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Communicating human rights

May 19, 2022

Todd was invited to talk about Communicating Human Rights by Pembroke College Oxford and used the opportunity to discuss the motivation behind The Rights Track Podcast and what has been achieved by the podcast over 7 series to date.

He joins Professor Alison Brysk to discuss how o new forms of global communication...


The Rights Track: Sound Evidence on Human Rights

Dec 1, 2020

Todd Landman and Christine Garrington

We are delighted to offer our Sixth Series of the Rights Track, launched on international human rights day – 10 December 2020.

Since 2015, The Rights Track team has released 50 episodes across 5 Series with over 20,000 downloads. Our podcast has received a number of plaudits and...


Sound evidence to end slavery

Oct 18, 2017

There are 40.3 million people enslaved around the world today, a shocking figure that, in recent times, has given birth to a renewed global commitment to end modern slavery.

Ending slavery by 2030 is now a key objective for the United Nations, which, by making it one of its Sustainable Development Goals (SDG 8.7), has...


Why America needs a truth commission

Jul 11, 2016

In 1961, President John F. Kennedy established The Presidential Commission on the Status of Women, a formal body that collected evidence and made recommendations on many of the challenges facing women in the modern American economy, polity, and society. No such body has ever been established for the status of African...


Inequality is more than just a problem for developing countries

Mar 22, 2016

To mark a new partnership with the OpenGlobalRights blog, our host Todd Landman was invited to write a piece on how advanced economies are also experiencing persistent and increasing inequality, and its alarming effect on human rights.

The publication of Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century heralded a new age...