Oxford Amnesty Lectures
Oxford Amnesty Lectures is one of the world's leading lecture series. It is an independent registered charity created to sustain debate about human rights in the academic and wider community. Each year speakers of international reputation are invited to lecture in Oxford on a theme related to human rights. To date OAL has raised over £100,000 for Amnesty International UK Charitable Trust.
Please note, the lectures are not part of Amnesty International and they are not University events.
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2012 Lectures
Protect the Human / Protect the Planet
Amnesty’s watchword, ‘Protect the Human’, is a call to respect existing human life. But in putting humans at the centre of our moral universe, do we imperil future generations; is a call to ‘human’ rights also an imperious claim against our place in the natural order? What of other animals and life forms, the planet itself?
