Clement and Orford discuss topics such as PEN International's charter, coverage of reproductive issues in the media, the right to education, self-censorship and the intersection of the patriarchal repression of women and free speech rights in topical concerns like the Women's March in Washington, Trump's reinstatement of the Mexico City policy on reproductive counciling and the murder of Labour MP Jo Cox.

This event was convened by the Free Speech Debate project. More information can be found at www.freespeechdebate.com.

Over the course of Hilary Term (January to March) and Trinity Term 2017 (April to June), the Department of Politics and International Relations is convening a new seminar series on Ideas and Political Violence.

This series has been recorded and is now available in its entirety, along with an introduction from convenors Elizabeth Frazer and Jonathan Leader Maynard, explaining why they chose this topic, which parts of the series they found particularly interesting, and where they hope it will go in future.

Professor Alex Bellamy (University of Queensland) discusses new challenges for implementing R2P principles in the current age.

Bellamy, who is also Director of the Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, outlines his view that R2P has gained normative acceptance throughout the international community at a much higher level that in previous decades. Significant progress has been achieved such as putting North Korean human rights on the table.

To mark Parliament Week, sixth form students from nine schools across Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire joined a workshop and panel event at the Bodleian Library to ask questions about the relationship between the UK and the European Union.