Bölümler
-
With North Korea becoming ever more repressive and closed to the outside world, what is the best path to change? For some, aggressive advocacy for human rights is needed; for others, especially an older generation of North Koreans who have found their way to the south, unification of the two Koreas should be the priority. Still others, particularly the younger generation of South Koreans, doubt the value of devoting a lot of energy and resources to changing the status quo. Hanna Song, Executive Director of the Database Center for North Korean Human Rights, reflects on what underlies the differing views and ambivalence and argues that it’s critical to understand and listen to those who have escaped from North Korea.
And in the Coda, a Zimbabwean human rights lawyer relies on soccer to keep things cordial. Music by Oliver Mtukudzi.
https://strengthandsolidarity.org/podcasts/
Contact us at [email protected] -
Things can get tense between lawyers, police and judges when human rights cases are being litigated. But veteran human rights lawyer Arnold Tsunga has a tried and tested strategy for keeping things cordial.
Music by Oliver Mtukudzi.
https://strengthandsolidarity.org/podcasts/Contact us at [email protected]
-
Eksik bölüm mü var?
-
Israel’s war on Gaza and its population has now been underway for 13 months. An estimated 42,000 Palestinians have died from the violence. A further 62,000 are reported to have died from starvation, and 5,000 more for lack of medical care and drugs. The vast majority of those who have lost their lives are women and children. Despite the clamor for powerful states to intervene and stop the killing, Israel’s campaign continues unimpeded. The International Court of Justice has advised that occupation of Palestinian territory is unlawful and ordered provisional measures to avert genocide, yet governments seem paralyzed, unable to uphold international law despite their clear legal obligation to do. Can the international human rights system survive this failure?
https://strengthandsolidarity.org/podcasts/
Contact us at [email protected]
-
The Strength & Solidarity team would be grateful for your help. With nearly 50 episodes under our belt we need some feedback from our listeners. Please go to this link and fill in our four-minute survey so we can get a better sense of what you, our listeners think of the show and how we can improve: https://s.surveyplanet.com/t0ly0puk
Thank you for your feedback!
-
Strength & Solidarity Season 6 will start in November. Meanwhile we’re repeating some of our favourite shows from past seasons. This week we're revisiting episode 37, first released, November 9, 2023.
Original Episode Description from November 2023:
Uganda has become one of Africa’s frontlines in the battle for LGBT rights. In 2014 a law was passed criminalizing same-sex conduct but it was nullified by the courts on a technicality. This year that same legislation was revived, passed again in parliament and signed into law by President Museveni. The penalties it prescribes include the death penalty and the queer community is vulnerable and anxious. Uganda lawyer Nicholas Opiyo talks about a litigation effort underway to nullify the Anti-Homosexuality Act 2023 and shines a light on the role of actors behind the scenes, including US Pentecostal activists.
And in the Coda, a young Mexican disability leader finds inspiration and joy in a film about a brilliant generation of activists.
For a list of supplemental readings and additional information about this episode’s content, visit https://strengthandsolidarity.org/podcasts/
Contact us at [email protected]
-
Strength & Solidarity Season 6 will start in November. Meanwhile we’re repeating some of our favourite shows from past seasons. This week we're revisiting episode 39, first released, December 21, 2023.
Original Episode Description from December 2023:
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) turned 75 on the 10 December 2023. Passed by the UN General Assembly in the wake of two brutal world wars, it expressed an aspiration for a new world, one in which every human being’s rights would be acknowledged and respected, and international law would regulate the actions of states and hold them accountable for violations. That vision is as powerful today as it was then and it has sometimes, and in some places, been realized. But the failures are many. Despite their pledge, governments have repeatedly abandoned principle to pursue their own interests, leaving ordinary people – sometimes an individual, sometimes millions – without protection from brutal mistreatment or immiseration and lacking any recourse. Why does the the global human rights system fail? And can it be made to work? A group of moderators from the Symposium on Strength and Solidarity for Human Rights get round a table to argue it out.
For a list of supplemental readings and additional information about this episode’s content, visit https://strengthandsolidarity.org/podcasts/
Contact us at [email protected]
-
Strength & Solidarity Season 6 will start in November. Meanwhile we’re repeating some of our favourite shows from past seasons, starting with episode 40, first released, January 11, 2024.
Original Episode Description from January 2024:
It is now three months since the October 7 brutal attack by Hamas on targets in Israel which triggered the Israeli bombardment of Gaza in which a reported 21,000 people have so far been killed. In the US, as much as widespread condemnation was expressed after the Hamas attack, the subsequent death toll in Gaza and suffering of surviving civilians have shattered whatever remained of a consensus on Israel. Polls show rising public criticism of Israel’s actions, and of the Biden Administration for continuing to supply Israel with arms. Week after week there are protests, and present in large numbers among the diverse crowds are Jews carrying signs that say, “Not in my name.” One of several organisations mobilising those protests is Jewish Voice for Peace. JVP’s Executive Director Stefanie Fox explains how they have built their movement against the grain of mainstream US politics.
And in the Coda, a human rights lawyer talks about her artistic practice and how it connects with her work supporting communities to seek justice.
For a list of supplemental readings and additional information about this episode’s content, visit: https://strengthandsolidarity.org/podcasts/
Contact us at [email protected]
-
People power has been on display in Kenya as tens of thousands of citizens faced down tear gas and live bullets forcing the government to withdraw legislation that would have mandated higher taxes. Notwithstanding enthusiastic praise for leaderless movements, Gen Z and the power of digital tools, it should not be forgotten that Kenya has a deep tradition of grassroots organizing dating back to the bitter struggle against British colonial rule. It has regularly re-emerged in subsequent decades to challenge authoritarian rule, election theft and corruption. One emergent grouping currently organizing countrywide is the Social Justice Centres movement and its coordinating body, the Social Justice Centres Working Group. National Convenor Happy Olal talks about how the movement took root in the capital Nairobi a decade ago, and has kept on growing.
And in the Coda, how an invitation to tell personal histories revealed Burmese women’s powerful activism.
https://strengthandsolidarity.org/podcasts/
Contact us at [email protected]
-
Although women were, and still are, deeply involved in Burma’s fight against military rule, their contributions were often invisible.. Activist and advocate Debbie Stothard recalls that when she started paying attention, she discovered that “the auntie making our tea in the kitchen was a former resistance fighter.” She began getting women to write down their stories, with remarkable results.
https://strengthandsolidarity.org/podcasts/
Contact us at [email protected]
-
Back in 2020, a hashtag - #MilkTeaAlliance – began appearing across the Internet. Netizens in Hong Kong and Taiwan, Thailand, Japan and the Philippines seemed to be building a cross-regional solidarity movement to support pro-democracy activists, like the young people defying the generals who launched Myanmar’s coup in 2021. Even though the hashtag was so visible online, it was hard to see an actual movement in the real world. Did it really exist? How did it come about and who did it represent? And with the apparent waning of the hashtag’s use, is it about to disappear? We talk to Marc Batac, co-founder and facilitator of the Milk Tea Alliance (Friends of Myanmar).
And in the coda… Why does a Malaysian human rights leader moonlight as a TV script writer?
https://strengthandsolidarity.org/podcasts/
Contact us at [email protected]
-
Sevan Doraisamy started writing film scripts when he was still a student and despite a shift into social justice activism and – eventually – leadership, he has never stopped. He explains why it’s important to him and how it helps him to avoid burning out.
https://strengthandsolidarity.org/podcasts/Contact us at [email protected]
-
In 2022 the United States’ Supreme Court ruled that there is no constitutional right to an abortion, triggering a flood of measures in multiple states to restrict reproductive rights. But further south, that same year, Colombia’s Constitutional Court ruled in the opposite direction. Colombian feminists had mounted a massive campaign and legal strategy to get abortion removed from the penal code and although they didn’t fully achieve that goal, abortion was decriminalized up to 24 weeks - a huge victory for the reproductive rights movement. Catalina Martínez Coral, Vice-president in Latin America for the Center for Reproductive Rights recalls the strategy behind the campaign.
And in the coda… a library becomes an inspiration and a home for Germany’s black and diaspora community.
https://strengthandsolidarity.org/podcasts/
Contact us at [email protected]
-
Racial justice activist Daniel Gyamerah celebrates the foresight of an Afro-German woman who over the course of her lifetime collected hundreds of books by black authors and bequeathed them to Berlin’s black and diaspora community to create the library that became EOTO – Each One Teach One.
https://strengthandsolidarity.org/podcasts/
Contact us at [email protected]
-
The shack dwellers of South African cities have been abandoned by their government, left to try and make homes on land they don’t own, without sanitation or electricity, and vulnerable to adverse weather or corrupt and violent law enforcement. But being poor and marginalized doesn’t mean you are powerless. The social movement Abahlali baseMjondolo which organizes in the informal settlements has a membership of 120,000 and rising, and a remarkable record of defending its communities against eviction, despite a series of assassinations and deaths at the hands of the police during evictions that have taken 25 of its grassroots leaders. Abahlali’s General Secretary, Thapelo Mohapi, explains the movement’s organizing approach, strategies, and it's formal structures, and how it is responding to violent attacks and marginalization by the ruling ANC.
And in the coda… Audre Lorde shows a Sierra Leonean activist how her fear might be a guide to her purpose.
https://strengthandsolidarity.org/podcasts/
Contact us at [email protected]
-
Eleanor Thompson, a Sierra Leonean human rights lawyer and social justice activist in Freetown has been reading an essay by Audre Lorde, written during a period of heightened awareness of her mortality. Lorde reflects on the ways we avoid speaking our truth in case we provoke anger or rejection and comes to see that our fear may in fact be a guide to our purpose, a powerful insight for Eleanor.
https://strengthandsolidarity.org/podcasts/
Contact us at [email protected]
-
Activists can boost their power and impact by combining their efforts, but persuading diverse actors to work together can be challenging. Organizations and movements working on multiple issues may disagree on policy and principle or set conditions on their collaboration so bringing them into alignment can take energy and resources that are in short supply. The Rising Majority coalition with around 70 member organisations combines black, indigenous and other groups of people of colour, as well as movements on race, climate, gender, policing, labor issues, immigration and economic and environmental justice – in short, its members’ priorities are varied. Rising Majority grew out of the Movement for Black Lives - M4BL for short - amid the realisation that even though individual groups had overarching goals in common, they weren’t taking advantage of their collective power. Rising Majority’s National Director Loan Tran, explains why that changed in 2017.
And in the coda…a UK activist discovers that if you want to keep going, you have to learn to stop.
https://strengthandsolidarity.org/podcasts/
Contact us at [email protected]
-
Katrina French is an activist in constant motion, pursuing multiple projects in her area of expertise, racism in UK policing and the criminal justice system. But there came a moment when she realized she was close to burning out and decided to take avoiding action.
https://strengthandsolidarity.org/podcasts/
Contact us at [email protected]
-
Many grow up being told that although there are bad guys in the world, the police are there to keep you safe. But this episode hears from someone who had to recognize that police saw her community not as deserving of protection, but as the source of problems. In communities where there is already too much traumatizing violence, a heavy-handed police response frequently increases the harm. According to the British campaigning organisation, 4Front, 193 teenagers died at the hands of London police between 2009 and 2019. 4Front’s Executive Director Temi Mwale describes her early awakening to this reality, her search for tools and strategies to respond, and activists’ efforts to hold police to account .
For a list of supplemental readings and additional information about this episode’s content, visit https://strengthandsolidarity.org/podcasts/
Contact us at [email protected]
-
For decades, Latin America’s reporters have treasured a celebration of their craft by one of their most beloved writers, the late Gabriel Garcia Marquez - a great novelist but also a passionate journalist. Jonathan Bock was, until recently, one of them. He runs an organization in Colombia that defend media freedom and he is having to face up to a harsh reality.
For a list of supplemental readings and additional information about this episode’s content, visit https://strengthandsolidarity.org/podcasts/
Contact us at [email protected] -
It is now three months since the October 7 brutal attack by Hamas on targets in Israel which triggered the Israeli bombardment of Gaza in which a reported 21,000 people have so far been killed. In the US, as much as widespread condemnation was expressed after the Hamas attack, the subsequent death toll in Gaza and suffering of surviving civilians have shattered whatever remained of a consensus on Israel. Polls show rising public criticism of Israel’s actions, and of the Biden Administration for continuing to supply Israel with arms. Week after week there are protests, and present in large numbers among the diverse crowds are Jews carrying signs that say, “Not in my name.” One of several organisations mobilising those protests is Jewish Voice for Peace. JVP’s Executive Director Stefanie Fox explains how they have built their movement against the grain of mainstream US politics.
And in the Coda, a human rights lawyer talks about her artistic practice and how it connects with her work supporting communities to seek justice.
For a list of supplemental readings and additional information about this episode’s content, visit: https://strengthandsolidarity.org/podcasts/
Contact us at [email protected]
- Daha fazla göster
