In partnership with Amnesty International, Medact, Rethinking Security and Museum of Transology
Taking an intersectional approach, Joanna Frew (Re-thinking Security) Reem Abu-Hayyeh (Amnesty International), Dr Mashal Iftikhar (Medact) and E-J Scott (Museum of Transology) will discuss how safeguarding - and security more broadly - can be weaponised through policy across the arts, education and health sectors.
Medact’s mission is to support health professionals from all disciplines to work together towards a world in which everyone can truly achieve and exercise their human right to health. They do this through research and evidence-based campaigning for solutions to the social, political and economic conditions which damage health, deepen health inequalities and threaten peace and security.
Amnesty International is an international non-governmental organisation focused on human rights, with its headquarters in the United Kingdom. As a global movement of over ten million people, Amnesty International is the world's largest grassroots human rights organisation. Their report, This Is The Thought Police: The Prevent duty and its chilling effect on human rights, was published in 2023.
Rethinking Security is a network devoted to shifting “public and political narratives in the UK about what security is and how it is best created, challenging existing approaches and fostering confidence in alternatives”.
Museum of Transology The Museum of Transology holds the UK’s most significant collection of objects representing trans, non-binary and intersex people’s lives. It’s founder E-J Scott has worked on many educational initiatives including museum Guidance for Trans Inclusion developed with the University of Leicester.
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