About
Rights Horizon was created by a group of Masters students studying international human rights law who noticed a global trend within the human rights community – an inability to preemptively address human rights issues.
Instead, too often international human rights law, and international law more generally, takes a reactionary approach when seeking to rectify or address human rights issues. This can be well after they have already impacted upon individuals and their negative repercussions have taken effect.
Rights Horizon was created in response to this, calling upon the expertise of professionals across a spectrum of issues to predict what might be waiting for us around the corner, or to highlight issues not given adequate focus within conventional human rights discourse.
The Team
We are a small team of talented human rights professionals with a wide range of skills and experience.
Patrick Lawrance
Founder, Editor & Content Manager
Patrick has an LLB and will soon be graduating with an LLM in International Human Rights Law from the University of Essex. He is currently working on a research project around potential corporate remedies for climate change while interning at an international organisation dedicated to supporting Eritrean refugees and human rights victims. He is pursuing interests across topics of artificial intelligence, climate change, LGBTQ+ issues and ESC rights.
Wanda MacDonald
Editor & Creative Lead
Alongside human rights, Wanda has a degree in journalism and a professional background in graphic design. She is now pursuing communications and public affairs within the field of international development, with a particular interest in topics of social mobility, identity politics and modern forms of radicalisation.
Isaac Kelly
Editor & Lead Content Generator
Before becoming interested in human rights, Isaac worked a successful start-up dedicated to the monitoring of ethical standards, promotion of diversity and mainstreaming of positive social impacts within tech companies. Isaac is constantly investigating the potential human rights impacts of AI, algorithms, machine-learning and emerging technologies – both good and bad.
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