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Lacuna Writer in Residence Short-listed for Orwell Prize
It has just been announced that the Centre and Lacuna Magazine's writer in residence, Rebecca Omonira-Oyekanmi has been short-listed for her work by the prestigious George Orwell Prize for Journalism. All the other short-listed journalists are from leading national newspapers (the Guardian, Economist, Independent and Scotland on Sunday). If Rebecca wins, it will be the second Orwell Prize for the University of Warwick’s Centre for Human Rights in Practice in three years. Andrew Williams won the Orwell Book Prize in 2013 for 'A Very British Killing'
Rebecca's shortlisted pieces included:
Centre's Report on the Future of Protest at Warwick Published
In January 2015, the Centre for Human Rights in Practice initiated an independent process to explore the future of protest at Warwick University. This process was primarily instigated as a result of high profile incidents in relation to protest on the university campus in December 2014, and was undertaken with the full support of the Student's Union and university management.
The Centre's Final Report on the Future of Protest on the University of Warwick Campus has now been published and is available here to all Warwick University staff and students. It makes recommendations in relation to dialogue and communication between university management and the student body, the conduct and management of protest on university campus and the role of police on campus.
Lacuna this week: Human rights and the lives of women, Election TV Debates and Deep wounds in Mexico
Lacuna this week continues its focus on women’s rights and gender equality with a diverse range of pieces that explore womens' lives and experience.
Chitra Nagarajan looks at the experiences of women living in Borno State, in the north-east of the country where a year ago today Boko Haram kidnapped more than 200 female students from Chibok. Naana Otoo-Oyortey argues that prevention is the key to tackling FGM in Britain. Angela O'Hagan looks at the feminist movement in post-referendum Scotland.
Elsewhere in Lacuna, James Harrison reflects on the why the British TV Election Debates are so unsatisfactory, and Alison Struthers asks if human rights education can heal Mexico's deep wounds.
You can find it all here at www.lacuna.org.uk