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Ali Struthers Organises Successful ESRC event on campus with primary and secondary school pupils
Ali Struthers organised a successful event on campus on the 11th of November with primary and secondary school pupils as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science. The event saw 60 primary pupils from Widening Participation schools attend campus in the morning and 60 secondary pupils from WP schools in the afternoon. The pupils took part in workshops that addressed challenging issues in the social sciences through literature appropriate to young people. The workshops were run by Ali (human rights), Phil Gaydon (war), James Harrison (labour rights) and Lucy Hatton (immigration), and the event was well-received by all who took part.
Read about James' experience of his morning workshop here.
Event: Can Law Stop the Demolition of a Bedouin School in the West Bank? Spotlight on al-Khan al-Ahmar
On Friday 4th November at Conway Hall in London Alice Panepinto hosted a public event on 'Can Law Stop the Demolition of a Bedouin School in the West Bank? Spotlight on al-Khan al-Ahmar' based on her socio-legal research on the significnce of the al-Khan al-Ahmar school demolition case. The event is part of a series of impact activities, funded by the ESRC-IAA Global Challenges Research Fund, which included a briefing with the Middle East Minister at the FCO.
The planned demolition of the only school in the Bedouin village of al-Khan al-Ahmar, West Bank (oPt) is in the hands of the Israeli Supreme Court. This school is one of many Palestinian public and private structures targeted by demolition orders as part of an Israeli policy to transfer and resettle Bedouins. If the demolition goes ahead, community life will suffer a severe blow, adding to the existing vulnerability and insecurity of the village. But can the law help save the school, preserve al-Khan al-Ahmar and protect these Palestinian Bedouin?
Join Mr Eid Abu Khamis from al-Khan al-Ahmar, Adv. Shlomo Lecker representing the community in this case, and Ms Angela Godfrey from Jahalin Solidarity for an update from the field. Dr Mazen Masri (City University), Dr Mezna Qato (Cambridge University), Mr Dario Rossi D’Ambrosio (UN Fellow), Mr Alon Cohen-Lifshitz (Bimkom), Ms Grazia Careccia (independent legal consultant) and Mr Ardi Imseis (Cambridge University/Palestine Yearbook of International Law) will provide an analysis and discussion of the key themes.
Blog post: Judge Joe Migiozzi visit
On 19-20 October the Centre for Human Rights in Practice hosted Judge Joseph A. Migliozzi of Norfolk Circuit Court, Virginia, who spoke twice on ‘Working in the US’ and ‘Critical Reflections on the Death Penalty’.’ Jennifer Akinola, a student at Warwick Law School, shares her thoughts on the two talks on the law blog.