Shami Chakrabarti, Human Rights

Join leading British human rights lawyer and campaigner, Shami Chakrabarti for a powerful discussion on Human Rights: The Case for the Defence. This urgent, powerful book demonstrates why human rights matter and why we need to secure further rights to deal with challenges of the present and future.

This event will include an audience Q&A and after the event there will be an opportunity to get your book signed by the author.

Thursday 5th June, 7.00pm

Venue: Anglia Ruskin University, Bishop Hall Lane, Chelmsford, CM1 1SQ

Tickets: £12 / £10 oncessions (Students, Under 27s and Unwaged)

Box Office: essexbookfestival.org.uk or Mercury Theatre 01206 573948

Human Rights: The Case for the Defence by Shami Chakrabarti

Our human rights are endangered. After the devastation of World War Two the international community united to enshrine fundamental rights to refuge, health, education and living standards. They protected privacy, fair trials and free speech and outlawed torture, slavery and discrimination. Their goal was greater global justice, equality and peace. That settlement is now under attack from opponents on both left and right and populist and authoritarian movements worldwide. Simultaneously, we are threatened by war, inequality, new tech and climate catastrophe, crises human rights can help us address.

In this urgent, powerful book, Shami Chakrabarti, demonstrates why human rights matter and why we need to secure further rights to deal with challenges of the present and future. Outlining the historic national and international struggles for human rights, from ancient Babylon to the present day, Chakrabarti is an indispensable guide to the law and logic underpinning human dignity and universal freedoms. This book equips supporters in the battle of ideas and will encourage doubters to think again.

To believe in human rights is to believe in human beings. If they – and we – are to survive, these rights must be owned and understood by everyone.

Order a copy of Human Rights by Shami Chakrabarti at bookshop.org

About Shami Chakrabarti

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.