Framing Human Rights

Drohnen und Künstliche Intelligenz sind aus modernen Kriegen kaum noch wegzudenken. Seit 2001 gehört die permanente Angst vor US-Drohnenangriffen zum Alltag vieler Menschen in Afghanistan oder im Jem…

We have been raised and operate in an environment in which narrations on “migration” and “migrants” are intrinsically racist and colonial. The terms themselves attempt to eclipse and decontextualise …

Listen to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967. Francesca speaks about her mandate in the context of the ongoing gen…

Die neue Folge „Staatsräson gegen Grundrechte“ beschäftigt sich mit der deutschen Staatsräson im Kontext der anhaltenden Kriegsverbrechen Israels in Gaza. Welche politischen, rechtlichen sowie gesell…

In this episode, Ethiopian-American author Maaza Mengiste and Italian artist and photographer Laura Fiorio sit down with ECCHR General Secretary Wolfgang Kaleck.

The conversation centers on the colon…

Human rights in times of crises #2

Law not only organizes and secures economic profits, it is a crucial factor in creating wealth. Katharina Pistor (author, Columbia Law School) speaks with Guillermo…

Human rights in times of crises #1

Welcome to ECCHR’s talk series on resistance and concrete utopias. With our conversations, we want to create the necessary platform for actors from all over the wor…

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Contemporary feminist movements have developed significantly worldwide in ways that speak to their revolutionary potential – including within authoritarian contexts…

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The COVID-19 pandemic has, in unprecedented ways, highlighted the importance of the right to health. The pandemic sharpens the focus on social inequalities between …

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Human rights can help affected communities and others achieve their demands for sustainable climate policies. They can also force governments and businesses to conn…

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From widespread surveillance, torture and disappearances to the increased criminalization of protest and restrictive rules on associations, we are unquestionably wi…

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Colonialism continues to shape our current social, economic, and political world order to a substantial degree. In a discussion with prominent human rights advocate…

#10 The German colonial period (1884-1920) led and still leads to immense losses of lives, land, resources and sovereignty. To this day, thousands of human remains that were gathered in colonial expl…

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Writer, activist and ECCHR Advisory Board member Priya Basil sits down with ECCHR General Secretary Wolfgang Kaleck to talk about legacies of colonial and postcolonial injustice and German memory …

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Eyal Weizman, founding director of research agency Forensic Architecture and ECCHR General Secretary Wolfgang Kaleck speak about the new joint initiative between Forensic Architecture and ECCHR: I…

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Bénédicte Savoy, Kunsthistorikerin und Professorin an der TU Berlin und dem Collège de France spricht mit ECCHR-Generalsekretär Wolfgang Kaleck über Restitutionen von geraubter Kolonialkunst und …

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Fred Ritchin, photographer and dean emeritus of the International Center of Photography, and ECCHR General Secretary Wolfgang Kaleck discuss the  role graphic images have in photojournalism to rai…

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This episode is about the debut novel The Blood of the Dawn — La Sangre de la Aurora by Claudia Salazar Jiménez. Salazar Jiménez and Karina Theurer, director of ECCHR’s Institute for Legal Interve…

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Lebanese performance and video artist Rabih Mroué speaks with ECCHR General Secretary Wolfgang Kaleck about how he treats the impact of violent images in his work. Beginning with his piece PIXELAT…

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In this episode, curator and cultural historian Mark Sealy and Wolfgang Kaleck, ECCHR general secretary, talk about the challenges of visual representation. They discuss the visuals of violence an…