Episodes
Thursday Mar 07, 2024
HUMANITY UNITES: Women as peacebuilders
Thursday Mar 07, 2024
Thursday Mar 07, 2024
Across the world, women and girls are leading the fight for peace and equality. Yet despite their essential role in peacebuilding, women human rights defenders still face challenges when it comes to getting a seat at the tables of power. This episode of the UN Human Rights Podcast explores how women are trying to bring peace to conflicts around the world, with grassroots activist Riya William Yuyada, Laila Alodaat, Deputy Secretary General at the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, and Nicole Ameline, former chair of the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women.
Monday Mar 04, 2024
Monday Mar 04, 2024
In 2015, 193 countries – all of the then members of the United Nations --adopted the Sustainable Development Goals. The SDGs, as they are known, are a set of 17 goals, which call for urgent action for all countries to work together to build peace and prosperity for people and the planet.
Professor Sandra Liebenberg from Stellenbosch University in South Africa, understands the SDGs and there integral link with human rights. A former member of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, she is currently a professor of human rights law. In this episode, she explains how these global goals are underpinned by human rights.
Thursday Feb 29, 2024
VOICES OF DIGNITY: Sports champion human rights with Mary Harvey
Thursday Feb 29, 2024
Thursday Feb 29, 2024
Sports and human rights are natural allies. Concepts of good sportsmanship, fair play, inclusion, teamwork -- all show the links between the two. In this episode of the UN Human Rights Podcast, Mary Harvey, Chief Executive of the Centre for Sports and Human Rights, discusses how sports are a vehicle to ensure that rights are promoted and respected.
Thursday Feb 22, 2024
VOICES OF DIGNITY: Defending the defenders with Hassan Shire
Thursday Feb 22, 2024
Thursday Feb 22, 2024
Networking is an important tool in protecting human rights defenders, says Hassan Shire. Hassan is the chair of the Pan African Human Rights Defenders Network, a group of five African sub-regional organizations dedicated to the promotion and protection of human rights defenders. In this episode of the UN Human Rights Podcast, Hassan talks about how connections can save lives.
Thursday Feb 15, 2024
Thursday Feb 15, 2024
"Unfortunately, human rights as they're applied today, as they're implemented today, are not universal or indivisible," says Farida Shaheed. In this episode of the UN Human Rights Podcast Voices of Dignity, Farida , the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to education., takes us on a wide-ranging discussion encompassing education, cultural rights, and how technology could be causing fundamental harm to very young children.
Thursday Feb 08, 2024
VOICES OF DIGNITY: Pathways to Justice with Eleanor Kennedy
Thursday Feb 08, 2024
Thursday Feb 08, 2024
"I think its a false premise that human rights are dead." This edition of Voices of Dignity focuses on pathways to justice with Eleanor Kennedy from the Open Society Foundation (OSF). In late 2023. OSF published its first groundbreaking study looking into attitudes toward human rights. Its findings proved both groundbreaking and thought-provoking, demonstrating that human rights are still valuable but concrete action is needed to enact them.
Thursday Feb 01, 2024
VOICES OF DIGNITY: Epsy Campbell Barr on the Intersection of rights and culture
Thursday Feb 01, 2024
Thursday Feb 01, 2024
"We have to open the doors to put the perspective in human rights in all areas that we are working on." Espy Campbell Barr is no stranger to activism and opening doors. As the former vice president and Minister of Foreign Affairs in her native Costa Rica, she has advocated for the rights of communities on the margins from inside the government. A self-described Afro-feminist, she has worked at the intersections of the rights of women and people of African descent as part of several activists organizations, including the Centre for Afro-descendant Women, the Afro-descendant Institute for Study, Research and Development, and the Black Parliament of the Americas. She talks about how human rights is essential in the fight against racism, discrimination and intolerance.
Wednesday Jan 17, 2024
VOICES OF DIGNITY -- Foundations of Freedom with Attiya Waris
Wednesday Jan 17, 2024
Wednesday Jan 17, 2024
"Human beings can declare bankruptcy, really easily, but you cannot have a country declare bankruptcy." Since 2021 Attiya Waris of Kenya has been the UN Independent Expert on Foreign debt, financial obligations and human rights. She sat to discuss with us foreign debt, finances and human rights and how these seemingly disparate concepts are connected and necessary for human development and happiness.
Rights in your ear
Human rights belong to everyone, everywhere and here we have human rights for your ears. The UN Human Rights Podcast will host seasons of audio, telling stories, holding conversations on the people, policies and places that affect our human rights. Join us for regular conversations, discussions and debates on issues that affect us all. Human rights are the solution to many of the challenges facing the world. Here, is a chance to hear some of the solutions.