# Human Rights and Welfare

- Institution: Gresham College
- Speaker: Baroness Ruth Deech DBE
- Year: 2009
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Law
- Source: [Gresham College](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/human-rights-and-welfare)
- Licence: [Educational use (Gresham College's terms)](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/terms-and-conditions)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Issues of British human rights and European law affecting, for example, the rights of a prisoner to artificial insemination, and the rights to treatment of single persons and same sex couples. What attention should be paid to traditional family forms in considering the welfare of babies who may be born as a result of treatment? What right does the law have to stop anyone having a baby with the help of technology? Do children need a father and a mother?

## Lectures

1. [Human Rights and Welfare](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/human-rights-and-welfare/a4453df67a9f) (YouTube)