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On Human Rights
The Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
Podcast by The Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
Human Rights Unscripted is a podcast from the American University Washington College of Law that takes a deep dive into the human rights field through candid interviews with professionals, professors, and students.
Human Rights Education Now! is a podcast that aims to (1) inform a broader audience in the U.S. and internationally about human rights education (HRE) stories, practices, related issues and theories, (2) expand awareness and knowledge about HRE USA and its programs, and (3) engage partner individuals, groups and organizations in changing the conversation about rights in the U.S. to one employing a human rights education lens.
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RightsUp: The Oxford Human Rights Hub Podcast


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Oxford Human Rights Hub
RightsUp explores the big human rights issues of the day through interviews with experts, academics, practicing lawyers, activists and policy makers who are at the forefront of tackling the world's most difficult human rights questions. RightsUp is brought to you by the Oxford Human Rights Hub, based in the Law Faculty at the University of Oxford. Music for this podcast is by Rosemary Allmann. (This podcast is distributed under a CC by NC-SA 4.0 license.)
Join Rachelle for a weekly news podcast with occasional deep dives and guest conversations covering global issues related to human rights, corporate responsibility, social and community impact, and due diligence. Rachelle has worked at the intersection of human rights and business for nearly three decades and brings her experience and insight to you in this podcast.
Human rights are basic rights and freedoms that belong to every one of us, no matter who we are or where we live. These rights are universal, indivisible, and interdependent. Because they apply to everyone, everywhere, and at all times.Our aim in Human Rights Sentinel is to highlight the issues that are not covered by the media or have been neglected by the international committee due to political, national, or international interests.
Human Rights & Justice with host Attorney Nkechi Taifa, features kick-ass commentary and stimulating guests discussing a plethora of domestic and global themes encompassing political, economic and social rights.
Welcome to The Human Rights Podcast from the Irish Centre for Human Rights at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Here at the Centre, we are fortunate to be visited each year by an array of world-leading practitioners, researchers and policy-makers in the field of human rights and its associated disciplines. We also have a vibrant community at the ICHR and more broadly in NUI Galway of academic staff, postdoctoral and doctoral scholars, and postgraduate and undergraduate students foc ...
Department of State Podcasts
Exploring inequality, abuse and oppression around the world, we hear from those directly involved in an issue, examine the structural context to find why rights abuse exists, and look for possible solutions. You can also read articles related to some of these episodes at the web site of The Upstream Journal! www.upstreamjournal.org. We are pleased to see that Human Rights Magazine is a top-rated human rights podcast at Feedspot. (https://blog.feedspot.com/human_rights_podcasts/)
Enrich your understanding of human rights ideas and practices.
Human rights- Cyberbullying
About human rights Issues happening in Russia and how to be an advocate towards the Human rights subject.
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ADVOCATE by ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights


APHR's new podcast channel discusses the most important human rights developments across Southeast Asia.
The US Human Rights Network's podcast keeps you informed and up to date on domestic human rights issues.
A series of podcasts investigating the latest human rights developments and issues in the UK and internationally.
A podcast about human rights Cover art photo provided by Annie Spratt on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/@anniespratt
What makes words on paper a reality? Elenor Roosevelt said, "Human Rights begins in small places close to Home" This is a series of podcasts that explores the spectrum of human rights from business and police to individual rights with Human Rights Defenders from around the world.
Human Rights First is an independent advocacy and action organization that challenges America to live up to its ideals.
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Declarations: The Human Rights Podcast


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Declarations: The Human Rights Podcast
Declarations: The Human Rights Podcast
A show about human rights coming to you every week from the Cambridge Centre of Governance and Human Rights. Tune in each week as our panel explores the impact of new technologies on human rights, joined by fascinating guests from the University of Cambridge and around the world. (All rights reserved, so to speak. Our theme song, "Relative Dimensions", was created by the artificial intelligence at JukeDeck.)
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Human Rights and the Digital by DHRLab


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Digital Human Rights Lab
Human Rights and the Digital Podcast presents voices and perspectives of Human Rights defenders in Uganda, focusing on how technology is being used to the realization of Human Rights. This podcast is produced by the Digital Human Rights Lab.
What is the human rights issue? Where is this human right issue occurring? Which human right article in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights does it violate? How does it violate this right? Is anything already being done to help correct this human rights issue? What? Why should your peers care about this human rights issue? What can you/your peers do to about this?
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Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission | Podcast


Welcome to the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission Podcast. Our vision is of an inclusive Ireland where human rights and equality are respected, protected and fulfilled for everyone, everywhere.
Founded in March 1989, HRIC is dedicated to promoting international human rights and advancing the institutional protection of these rights in China.
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights by United Nations


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Universal Declaration of Human Rights by United Nations
Loyal Books
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was ratified in 1948 by the United Nations General Assembly. It defines the fundamental rights of individuals, and exhorts all governments to protect these rights. The UN has translated the document into over three hundred languages and dialects. This audiobook includes readings in 21 languages.
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Intersections: Where Human Rights and Democracy Meet


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Intersections: Where Human Rights and Democracy Meet
CSIS | Center for Strategic and International Studies
The battle for democracy will be fought one human rights issue at a time. In this biweekly podcast from the CSIS Human Rights Initiative, host Marti Flacks tackles current events with activists and policymakers at the center of global efforts to promote human rights and build stronger, more sustainable democracies. Share your feedback at humanrights@csis.org.
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Trey Schlink and Conor Keohan Human Rights


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Human Rights
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Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission Podcast


Podcasts produced by the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission. The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission was established under statute on 1 November 2014 to protect and promote human rights and equality in Ireland, to promote a culture of respect for human rights, equality and intercultural understanding, to promote understanding and awareness of the importance of human rights and equality, and to work towards the elimination of human rights abuses and discrimination.
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Future Security Trends: Implications for Human Rights


The International Code of Conduct for Private Security Service Providers' Association (ICoCA) is a multistakeholder initiative whose mission is to raise private industry security standards and promote the responsible provision of private security. During these podcasts ICoCA invites different perspectives on what the future holds for responsible private security that respects human rights and international humanitarian law. Music by www.bensound.com
Hosted by Lantos Foundation President, Dr. Katrina Lantos Swett, The Keeper features in depth conversations about the most pressing matters of human rights and justice around the world and welcomes some of the most important human rights figures of our time as guests.The Keeper takes its name from the personal conviction of the Lantos Foundation's namesake Congressman Tom Lantos, fully lived out in his own life, that we have a moral and ethical obligation to be our brother and sister’s keepe ...
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Core rights and the protection of socio-economic interests by the European Court of Human Rights (HD 1280)


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Core rights and the protection of socio-economic interests by the European Court of Human Rights (HD 1280)
Dr. Ingrid Leijten
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TIC TALKS - All About Sport, Inclusion and Human Rights


TIC TALKS is all about sport, inclusion and human rights. TIC (The Inclusion Club) interviews leading world practitioners in the field of sport and recreation, with a focus on the inclusion of people with disability in sport and active recreation programs. Learn about new programs, new ways of thinking and new approaches to inclusion issues. We also look at the similarities of inclusion across targeted populations, including Indigenous people, people from different cultural backgrounds and w ...
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University of Chicago Human Rights Program Distinguished Lecturer Series


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University of Chicago Human Rights Program Distinguished Lecturer Series
The University of Chicago Human Rights Program
At the University of Chicago, research and teaching in human rights integrate exploration of the core questions of human dignity with critical examination of the institutions designed to promote and protect human rights in the contemporary world. The University of Chicago Human Rights Program is an initiative unique among its peers for the interdisciplinary focus its faculty and students bring to bear on these essential matters. The Distinguished Lecturer series creates space for dialogue be ...
Human Rights in Transit is a collaborative project that engages the ongoing and emerging tensions that are at the center of contemporary global existence. As people struggle for their lives as migrants, refugees, citizens, and indeed as humans, there is also a radical de-centering and even crisis of the human underway. From technology, bioscience, and environmental transformations, to deconolonial critiques of humanism, the category of the human and the future of the humanities, is deeply un ...
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Human Rights and the Post-2015 Development Agenda: Challenges and prospects


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Human Rights and the Post-2015 Development Agenda: Challenges and prospects
Oxford University
This two-day conference provided a forum for academics, practitioners and government representatives to evaluate the current debate and future shape of the post-2015 agenda from a human rights perspective. It was focused on both theoretical and practical aspects of integrating human rights in the post-2105 agenda, with a particular focus on poverty, environment and peace and security.
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Bioneers: Democracy, Human Rights and the Rights of Nature


This rousing collection of videos portray the vibrant global movement of movements devoted to environmental health, justice, dignity, diversity, and democracy – to human rights and the rights of nature. It opposes the concentration of wealth and distribution of poverty. It augurs an ecologically literate, just civilization where taking care of nature means taking care of people – and taking care of people means taking care of nature. Since 1990, Bioneers has acted as a fertile hub of social ...
What are the differences between individual and minority rights? How did the League of Nations and United Nations attempt to address the topic of human rights? Right now, we define human rights as the rights to which all people are inherently entitled to as a result of being a human being. From the creation of the League of Nations in 1920 it’s been accepted that everyone should be protected under a set of natural or legal laws, but how has the definition of these rights changed since they w ...
The Palimpsest of Human Rights is an experimental spoken word production which combines verse interpretations of the prose writings of Martin Luther King, Mohandas Gandhi, and Henry Thoreau. The influence of new, temporally-bound ideas on succeeding generations is revealed in a continuous discourse. The physical idea of a palimpsest (writing over the top of an existing text in a manuscript) is here extended to an aural experience. When the texts are read aloud, one over the top of another, t ...
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New Books in Human Rights


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Antonius C. G. M. Robben and Alex Hinton, "Perpetrators: Encountering Humanity's Dark Side" (Stanford UP, 2023)
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Perpetrators of mass violence are commonly regarded as evil. Their violent nature is believed to make them commit heinous crimes as members of state agencies, insurgencies, terrorist organizations, or racist and supremacist groups. Upon close examination, however, perpetrators are contradictory human beings who often lead unsettlingly ordinary and …
In the second half of his conversation with Bill Fernekes, David Shiman shares insights about current and future challenges facing HRE in the USA. In particular, he links the success of HRE to maintaining an open and respectful classroom climate where the exchange of ideas and the study of controversial issues is a central focus of instruction. Shi…
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RightsUp: The Oxford Human Rights Hub Podcast


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Cathryn Costello on the UK Immigration Bill
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Vox pops on key human rights issues with human rights experts. Transcript available on the Oxford Human Rights Hub website (ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/).
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Business and Human Rights with Rachelle


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Interview with Leslie Esparza, Senior Director Responsible Sourcing, Microsoft
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An overview of recent news related to business and human rights is followed by an interview with Leslie Esparza, Senior Director Responsible Sourcing at Microsoft. Join me as Leslie discusses her 25 years in the sector, how recent legislation has changed the stakes for companies, what challenges she thinks have been overlooked by companies, and wha…
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Human Rights Unscripted

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International Human Rights: Law and Labor
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Join us for a conversation with Professor of Law David Snyder on the intersection of international contracts, commercial law, and human rights. In addition to being a professor of law at the Washington College of Law and the director of the Business Law Program, Professor Snyder is an elected member of the American Law Institute, a member of the In…
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On Human Rights


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Richard Bennett - Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan.
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Richard Bennett - Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan. by The Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian LawAutor: The Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
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The Human Rights Podcast


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A Black Hole in the Mediterranean? Maritime Migration, Human Rights and State Responsibility
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In this episode, Giulia Dedej speaks with Dr. Aphrodite Papachristodolou (Postdoctoral Researcher at the ICHR) on her important research on maritime migration and human rights. To keep up to date with developments from the Central Mediterranean, you can follow:Sea-Watch InternationalSOS MediterraneeOpen ArmsAlarm PhoneMSF SeaInfoMigrantsLighthouse …
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New Books in Human Rights


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Jacob A. C. Remes and Andy Horowitz, "Critical Disaster Studies" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
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This book announces the new, interdisciplinary field of critical disaster studies. Unlike most existing approaches to disaster, critical disaster studies begins with the idea that disasters are not objective facts, but rather are interpretive fictions--and they shape the way people see the world. By questioning the concept of disaster itself, criti…
David Shiman discusses the origins of his interest in human rights and social justice, and the impetus his election to the Amnesty International USA Board of Directors gave to work in human rights education (HRE). He also describes his work as a human rights educator in the former communist states of Eastern Europe and how HRE has developed over ti…
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New Books in Human Rights


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Uddipana Goswami, "Gendering Peace in Violent Peripheries: Marginality, Masculinity, and Feminist Agency" (Routledge, 2022)
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Gendering Peace in Violent Peripheries: Marginality, Masculinity, and Feminist Agency (Routledge, 2022) forward Assam (and Northeast India) as a specific location for studying operations of gendered power in multi-ethnic, conflict-habituated geopolitical peripheries globally. In the shifting and relational margins of such peripheral societies, powe…
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Anjan Sundaram, "Breakup: A Marriage in Wartime" (Catapult, 2023)
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Anjan Sundaram is an award-winning journalist who has written three books on African people and places: Democratic Republic of Congo in Stringer, Rwanda in Bad News and now Central African Republic in Breakup. Each of Anjan’s books are glorious for their storytelling, told in great detail through years professional engagement with violence, war and…
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Julia Kowalski, "Counseling Women: Kinship Against Violence in India" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
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Women’s rights activists around the world have commonly understood gendered violence as the product of so-called traditional family structures, from which women must be liberated. Counseling Women: Kinship Against Violence in India (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022) contends that this perspective overlooks the social and cultural contexts in which women …
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Melanie 0'Brien, "From Discrimination to Death: Genocide Process Through a Human Rights Lens" (Routledge, 2022)
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Melanie 0'Brien's book From Discrimination to Death: Genocide Process Through a Human Rights Lens (Routledge, 2022) studies the process of genocide through the human rights violations that occur during genocide. Using individual testimonies and in-depth field research from the Armenian Genocide, Holocaust and Cambodian Genocide, this book demonstra…
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Sherine Tadros, "Taking Sides: A Memoir about Love, War, and Changing the World" (Scribe, 2023)
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Taking Sides: A Memoir about Love, War, and Changing the World (Scribe, 2023) is a personal memoir by Sherine Tadros, the United Nations Representative and Deputy Director of Advocacy for Amnesty International. An award-winning broadcast journalist and war correspondent for Sky News and Al Jazeera English, where she reported on the Gaza War, the Ar…
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Miriam Bak Mckenna, "Reckoning with Empire: Self-Determination in International Law" (Brill, 2022)
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Miriam Bak McKenna is an Associate Professor at the Department of Social Sciences and Business at Roskilde University (Denmark). Her first monograph, Reckoning with Empire: Self-Determination in International Law (Brill, 2023), adopts a new approach to self-determination’s international legal history, tracing the ways in which various actors have s…
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The Role of Global South Women in Shaping Global Governance
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This week on International Horizons, Ellen Chesler interviews Rebecca Adami and Fatima Sator, editor and co-author of Women and the UN: A New History of Women's International Human Rights (Routledge, 2022) that debunks the myth that the UN Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights were Western male-dominated inventions. Moreover, the au…
An overview of recent news related to business and human rights is followed by a deep dive into gender equality in the supply chain, in honor of International Women's Day. Join Rachelle to discuss why gender equality matters for business and how companies can use gender-disaggregated data to improve outcomes for female workers, their families, and …
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Toby Green and Thomas Fazi, "The Covid Consensus: The Global Assault on Democracy and the Poor—A Critique from the Left" (Hurst, 2023)
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During the first months of the pandemic, governments worldwide agreed that ‘following the science’ with hard lockdowns and vaccine mandates was the best way to preserve life. But evidence is mounting that ‘the science’ was all politics and time reveals the horrific human and economic cost of these policies. The Covid Consensus: The Global Assault o…
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Business and Human Rights with Rachelle


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Deep Dive: Child Labor in the United States
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An overview of recent news related to business and human rights is followed by a deep dive into the headlines around child labor in the United States. Join Rachelle to explore this phenomenon, the international standards defining child labor, what the U.S. hot goods provision means for enforcement, and what best practice looks like for child labor …
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Martin K. Dimitrov, "Dictatorship and Information: Authoritarian Regime Resilience in Communist Europe and China" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Fear pervades dictatorial regimes. Citizens fear leaders, the regime's agents fear superiors, and leaders fear the masses. The ubiquity of fear in such regimes gives rise to the "dictator's dilemma," where autocrats do not know the level of opposition they face and cannot effectively neutralize domestic threats to their rule. The dilemma has led sc…
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Ulrike Krause, "Difficult Life in a Refugee Camp: Gender, Violence, and Coping in Uganda" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Although refugee camps are established to accommodate, protect, and assist those fleeing from violent conflict and persecution, life often remains difficult there. Building on empirical research with refugees in a Ugandan camp, Ulrike Krause offers nuanced insights into violence, humanitarian protection, gender relations, and coping of refugees who…
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Human Rights Unscripted

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Polina Sidelnikova: Russia's Homefront - Human Rights
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Join us for a conversation with Humphrey Fellow and Russian attorney Polina Sidelnikova for an in-depth discussion of human rights in Russia in the wake of the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Ukraine.
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Who Gets Believed? When the Truth Isn't Enough
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Why are people judged on whether or not they are compelling? Why isn’t telling the truth enough? What are people really listening for when others share their truths? And how does this harm asylum seekers? Dina Nayeri joins us to share: Why our perceptions of other people’s experiences impact them and us. What makes a “credible” story, and what does…
Barrister Hamid Bashani is a Kashmiri from the Pakistan-controlled Poonch district. He is a former student activist and presently the Secretary-General of Advocates International, Canada. He is a columnist and political analyst at Friday Night and Third opinion Shows on Canadian South Asian TV Channels.…
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Jeffrey S. Bachman, "The Politics of Genocide: From the Genocide Convention to the Responsibility to Protect" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
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Why have the founding members of the United Nations (the P5) evaded accountability for their crimes of genocide? Jeff Bachman, of the American University School of International Service, provides an answer in his book, The Politics of Genocide: From the Genocide Convention to the Responsibility to Protect (Rutgers UP, 2022). It starts with an analy…
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David H. Price, "The American Surveillance State: How the US Spies on Dissent" (Pluto Press, 2022)
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When the possibility of wiretapping first became known to Americans they were outraged. Now, in our post-9/11 world, it's accepted that corporations are vested with human rights, and government agencies and corporations use computers to monitor our private lives. In The American Surveillance State: How the US Spies on Dissent (Pluto Press, 2022), D…
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Frederick Schauer, "The Proof: Uses of Evidence in Law, Politics, and Everything Else" (Harvard UP, 2022)
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In a world awash in “fake news,” where public figures make unfounded assertions as a matter of course, a preeminent legal theorist ranges across the courtroom, the scientific laboratory, and the insights of philosophers to explore the nature of evidence and show how it is credibly established. In the age of fake news, trust and truth are hard to co…
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Stephanie Wolfe and Matthew Kane, "In the Shadow of Genocide: Justice and Memory Within Rwanda" (Routledge, 2023)
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Stephanie Wolfe and Matthew Kane's In the Shadow of Genocide: Justice and Memory Within Rwanda (Routledge, 2023) brings together scholars and practitioners for a unique inter-disciplinary exploration of justice and memory within Rwanda. It explores the various strategies the state, civil society, and individuals have employed to come to terms with …
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Elora Halim Chowdhury, "Ethical Encounters: Transnational Feminism, Human Rights, and War Cinema in Bangladesh" (Temple UP, 2022)
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An exploration of the intersection of feminism, human rights, and memory, Ethical Encounters: Transnational Feminism, Human Rights, and War Cinema in Bangladesh (Temple University Press, 2022) examines contemporary, woman-centered Muktijuddho cinema--features and documentaries that focus on the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971. Elora Chowdhury sho…
In this episode, Dr Gillian Kane interviews Julia Collins, Kirsten Larson, and Anna Godau, LLM students who are working on the Human Rights Podcast this year. They discuss their studies, what they are enjoying about life at the ICHR, and what we can expect to hear in upcoming episodes of the podcast.Some resources and links mentioned in this episod…
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Jonathan Herring, "The Right to Be Protected from Committing Suicide" (Hart Publishing, 2022)
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Professor Jonathan Herring makes an argument that suicidal people have a right to be protected from committing suicide, and that the state should be under a duty to take reasonable steps to protect them from killing themselves. In The Right to Be Protected from Committing Suicide (Hart, 2022) Herring takes a deep dive into ideas surrounding autonom…
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Zoe Adams, "The Legal Concept of Work" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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"Why do we think about some practices as work, and not others? Why do we classify certain capacities as economically valuable skills, and others as innate characteristics? What, moreover, is the role of law in shaping our answers to these questions?" These are just some of the queries explored by Dr. Zoe Adams's analysis of the legal construction, …
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Laurent Richard and Sandrine Rigaud, "Pegasus: How a Spy in Your Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy, Dignity, and Democracy" (Henry Holt, 2023)
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Pegasus: How a Spy in Your Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy, Dignity, and Democracy (Henry Holt, 2023) is the inside story of a worldwide investigation, sparked by the leak which revealed that cyber-intrusion and cyber-surveillance are happening with exponentially increasing frequency, across the globe. Pegasus, it turns out, is less a law enfor…
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Lisa Hajjar, "The War in Court: Inside the Long Fight Against Torture" (U California Press, 2022)
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The War in Court: Inside the Long Fight against Torture (University of California Press, 2022) by Dr. Lisa Hajjar examines how hundreds of lawyers mobilized to challenge the illegal treatment of prisoners captured in the war on terror and helped force an end to the US government's most odious policies. Told as a suspenseful, high-stakes story, The …
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Kevin Blackburn, "The Comfort Women of Singapore in History and Memory" (National U of Singapore Press, 2022)
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"Comfort women" or ianfu is the euphemism used by the Japanese military for the women they compelled to do sex work in the Second World War. The role of comfort women in history remains a topic of importance — and emotion — around the world. It is well-known that an elaborate series of comfort stations, or comfort houses, were organised by the Japa…
Nancy Flowers continues her conversation with host Bill Fernekes. The episode begins with a discussion about some of the USA’s inaugural human rights education (HRE) books, conferences, and other projects in which Nancy was involved. The episode continues with conversations about reproductive rights, cultural norms, transnational solidarity buildin…
Nancy Flowers discusses her early life interest in human rights and social justice as a prelude to her involvement in human rights activism through Amnesty International (AI). She also addresses the origins of human rights education (HRE) in the USA and its gradual evolution from work done by Amnesty International USA in the late 1980s to the prese…
In this episode, Dr Gillian Kane interviews Giulia Dedej, Shannon Kenny García Núñez, and Emma Kelly, LLM students who are working on the Human Rights Podcast this year. They discuss their studies, what they are enjoying about life at the ICHR, and what we can expect to hear in upcoming episodes of the podcast. Some resources and links mentioned in…
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Martin Scott and Kate Wright, "Humanitarian Journalists: Covering Crises from a Boundary Zone" (Routledge, 2022)
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How can the news better reflect important global issues? In Humanitarian Journalists Covering Crises from a Boundary Zone (Routledge, 2022), Drs Martin Scott, an Associate Professor in Media & Development at the University of East Anglia and Kate Wright, Senior Lecturer and Chancellor's Fellow in Media and Communication at the University of Edinbur…
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Autism – invisible and easily overlooked?
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Canada provides universal healthcare, but people with autism and their families struggle significantly against many barriers and a lack of service. Support is commonly offered following a diagnosis, but what happens when an individual either cannot get one, or is considered too old for one? Host Emma Nahmiach speaks with experts about the lack of s…
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Justice, or JUST US - Police Killing of Tyre Nichols, with Ron Hampton
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Season 2, Episode 2 of Human Rights and Justice centers on the issue of police brutality, with a focus on the police killing of Tyre Nichols. Host Nkechi Taifa interviews Guest Ron Hampton, retired DC police officer and expert on policing in the U.S. and globally, discussing his recent statement on this latest beating and murder of an unarmed and d…
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Anti-Imperialist/Anti-Fascist/Anti-Racist Response to Ukraine Conflict
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Human Rights and Justice host Nkechi Taifa interviews representatives of the Brooklyn in Justice Collective who discuss the organization's statement on the current crisis in Ukraine. The statement was issued and targeted largely to the Western left, "which has shown itself to be weak and underdeveloped compared to the rest of the world, and is at a…
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New Books in Human Rights


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Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic, "Monumental Names: Archival Aesthetics and the Conjuration of History in Moscow" (Routledge, 2022)
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Monumental Names: Archival Aesthetics and the Conjuration of History in Moscow (Routledge, 2022) asks us to consider: what stands behind the propensity to remember victims of mass atrocities by their personal names? Grounded in ethnographic and archival research with Last Address and Memorial, one of the oldest independent archives of Soviet politi…
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Border Lines: Refugees and the International Order
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Climate change and war have flung millions of people on the move, who often seek safe harbor in the very countries responsible for their displacement. But despite the lofty ideals and supposed simplicity of international refugee law, it turns out borders are not really the fixed lines on a map we imagine them to be. Guests: Deborah Anker is Clinica…
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Benedict Rogers, "The China Nexus: Thirty Years in and Around the Chinese Communist Party's Tyranny" (Optimum Publishing, 2022)
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The China Nexus: Thirty Years In and Around the Chinese Communist Party's Tyranny (Optimum Publishing, 2022) brings together Benedict Rogers' 30 years of advocacy, research and work in and around China. Opening with his rollicking adventures as an 18 year old teaching English in Qingdao in 1992, the human element of this monograph, the real people …
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“Destroy this Temple” book chat with Obi Egbuna, Jr.
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Human Rights and Justice host Nkechi Taifa chats with Obi Egbuna, Jr. about the republishing of the iconic book of his father, "Destroy this Temple,” first published in 1971. The senior Egbuna was a Nigerian-born novelist, playwright and political activist known for being a member of the British Black Panther movement (1968-72) during the years he …
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“About the People” grassroots project
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Human Rights and Justice talk show host Nkechi Taifa interviews Brother Tag and Sister Aleta from the Spirit of Mandela's "About the People," a grassroots project, about its premiere audio-visual broadcast installment #1: Camp Muntaqim, which will feature Revolutionary Elder Jalil Muntaqim and Incarcerated Organizer Kwame Shakur, as well as the pro…
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Michael Fleming, "In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Poland, the United Nations War Crimes Commission, and the Search for Justice" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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In the midst of the Second World War, Central and East European governments-in-exile struggled to make their voices heard as they reported back to the Allies and sought to reach mass Allied publics with eyewitness testimony of German atrocities committed in their respective homelands. The most striking case is that of Poland, whose wartime exile go…
In this week's episode, we talk to Ruth Rubio, Professor in the School of Transnational Governance at the European University Institute, about her book, Global Gender Constitutionalism and Women’s Citizenship: A Struggle for Transformative Inclusion, published by Cambridge University Press (ISBN: 9781316630303). Transcript available on the Oxford H…
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History and Reflections of the Reparations Movement in the U.S.
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Talk Show Host Nkechi Taifa shares her Reparations Roundup News and Views recording of her Feb. 2022 testimony before the California Reparations Task Force, on Episode 18 of Human Rights and Justice. The title of her testimony is History and Reflections of the Reparations Movement in the U.S.Autor: Nkechi