# Event Details - **Event Name**: Annual Human Rights Lecture 2025 : Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC - **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 11 Dec, 2025 at 04:30 pm – Thu, 11 Dec, 2025 at 07:00 pm - **Event Description**: Each year we invite leading experts from around the world to give our Human Rights Annual Lecture.About this EventPlease join us on Thursday 11 December from 4.30pm for the Ninth Annual Lecture of the Human Rights Centre, taking place at our Colchester Campus.This year’s lecture will be delivered by Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC, an internationally renowned human rights lawyer. It will be introduced by Professor Carla Ferstman, Director of the Essex Human Rights Centre.Lecture Topic: When the Journalist Becomes the Story: Trends and Developments in the Targeting of JournalistsBiographiesCaoilfhionn Gallagher KC - International Human Rights LawyerCaoilfhionn Gallagher KC is a barrister and international human rights lawyer. Over the past 25 years, she has acted in many leading human rights cases in the UK, Europe and internationally, including cases concerning the rights of victims of terrorism and redress for survivors of child sexual abuse. Caoilfhionn is an expert in journalists’ safety and arbitrary detention. She has secured the freedom of over 80 imprisoned journalists, business people, lawyers, musicians, cartoonists and activists wrongly imprisoned worldwide (including in Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, China, UAE, Russia and Equatorial Guinea), and she has overturned the death penalty for a number of her clients sentenced to death for peaceful protest, rapping and journalism. Her caseload includes leading the international legal teams for Jimmy Lai, the publisher and pro-democracy campaigner unjustly imprisoned in Hong Kong; the bereaved family of Daphne Caruana Galizia, the assassinated Maltese journalist; hundreds of BBC News Persian and Iran International journalists targeted extra-territorially by Iran; and Maria Ressa, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning journalist from the Philippines. She was appointed an expert witness on State obligations in relation to violence against women journalists before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in Jineth Bedoya Lima v. Colombia.Alongside her practice as a barrister, Caoilfhionn is Ireland’s Special Rapporteur on Child Protection, a Commissioner of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission, a Board Member of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and an Adjunct Full Professor at University College Dublin. In 2023, she was awarded the President of Ireland’s Distinguished Service Award in recognition of her work.Professor Carla Ferstman, Director of the Essex Human Rights Centre and Professor, Essex Law SchoolProfessor Ferstman researches, writes, and consults in the areas of human rights, international criminal law and public international law. Before joining academia in 2018, she worked for many years as a human rights practitioner, with civil society organisations, intergovernmental organisations and in private practice. She is the former Director of REDRESS (2004 – 2018) and previously Legal Director (2001 – 2004). She also previously worked with the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Rwanda (1995 – 1997), Amnesty International (1998 – 1999) and was Executive Legal Advisor of the Commission for Real Property Claims of Refugees and Displaced Persons in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1999 – 2001). She also served as a judge on the Aban Tribunal (the International People’s Tribunal on Iran’s Atrocities of November 2019).Key timings4.15pm - Guests arrive4.30pm - Prompt start - Lecture, including a Q&A5.30pm - ReceptionJoin usIn person - everyone is welcome (students, staff, members of the public); however, please register via Eventbrite.Agenda?: 04:30 PM - 06:00 PMLecture?: 06:00 PM - 07:00 PMDrinks reception - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/colchester/annual-human-rights-lecture-2025-caoilfhionn-gallagher-kc/100001974708293664 - **Event Categories**: music, entertainment, art - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: GBP ## Event venue details - **city**: Colchester - **state**: EN - **country**: United Kingdom - **location**: University of Essex Colchester Campus - **lat**: 51.8876024 - **long**: 0.8875188 - **full address**: University of Essex Colchester Campus, STEM3.1, Colchester, United Kingdom ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Annual Human Rights Lecture 2025 : Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events2/banners/acaf74dbf5c50b5b831ad057ddf81afc2cedac4fd5c0ed448b50ee535b4fd15b-rimg-w600-h300-dc5b365d-gmir.jpg?v=1763557264 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Annual Human Rights Lecture 2025 : Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC being held? - **A:** Annual Human Rights Lecture 2025 : Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC takes place on Thu, 11 Dec, 2025 at 04:30 pm to Thu, 11 Dec, 2025 at 07:00 pm at University of Essex Colchester Campus, STEM3.1, Colchester, United Kingdom. - **Q**: Who is organizing Annual Human Rights Lecture 2025 : Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC? - **A:** Annual Human Rights Lecture 2025 : Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC is organized by Law & Human Rights Centre Events Team. - **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me? - **A:** Annual Human Rights Lecture 2025 : Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC is ideal for music lovers, fans of all genres, and anyone who wants to celebrate the power of music - from intimate gigs and live sessions to festivals and cultural performances. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Colchester, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. 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