Radio ReOrient 14:5: Racial Justice, Human Rights and Surveillance, with Alba Kapoor, hosted by Claudia Radiven and Amina Easat-Daas

About this episode

Alba Kapoor discusses racial justice, surveillance of communities, and the implications of far-right growth in the UK.

In this episode Claudia Radiven and Amina Easat-Daas were joined by Alba Kapoor. Kapoor is the racial justice lead at Amnesty International UK and previously led the policy team at the Runnymede Trust. Alba Kapoor shared the cutting edge work that Amnesty International UK is leading around racial justice, the surveilling of black and brown communities in the UK through existing policy infrastructure such as Prevent, or new and emergent facial recognition technologies. She also discussed forthcoming research from Amnesty examining the silencing of pro-Palestine narratives in academic contexts and the broader questions that this raises around freedoms and rights. Finally, Kapoor linked this to the pressing issues posed by the growth of the far-right in the UK. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/law

People in this episode

Hosts: Claudia Radiven, Amina Easat-Daas

Guest: Alba Kapoor

Topics covered

• racial justice
• human rights
• surveillance
• facial recognition
• far-right
• freedoms
• academic narratives

Keywords

• racial justice
• surveillance
• Amnesty International
• facial recognition
• freedoms
• far-right
• pro-Palestine

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Amnesty International UK, Runnymede Trust

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