarian regime led by the fascist dictator Francisco Franco. This...
Overseas Operations (service personnel and veterans) Bill
By Lawrence Wilde Easily one of the most controversial pieces of legislation is to be introduced this year, the Overseas Operations Bill, (currently in the...
Uyghur Human Rights Crisis Event
By Zahra Iqbal On the 12th November, the Human Rights Journal held an event with Uyghur Rights Activist Aydin Anwar, the event aimed to educate...