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8th December 2010

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by Leigh Turner

Ambassador to Austria and UK Permanent Representative to the United Nations and other International Organisations in Vienna

A moment in history

A man and a woman, each bedecked with medals, stand at a window framed by blossoms.  The title reads “My Parents, 1988”.  Beneath is a another photo entitled “The Same Window”.  It shows the woman, now elderly, with a young man, perhaps her son or grandson.  The father is no longer there. I’m a big […]

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5th November 2010 Chevening, UK

Applied human rights? You mean it was never applied before?

I wanted to call this blog "the Clash and human rights" but Malaysian Chevening scholar Shazeera Zawawi wrote it so she gets to decide; The title of this piece of intellectual pursuit is a tribute to a close friend’s response to my recent announcement that I will be furthering my post graduate study in Applied […]

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