STUDENTS from Essex University are marking International Human Rights Week.

Events organised by the university’s Human Rights Society have been running all week.

They began with students’ annual ‘chalking of the steps’, when the articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights are written on steps across the campus in a number of languages.

This year’s theme is The Future of Human Rights and sessions on female genital mutilation and disability rights will be at the forefront.

Events continue tomorrow between 5pm and 7pm with a panel discussion on the Future of Human Rights with the university’s Prof Sir Nigel Rodley, who also chairs the UN Human Rights Committee, Heather Blake, UK Director of Reporters without Borders, and Paul Dilane, Executive Director of the UK Lesbian and Gay Immigration Group.

On Thursday, a talk on Disability Rights, with professors Sabine Michalowski and Wayne Martin, from Essex, and student Ricky Blair, will be held between 7pm and 9pm.

Friday will see the screening of Even the Rain - a film covering the protest against the privatisation of the Bolivian water supply.

Each event takes place at the Colchester campus, in Wivenhoe.

For more information or to book a place at the events, email pwielt@essex.ac.uk.