Yesterday evening we attended an event we look forward to all year at BIHR. The Human Rights Research Project presentation evening which is the culmination of our annual Young Human Rights Researcher Project. The project brings together year 9 students from Surbiton High School and Tiffin School for boys. Back in October, the students visited us at Queen Mary University Law School for a human rights education day, where they learned about human rights in the UK. After visiting us at BIHR, the students then work in small groups to and pick a human rights topic to research. This year the topics the students selected covered a broad range of difficult and complex human rights issues: from access to medicine to the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion. The students write up reports in their small groups, which we review, followed by a presentation evening where all the groups present their findings and answer questions from the audience. This year, ...

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