The final episode of Rights on the Line, a podcast I created and produced for Irish human rights NGO Front Line Defenders.
#UDHR70 Listen to this episode of #RightsOnTheLinePodcast to hear HRDs reflect firsthand on the importance of – and limitations of – UN Declarations on the 70th anniversary of the UN Declaration on #HumanRights and 20th anniversary of the Declaration on #HumanRightsDefenders.
A Bulletin for Rights on the Line, a podcast I created and produced for Irish human rights NGO Front Line Defenders.
Rights on the Line brings you a brief bulletin from Paris today where a hundred and fifty human rights defenders from across the globe have gathered for the Human Rights Defenders World Summit.
A Bulletin for Rights on the Line, a podcast I created and produced for Irish human rights NGO Front Line Defenders.
Front Line Defenders boardmember Arnold Tsunga speaks from Mozambique today, to give update on the situation in Zimbabwe following Monday’s presidential election. Six people have been killed by police who fired at protestors with live rounds, tear gas and water cannons. In addition to the violent response to demonstrations, there are reports of the military preemptively targeting Human Rights Defenders to prevent dissent.
A Bulletin for Rights on the Line, a podcast I created and produced for Irish human rights NGO Front Line Defenders.
Today, Rights on the Line brings you a brief bulletin on the current election in Zimbabwe. Front Line Defenders Boardmember, Africa Director of the International Commission of Jurists and Executive Director of Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights, Arnold Tsunga, has returned to Zimbabwe to participate in today’s federal election. Arnold, who is part of a team conducting election monitoring, spoke with Rights on the Line from a polling station in Mutare earlier today to update us on how election day is going.
A Profile segment from Rights on the Line, a podcast I created and produced for Irish human rights NGO Front Line Defenders.
While in town to meet with legislators on the potential Occupied Territories Bill, Palestinian human rights defender Shawan Jabarin sat down with Rights on the Line to discuss his work defending human rights in Palestine as well as responsibility of the international community to intervene and advocate on behalf of those subject to actions that violate international human rights law.
Feature Episode 5 of Rights on the Line, a podcast I created and produced for Irish human rights NGO Front Line Defenders.
On 20 June, at an event alongside the United Nations Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva, Front Line Defenders released a report on the killings of HRDs worldwide. Focusing on the six countries with the highest number of killings, and by that we mean targeted attacks, assassinations, extrajudicial killing by the state or authorities. To bring you additional insight into this issue, Rights on the Line spoke to human rights defenders from Mexico, the Philippines and Brazil, three of the six countries profiled in the report.
Feature Episode 3 of Rights on the Line, a podcast I created and produced for Irish human rights NGO Front Line Defenders.
On this episode of Rights on the Line, we’ll be discussing some of the risks faced by environmental rights defenders advocating against large-scale development projects. We’ll hear from two HRDs, Francisco Simon Francisco of Guatemala and Nelson La Madrid in Bolivia. We also spoke to Front Line Defenders’ Head of Protection Ed O’Donovan and HRD Visibility Coordinator Maria San Martin.
Feature Episode of Rights on the Line, a podcast I created and produced for Irish human rights NGO Front Line Defenders.
#LGBTRights On the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia, Rights on the Line brings you three interviews with three LGBTI rights defenders. Listen to hear them speak about the work they do, the consequences they face for their advocacy and the unique challenges LGBTI defenders face within the human rights movement.
Tune in to hear from:
Anouar Rahmani, independent novelist and LGBT rights defender in Algeria
Blessol Gathoni, LGBT activist and community organizer working in Kenya
Yildiz Tar, the Media and Communications Officer for Turkish LGBT organization Kaos GL
Feature Episode 4 of Rights on the Line, a podcast I created and produced for Irish human rights NGO Front Line Defenders.
On the 70th anniversary of the creation of the state of Israel, known as al Nakba, or the catatrsophe, as it resulted in the displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian people. Today marks 70 years of the existence of this state and it’s apartheid regime that routinely violates the human rights of Palestinian people, international law and United Nations conventions. To mark this day, Rights on the Line brings you three interviews with advocates of human rights in Palestine:
Sahar Francis the Director of Adammeer, a prisoner’s rights organization
Jamal Juma, Coordinator of the Stop the Wall campaign
Omar Barghouti, the co-founder of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement
Feature Episode 2 of Rights on the Line, a podcast I created and produced for Irish human rights NGO Front Line Defenders.
For International Women’s Day, we’re handing the mic over to a few of many WHRDs who work every day of the year for their own rights and the rights of their communities. Tune in to hear these WHRDs speak about their work as human rights defenders:
Ruth Komuntale #Uganda #LandRights
Graciela Pérez Rodriguez #Mexico #Impunity
Emel Kurma #Turkey #Civil&Political Rights
Sindy Joyce #Ireland #IndigenousRights
Tasneem Ahmed Taha Zaki #Sudan #WomensRights
Kimsor Lim #Cambodia #EnvironemntalRights
Hauwa Haruna #Nigeria #WomensRights #RightToEducation
Hannah Vu #Vietnam #EnvironmentalRights
Today is #InternationalWomensDay but these women are advocating for human rights all year round. Listen to hear about their work and the human rights violation their communitites are facing.
Haseena Manek