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Our decision to pursue the future of human rights, populism and politics came about because we were intrigued by current governments and political movements globally that threaten our human rights. To understand how this could have detrimental effects on our future we decided to split this project into the past, present and future. This knowledge would give us the background to formulate ideas about what the future might hold. We realised that in the past, what looked like seemingly harmless pieces of legislation over time compounded with mass misinformation and propaganda allowed a government to discriminate against a particularly vulnerable group without much opposition, the end state often leading to human rights violations. These events have happened throughout the world and are occurring today on both sides of the political spectrum. Our rapidly evolving technology is not helping us to stay away from such disasters, in fact through surveillance, AI and social media, it is significantly easier to discriminate groups and polarise populations. We encourage every single one of you to pay attention to what is happening in our country and around the world so that we don’t slowly give our human rights away.