News & Blog – Page 2 – Susie Alegre

In CHOGM, climate change, Commonwealth, ESC Rights, Human Rights, Island Rights Initiative News

A fairer future for all? CHOGM and human rights in small island states.

With the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in London next week, comes an opportunity to support the important role the Commonwealth can play in the protection and promotion of human rights for the people of the numerous small island states that make up the Commonwealth

April 13, 2018

In Brexit and UK CDOTs, Island Observations, Island Rights Initiative News, UK CDOTs

Brexit and the UK CDOTs – Island Rights Initiative Director, Susie Alegre, talks to Sean Moncreiff

The potential challenges that face UK CDOTs as Brexit negotiations develop are hard to predict. As the British Government juggles priorities and navigates huge issues around trade, security and citizens' rights, the UK CDOTs may find it hard to make their voices heard. Island Rights

February 23, 2018

In Brexit and UK CDOTs, Island Rights Initiative News, UK CDOTs

Island Rights Initiative Director, Susie Alegre, talks to BBC Radio 4 about Brexit in the British Overseas Territories

As negotiations on Brexit continue between the UK and Europe, more and more complex legal issues are thrown up around security, the Good Friday Agreement and data protection among others. But the effect of Brexit on British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies is often forgotten. Island

February 22, 2018

In ESC Rights, Island Observations, Island Rights Initiative News, UK CDOTs, women's rights

#Vote137 – How some British women got the vote in 1881.

Today we mark 100 years since some British women got the vote in the UK. It is a milestone to celebrate but let us not forget that some other British women, in the Isle of Man, got the vote almost four decades earlier. On January 31st,

February 6, 2018

In Brexit and UK CDOTs, ESC Rights, Island Rights Initiative News, UK CDOTs, Uncategorized

St Helena – Parliamentary Evidence on Official Development Assistance (ODA)

February 2, 2018

In Uncategorized

Unlocking the Road to Paradise – A Chance to Promote Human Rights Offshore?

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

November 24, 2017

In climate change, Environment, ESC Rights, Island Rights Initiative News

Closing The Gap Between Human Rights Protection and Loss and Damage: Island Rights Initiative Recommendations For COP 23

Introduction Loss and Damage is an area of climate negotiations that is of particular relevance to island States. Islands are the ‘canary in the coalmine’ - they have contributed the least to greenhouse gases emissions, but will be the first to fall victim to the consequences

November 3, 2017

In Environment, ESC Rights, UK CDOTs

Protecting economic, social and cultural rights in the aftermath of natural disasters

In recent years, the world has seen an increase in natural disasters. In 2017 alone there has been flash flooding in Bangladesh, the mudslide in Sierra Leone, and three hurricanes in the Caribbean Sea and off the coast of the United States ravaging people and

October 13, 2017

In Brexit and UK CDOTs, Island Rights Initiative News

Hurricane Irma has devastated British territories – so why such little aid?

Island Rights Initiative Associate and former Attorney-General of Anguilla, Rupert Jones writes in the Guardian about UK responses and responsibilities for British Overseas Territories devastated by Hurricane Irma: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/sep/12/hurricane-irma-british-territories-aid-anguilla

September 19, 2017

In Island Observations, Kiribati

Ruminations on a Pacific Atoll

July 20, 2017