Network for Global Ethics and Human Rights

at the University of the West of England

Network co-ordinators

UWE, Bristol

Christien van den Anker

Christien co-ordinates the network. She is a political theorist working on global justice. Christien edits the Journal of Global Ethics and is a Board member of Globalizations. She currently leads a European research project on Trafficking for forced labour in other industries than the sex industries. Her publications on Global Ethics and Human Rights include ‘Globalising liberalism or multiculturalism? The Durban agenda and the role of local human rights education in implementing global norms’ Globalization, Societies and Education 5(5)November2007: 287-302 and ‘Cosmopolitanism, Women’s rights and Trafficking’ in A. Guichon and R. Shah (eds) ‘Women’s rights in Europe’ Special Issue of Journal of Global Ethics 3(1) December 2006. Her books include (with J. Doomernik (eds.))Trafficking and women’s rights Palgrave, 2006 and (with Rhona Smith (eds.)) The Essentials of Human rights Hodder Arnold, 2005