LSE Human Rights is a transdisciplinary hub for cutting-edge, critical research, teaching and scholarship on human rights. We bring together scholars across multiple disciplines, practitioners from a plurality of sectors, and students from across the world, to interrogate some of the most pressing questions facing human rights in the 21st century. At a time when human rights have come under attack, critique, and scrutiny from across the political and intellectual spectrum, we provide a forum for difficult questions and conversations. Through a variety of activities including a vibrant public lecture and seminar series, cutting-edge graduate programs, outward-facing collaborations and partnerships, and innovative research projects, we are committed to fostering robust and rigorous scholarship that speaks to the worlds around us.
Our collective of scholars research a wide range of topics of direct relevance to the broad theme of human rights. This includes the politics and practice of human rights and humanitarianism; cosmopolitanism, internationalism and solidarity; radical archives; anti-colonialism, anti-racism, and anti-fascism; fascism and the far right; state and political violence and disappearances; feminism, class and the crisis of social reproduction; human rights languages and institutions; and decoloniality and international relations.