Making rights real: Women’s Platform

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Welcome to our podcast series! In this series, we’re looking at what human rights mean in practical, everyday life with experts from Northern Ireland and across Europe. The series aims to demystify international human rights standards and connect them to women’s daily lives, to look at how rights based approaches can create better societies for women and girls. Join us as we explore issues from why rights matter to ending violence against women and girls, intersectional practice and gender budgeting! The podcast is made possible by support from the Dormant Accounts Fund NI.

Episodes

  1. 04/16/2025

    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 and Helen Flynn from Just Fair.

    17 min

  2. 03/21/2025

    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 and Risa Basselin, who highlight experiences of women from a diversity of backgrounds living in Northern Ireland.

    16 min

  3. 02/12/2025

    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 and Omna Sreeni-Ong from Engender Consultancy and the Gender Budget Group in Malaysia.

    18 min
  4. Human rights, diversity and intersectionality

    01/08/2025

    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 and Pirkko Mahlamäki from the European Disability Forum.

    20 min

  5. 11/26/2024

    Making rights real: Ending violence against women and girls

    In this episode, we explore how human rights frameworks can help end violence against women and girls and support effective action, with Sonya McMullan and Karen Devlin from Women's Aid Federation NI.

    21 min

  6. 11/26/2024

    Making rights real: The idea of rights and everyday life

    In our first episode, we hear from Olivia Potter-Hughes at Northern Ireland Human Rights Consortium and Aslihan Tekin, a human rights lawyer based in Brussels, Belgium. Olivia and Aslihan chat about why human rights matter for all of us, and how they link to women's everyday lives.

    19 min
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Welcome to our podcast series! In this series, we’re looking at what human rights mean in practical, everyday life with experts from Northern Ireland and across Europe. The series aims to demystify international human rights standards and connect them to women’s daily lives, to look at how rights based approaches can create better societies for women and girls. Join us as we explore issues from why rights matter to ending violence against women and girls, intersectional practice and gender budgeting! The podcast is made possible by support from the Dormant Accounts Fund NI.

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