Island Rights Initiative's report Mapping the UK's responsibilities for human rights in UK Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies has been updated to include recent developments since December 2019 - read the updated report here..
Thanks to a grant from the Legal Education Foundation the Island Rights Initiative has been able to map the UK’s constitutional relationships with its Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories from a human rights perspective. This report identifies the key legal and constitutional responsibilities the UK has
Our Director, Susie Alegre, has given evidence to the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee Inquiry into the Future of UK Overseas Territories. Her written evidence focused on key areas that need urgent review to strengthen the protection of human rights and governance in the UK’s
The Island Rights Initiative is delighted to have been awarded a grant by the Legal Education Foundation to map the UK's constitutional relationships with its Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories from a human rights perspective. The UK has Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories (CDOTs) around the world.
Angelique Pouponneau, associate of the Island Rights Initiative, represented the Alliance of Small Island States at the stakeholder meeting of the Taskforce on Displacement of the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage (WIM) from the 14th to the 15th May 2018. In 2015, the
Islands in International Finance In the second half of the twentieth century, many small island jurisdictions established themselves as international financial centres (IFCs). For some, this was a choice that allowed their communities to survive and thrive after decades, or even centuries of large scale emigration