Making rights real: Human rights to end poverty

Making rights real: Human rights to end poverty

In this episode, we look at how human rights standards and frameworks can be used to support action on poverty. We focus in particular on the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, which covers rights from equal pay for equal work to decent living conditions. Our guests in this episode are Siobhán Harding from Women's Support Network [https://x.com/WSN_NI] and Helen Flynn from Just Fair. [https://justfair.org.uk/]

Rights for all - building inclusive environments for women of all backgrounds

This episode explores how rights based policy making can effectively support women from migrant, refugee, asylum seeker and ethnic minority backgrounds. Guests in this episode are Julia Fitzpatrick from Migrant Centre NI [http://migrantcentreni.org/] and Risa Basselin, who highlight experiences of women from a diversity of backgrounds living in Northern Ireland.

Gender budgeting: Implementing rights in practice

Episode 4 explores how gender budgeting can be used as a concrete tool to help realise human rights standards and frameworks, and how gender budgeting can be integrated effectively into policy making. Guests in this episode are Alexandra Brennan from the Northern Ireland Women's Budget Group [https://niwbg.org.uk/] and Omna Sreeni-Ong from Engender Consultancy [https://www.engenderconsultancy.org/] and the Gender Budget Group in Malaysia.

Human rights, diversity and intersectionality

Episode 3 explores how diversity and intersectionality link to human rights standards and frameworks, and how intersectionality can be integrated effectively into policy making. Guests in this episode are Alexa Moore from the Rainbow Project [https://www.rainbow-project.org/] and Pirkko Mahlamäki from the European Disability Forum. [https://www.edf-feph.org/]

Human rights, diversity and intersectionality

In this episode, we explore what intersectionality means, and how it relates to international human rights, with Alexa Moore from the Rainbow Project in Northern Ireland and Pirkko Mahlamäki from the European Disability Forum.