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Lacuna is an online Magazine published by the Centre for Human Rights in Practice which challenges indifference to suffering and promotes human rights. Its aim is to fill the gap between the short-term immediacy of daily journalism and long-term academic analysis.

Building on our existing work in this field, we now seek to explore the issue of migration as a core theme of the magazine over the next year.

All forms of writing and visual art will be considered: fiction, non-fiction, poetry, film, animation and photography. You may wish to investigate a particular issue, to provide commentary, reportage or expert analysis. Or you may wish to review a book, a film, a piece of music, art or theatre connected to migration.

Lacuna wants to create a space for deeper thinking on immigration and the issues related to it; identity, exile, security, the global economy, human rights legislation, integration, statelessness, immigration detention, women, language, jobs. These are just some of the topics we want to cover. We will consider past mass movements of people, within countries as well as across continents, and highlight the best historical, economic and political thinking on the subject.

Read the full call at: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/research/centres/chrp/projects/rightingwrongs/migration/

Lacuna is an online Magazine published by the Centre for Human Rights in Practice which challenges indifference to suffering and promotes human rights. Its aim is to fill the gap between the short-term immediacy of daily journalism and long-term academic analysis.

Protest has been a strong theme of the magazine from its first edition.

Lacuna is now revisiting the theme of protest and will be publishing a Special Issue on this theme in February 2016. We are now seeking submissions, with a closing date of December 31st 2015.

All forms of writing and visual art will be considered: fiction, non-fiction, poetry, film, animation and photography. You may wish to investigate a particular instance of protest, to provide commentary, reportage or expert analysis of a protest-related theme. Or you may wish to review a book, a film, a piece of music, art or theatre connected to protest.

We are interested in exploring the diverse spectrum of forms of protest: boycotts; marches; strikes;
sit ins; direct actions; online petitions; songs; stories and many more. What makes protests in all of these forms enticing, legitimate, rewarding, fruitful...? What are the wrongs that provoke our anger and how do we take action in response? We are particularly interested in work that seeks to uncover peoples' motivations forprotesting, what they seek to achieve by protesting, and/or the outcomes of their actions.

Read the full call HERE 

(On behalf of the Death Penalty Attorney Support Programme at Warwick University)

The Death Penalty Attorney Support Programme are currently recruiting for new volunteers. This pro bono project aims to remotely assist US Attorneys with their work on capital cases. If you would like to volunteer, please email your name, course and year to deathpenaltyproject1516@gmail.com 

The Death Penalty Attorney Support Programme are also recruiting for group leaders and a fundraising officer, so if you would like to apply please email us for an application form (deadline for applications Friday, 16th October 2015). If you have any questions or would like any more information, please feel free to email us. We look forward to hearing from you!