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On the 4th May Madhu Mehra will present a research seminar hosted by the Law School's Centres for Criminal Justice and Human Rights in Practice on The limits of criminal remedies and victim centric approaches to justice, in the context of violence against women. She will draw on her work with crisis centres on violence against women, work on witch hunting in four states, and the recent monitoring of rape trials in special courts in Delhi - that bring out the limitations and problems with criminal remedies - and the troubling absence of state support to victims.

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Madhu Mehra an alumna of the Law School, founding member of Partners for Law in Development in India and leading gender and human rights activist is coming to Warwick on Global Research Priority, International Development/ IAS visiting international fellowship (20th April to 5th May 2016). She will be contributing to the Beyond Development symposium 22-24th April and events around the GRP International Development's annual public lecture on 25th April as well as a number of other events including a workshop hosted by the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender on socio legal methodologies in India and undertaking a lunchtime session for the South Asia/Another India network on her research on witch hunting in contemporary India.

In today's edition Lacuna magazine attempts to bring to the forefront lost voices across three markedly different political struggles.

In “Two flights: the deportation game” Luke de Noronha interviews Chris, a young man deported to Jamaica who spent his formative years in the UK. Across the UK at any one time there are 3,000 foreign nationals detained in secure centres while their applications to stay in the country are processed. Some are held for months and even years while this takes place.

In “Anatomy of a Queer Arab novel” Saleem Haddad narrows in on the experience of queerness, as a political act and as sexuality, against the backdrop of the momentous protests of the Arab spring. In a frank discussion of his debut novel “Guapa”, Saleem explains the complications implicit in any attempt to unravel and re-humanise the queer Arab from within Middle Eastern societies.

In ‘My Experience of Death Row” Warwick student Victoria Potts provides a personal account of her experience of meeting prisoners facing the death penalty in the USA. Her article describes the process of getting to know prisoners and considering the importance of their crimes in relation to the punishment they received.