Human Rights: The Case for the Defence, with Shami Chakrabarti
Thu 29 May
|The Conduit
Shami Chakrabarti, former director of Liberty and member of the House of Lords, on why human rights matter more than ever.
Time & Location
29 May 2025, 18:15 – 19:30 BST
The Conduit, 6 Langley St, London WC2H 9JA, UK
About the event
What do human rights mean in today’s world?
Rights like free speech, privacy, fair trials and protection from discrimination are under increasing pressure from growing inequality, rapid technological change, and political extremism.
Join Shami Chakrabarti, one of Britain’s leading voices on human rights, in conversation with Paul van Zyl, co-founder of The Conduit, as they discuss why these rights matter so much and what it will take to protect them in a rapidly changing world.
Shami Chakrabarti is a leading British human rights lawyer and campaigner who has written and broadcast widely and held a number of public roles in recent decades. A legislator in the House of Lords, she is the author of On Liberty and Of Women. Director of Liberty (the National Council for Civil Liberties) from 2003 to 2016, she was Shadow Attorney General for England and Wales from 2016 to 2020.
Paul van Zyl is the co-founder and CEO of The Conduit.…
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