UK universities are at risk of torture Human rights

In the UK, the Palestinian protest in the war in Gaza, the Palestinian protest, the focus of university concerns about human rights. However, concerns about the relations between Britain’s higher education institutions and human rights abuses are not limited to an area.

A new study from the torture was a new study, including foreign security forces of foreign security forces, including the world’s most repressive regimes, has offered graduate students and anti-terrorist education. These institutions teach state agents without investigating human rights records or consider how the English expert works in silence, inquiry or torture.

The investigation may be softened only for human rights violations of British universities, but some of the abuse can also be a training risk. Some universities are directly common with foreign police forces known for widespread abuse to teach in the country. Others, tortured were greeted individuals to those prepared to serve security experts from a standard vehicle of state control. All this happens with almost control of the risks for human rights.

These are not abstract concerns. Seriously, they immediately raise questions. What happens when the hidden control methods taught in British classrooms later use to hunt opponents? Why do universities do not investigate the backgrounds of applicants from “Anterrorism”?

Freedom from the torture investigation, determined that the universities in England received applicants for a slight security education from the world’s most repressive states. Only one university in the study said they had demonstrated their applicants who believed they were involved in violation of human rights or “intend.”

There is surviving torture in the UK negotiation About the shock that security forces can get security training without the human rights of the security forces. English universities, liberal values ​​and intellectual freedoms are highlighted as long-term beacons, the knowledge they produce more pressure and state violence.

Meanwhile, student activists across the country place themselves as stakeholders in human rights records. The latest Gaza protests show that when students do not adapt to the values ​​of university behavior, they will not hesitate to prosecute.

There is a rich active history of the global student body in the world. Protests against the 1988 rebellion of the anti-apartheid solidarity campaigns, protests against the 1988 rebellion, young people stopped in front of the struggles against repression. Today’s generation – often described as being the most socially conscious and connected to the world – not different. The universities in which human rights performance are a hot topic for young people served should not be surprised.

In the corporate world, now enterprises are now being judged regularly due to human rights records. Terms such as “ethical source” are standard parts of “responsible investment” and “human rights operation”. Universities, who are proud to be forward thinking and social responsibility, should no standard of any standard. It is uncertain that many have no policy in the risks of foreign human rights.

It’s time to change it.

Thanken who want security in the UK, they should not worry about the proposal of the nation’s educational institutions to the security forces. Universities, the most terrible power of the power, or the experienced experience of their own students, should be able to provide peace.

To do this, the university sector should receive the house in order. This begins with an effective effort to adopt a transparent human rights policy in the sector and managing the risks for human rights. The fact that the sector inability to take these necessary steps is leaving the risk of contribution, despite the violation of global human rights.

Universities should ask themselves: Who is sitting in our classrooms? Who benefits from our training? And which results can they floss from what we teach? These are among the many emergency questions, but the sector does not seem to ask.

British universities should take meaningful steps to ensure that global repression can accidentally exacerbate and pride towards the establishment of human rights records. Not only is the activist will not apply to the new generation of students, but it is the right thing.

* Answers of the FFT investigation, including universities can be found here.

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