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Virginia Mantouvalou

Virginia Mantouvalou

Professor of Human Rights and Labour Law at UCL Faculty of Laws; Co-Director of the UCL Institute for Human Rights

Jul 1, 2026

6:09
... or, you know, rights that might not really exist as excuses to stay in the country to, to gain, to get... make people worried about Migrant workers, labour law in particular, to e- encourage us to abolish it all
6:23
The problem is that both politicians at times unfortunately and the tabloid, uh, press, uh, unfortunately create all this panic that people are abusing the, uh, or, you know, the system.
6:34
That people who don't deserve it abuse the, uh, human rights laws that we have in order to take advantage of our system, and that is just not true.
6:42
Of course, sometimes people can use human rights against the, human rights law against what the majorities impose on them.
6:50
But, uh, human rights are also something...
6:53
We, you know, we all sh- have human rights.
6:55
Everyone hu- has human rights.

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13:38
So why were they so scary?

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