The Human Rights Pulse Podcast
Conversations with inspiring human rights defenders.
- Update frequency
- every 22 days
- Average duration
- 28 minutes
- Episodes
- 24
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2022
Indigenous Rights & Climate Change: In discussion with Lycia Maddocks at COP26
In this podcast Lycia Maddocks talks with host Laura Williams about the importance of Indigenous representation at COP, exposing the reality behind the climate crisis conversations and their signific…
News Briefing Special: Ukrainian refugees and the threat of human trafficking
Hanna Kit, Ukrainian activist and founder of the Hear.Speak.Free campaign, speaks to Laura Sanzarello about how the fragilities of war create greater risk for human trafficking, unveiling a greater l…
In conversation with Peter Tatchell: 55 years fighting for LGBT+ freedom
Peter Tatchell has spent 55 years campaigning for human rights, LGBT+ freedom and global justice. Here, he speaks to George Cooper for Human Rights Pulse about the UK's transphobia problem, his fears…
This week's biggest human rights news (22 November - 13 December 2021)
Check out our latest biweekly podcast focusing on the latest human rights developments and stories from around the world.
In the past weeks, the Anglophone crisis in Cameroon reached new highs, as ma…
This week's biggest human rights news (25 October - 22 November 2021)
Check out our latest biweekly podcast focusing on the latest human rights developments and stories from around the world.
In the past month, a military coup rocked Sudan, with the arrest, and recent …
This week's biggest human rights news (11 October - 25 October 2021)
Check out our latest biweekly podcast focusing on the latest human rights developments and stories from around the world.
In the past two weeks, Texas monopolised headlines in the US for a series of …
The Lawyers at the Forefront of the Refugee crisis
Philip Worthington, Managing Director of European Lawyers in Lesvos, talks to Rosie about how his organisation has been a legal lifeline to 12,000 asylum seekers in the camps in Greece. To support Ph…
This week's biggest human rights news (27 September - 11 October 2021)
Check out our latest biweekly podcast focusing on the latest human rights developments and stories from around the world.
In the past two weeks, 200 k…
This week's biggest human rights news (13 September - 27 September 2021)
Check out our latest biweekly podcast focusing on the latest human rights developments and stories from around the world.
In the past two weeks, the EU passed a resolution calling for the UAE to rele…
A conversation with Diana Elena Stoica on cultural heritage as a human right.
In this episode, Human Rights Pulse coordinator for ArtPulse, Diana Elena Stoica, unpacks how cultural heritage relates to human dignity and the right to life, and in what directions society and inst…
This month's biggest human rights news (2 August - 13 September 2021)
Check out our latest biweekly podcast focusing on the latest human rights developments and stories from around the world.
In the past two weeks, hardliners and internationally recognised terrorists a…
This week's biggest human rights news (19 July - 2 August 2021)
In the past two weeks, an investigation conducted by a group of media outlets reveals concerning details about the spyware Pegasus and how it poses a threat to personal rights and international secur…
This week's biggest human rights news (5 July - 19 July 2021)
In the past two weeks, anger over shortages of food and medicines turn people to protest against the government in Cuba; the arrest of former South African president Jacob Zuma causes riots and looti…
This week's biggest human rights news (21 June - 5 July 2021)
In the last two weeks, Eswatini struggles to bring democracy to the last absolute monarchy in Africa. Meanwhile, the UN urges states to take action regarding the risk for refugees and stateless peopl…
This week's biggest human rights news (7 - 21 June 2021)
In the last two weeks, the ongoing crisis in Myanmar brings the country on the brink of a humanitarian crisis and an economic collapse, amidst accusations of violations of privacy regulations by the …
This week's biggest human rights news (25 May - 7 June 2021)
In the last two weeks: (1) Representatives of the Herero and Nama communities in Namibia have rejected the €1.1 billion reparations offer made by the German government; (2) Belarus' hijacking of a pl…
Disorder in the International Order - The Inept Response to #AidToo
Rosie Fowler speaks to Priyanka Chirimar, attorney for survivors of discrimination and sexual harassment within international aid organisations. Hear her shed light on the system that’s failing survi…
This week's biggest human rights news (10-24 May 2021)
In the last two weeks: riots and police brutality in Colombia followed a tax reform proposal that outraged the population; a new bill in Hong Kong tackling fake news is in the making, highly likely t…
Environmental Justice series: An interview with James Sedlak about fighting wildfires and the threat of migration
This episode is part of a series of short interviews with climate change and environmental justice activists in collaboration with Earth Refuge and E & U For The Climate. In this episode, James Sedla…
A conversation with Emma Vogelmann about disability rights in the mainstream human rights discourse
"You are not disabled; it is society that disables you". As the Disability Discrimination Act marks its 25th anniversary in Britain, Emma discusses her work as an activist in the disability rights sp…