Where racism is present in critical public services, everyone loses, and a major barrier to human security is created.
Read More »Collateral Damage – New Political Declaration Aims to Tighten Regulations on Explosive Weapon Deployment During Conflicts
In 2022, NGO ‘Action on Armed Violence’ (AOAV) released a summary report on the damage explosive weapons caused to civilian life and infrastructure between 2012-2022. During this period, 238,892 civilians were killed or injured in populated areas.
Read More »Death Penalty Abolition – Viewing Capital Punishment as Violating the Mental Integrity of the Individual
The right to life is embodied in international, domestic and regional documents. It protects the right of an individual to be free from arbitrary deprivation of life. However, the term 'arbitrary' ensures us that the right to life is not absolute and can be derogated from.
Read More »Human Security and COVID-19: On the UK frontline
This pandemic has been quite a danger to human security. Beyond the obvious death toll and long-term health consequences, the pandemic itself threatens the very structure of most people's day-to-day lives.
Read More »Doomsday Cults and Engineered Apocalypse
Pandemics are as old as humanity, but while the increasing likelihood of future natural pandemics is certainly alarming, it is not the worst-case scenario; a natural pathogen could kill tens or hundreds of millions, a designed or adapted one could threaten civilization collapse, ushering in an engineered apocalypse.
Read More »Space and Health Series Event 1: Space, Remote Medicine and Health – 18:00 UK time (GMT+1), 18 May 2021
3 May 2021 Event One: Space, Remote Medicine and Health – 18:00 UK time (GMT+1), 18 May 2021 Tickets available here University College London and the Human Security Centre are teaming up to present an online events series focusing on ...
Read More »International Day of Human Spaceflight marked with launch of Space and Health events series
HSC – UCL Space and Health events series 12 April 2021 Today we mark International Human Spaceflight Day – this year being the 60th Anniversary of cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin embarking on the first crewed spaceflight in Vostok 1 on 12 ...
Read More »Vaccine politics in Eurasia
With over 190 countries signed up, the wait for COVAX vaccinations is likely to be long, and the scheme will only provide doses for up to a fifth of receiving countries’ populations. On the borders of Europe, this process has been fraught with geopolitics, centring in large part around the Russian-developed Sputnik V vaccine, as the complementary and opposing examples of Belarus and Ukraine demonstrate.
Read More »Ensuring Human Security by securing the Healthcare Sector from Cyber Attack
While there are obvious reasons that cause cybersecurity problems in the healthcare industry to be particularly burdensome during a pandemic, organizations should realize the importance of cybersecurity and lead the charge from within.
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