The Human Rights Pulse Podcast

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 significant effects on Indigenous and human rights. Lycia focuses on the ongoing inequity of small communities in important matters and big entities’ lack of accountability to the current social dilemmas.

News Briefing Special: Ukrainian refugees and the threat of human trafficking

Hanna Kit, Ukrainian activist and founder of the Hear.Speak.Free campaign [https://www.instagram.com/hear.speak.free/], speaks to Laura Sanzarello about how the fragilities of war create greater risk for human trafficking, unveiling a greater level of tragedy for those who have lost everything, but can always lose more. Get more of Human Rights Pulse’s content by visiting our website: https://www.humanrightspulse.com/ [https://www.humanrightspulse.com/]

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 for the Human Rights Act, his hit Netflix film, and why even at 70 years old he will never stop fighting for the rights of others.

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 massive human rights abuses are recorded along with a growing refugee crisis; also India receives new criticism for its most recent crackdown on freedom of expression across the country and especially in Kashmir; finally, while China tries to resolve its latest confrontation with the #MeeToo movement, more attention is being paid to national attempts at sportswashing to distract the international community from their institutionalised human rights violations. Hosted by Laura Sanzarello and Nigel Chidombwe.

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 release, of democratic prime minister Abdalla Hamdok and a massive wave of pro-democratic protests sweeping the streets of the nation; Belarus instigated a crisis on its borders with EU member states in retaliation for the sanctions imposed on the country and for the refused recognition of the elections that saw Lukashenko winning by a landslide in 2020; and finally, the conflict in Ethiopia is reaching new levels of violence, with the country on the brink of civil war and worsening conditions for the people on the ground. Hosted by Laura Sanzarello and Nigel Chidombwe.