Why we need an Institute for Human Rights - Audio

The UCL Institute for Human Rights was established in October 2009. It
brings together expertise in Laws, Political Science, Economics,
Epidemiology and Public Health with student activists, non-governmental
organisations and other parties to undertake rounded research that can
influence human rights policy around the world.

In the wake of David Cameron's renewed commitment to abolish the Human
Rights Act in the UK should the Conservatives come to power, Dr Saladin
Meckled-Garcia, co-founder of the UCL Institute for Human Rights, discusses
why the time is ripe for this kind of cross-disciplinary work - and the
implications of the Leader of the Opposition's stance.