Glasgow Human Rights Network

Dr Alan Britton (Scotland/UK contact)

The overall objective of the project is to increase the critical understanding, the accountability and the leading role of young European citizens in relation to sustainable development at a local and global level. The specific objectives are:

• Increase awareness among young Europeans on the issue of food waste, on responsible consumption and the relationship with the global right to food, in order to make them responsible agents of the necessary change;

• Build a European alliance of students against food waste and develop new models of development and sustainable lifestyles;

• Raise awareness among local authorities and their networks on the issue of food waste and the role they can play in the formation of citizens and promoting concrete actions - in the framework of their respective competencies - in the fight against food waste and, generally, in the construction of sustainable human development starting from their territories.

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The distinctively free online book Human Rights, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in the Commonwealth: Struggles for Decriminalisation and Change (London: School of Advanced Study, 2013) was co-edited by Dr. Matthew Waites of Glasgow Human Rights Network, with Dr. Corinne Lennox of Institute of Commonwealth Studies. Since publication Dr. Matthew Waites has been engaged in an ongoing project focused on impact and knowledge exchange, with extensive dissemination especially to LGBTI and human rights NGOs worldwide via social media such as Facebook and Twitter.  Chapters from the book have been downloaded more than 18,500 times. On  18 July 2014 GHRN partnered Equality Network, Kaleidoscope Trust and Pride Glasgow when hosting the LGBTI Human Rights in the Commonwealth conference, from which GHRN has published videos. Dr. Waites also contributed to the LGBTI People of the Commonwealth exhibition in 2014, and the event The Present Situation of LGBTI People in Uganda, and has engaged in a programme of public engagement; forthcoming events include LGBTI Human Rights Activism and Film, for which GHRN will partner the Canadian-based transnational project Envisioning Global LGBT Human Rights.   Publications by Dr Waites have appeared in online periodicals such as The Conversation and Discover Society.