On the side of humanity: Courageous human rights defenders living and working around the globe

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On the side of humanity: Courageous human rights defenders living and working around the globe

In our second season Tatyana Movshevich meets abortion rights defenders from across the world – from Venezuela to Morocco, from Malta to Namibia. Amid all the disinformation and hostility, abortion rights defenders have found themselves in the blinding spotlight – against their will and expectation. In this podcast we hear their stories and find out how they work against the backdrop of violence and stigma. And how they are also driving one of the most significant social shifts in recent years. For season credits please see https://www.amnesty.org/on-the-side-of-humanity

Episodes

  1. Episode 3: An unstoppable wave

    SEP 27

    Episode 3: An unstoppable wave

    In the Mexican state of Guanajuato women used to be imprisoned for abortions or miscarriages for decades - Veronica Cruz Sanchez’s fierce campaigning led to their unexpected release. Now Veronica’s organization Las Libres is running a secret network of volunteers who are sending free abortion medication to women in the U.S. Tatyana Movshevich explores how the global movement of abortion rights defenders known as the Green Wave was born.

    26 min
  2. Episode 2: A labyrinth with no exit

    SEP 27

    Episode 2: A labyrinth with no exit

    Namibian midwife Sylvia Hamata battles against double standards and abortion stigma in the climate which leaves many of her colleagues paralyzed with fear. Advocate Stephanie Willman Bordat shares previously untold stories of women in Morocco who have been ostracized by society and family for the impossible choices they faced. Later we find out how a human tragedy sparked a huge change in Ireland.

    23 min
  3. Episode 1: A knock on the door

    SEP 27

    Episode 1: A knock on the door

    Amnesty International’s Tatyana Movshevich meets Venezuelan teacher Vanessa Rosales. When her 13-year student was raped, Vanessa helped her to get an abortion and was arrested for it. We also travel to Malta where the country’s only open pro-choice gynaecologist is running a phone-in abortion advice service – at great personal and professional risk.

    30 min
  4. Episode 3: Unknown names and faces

    12/08/2023

    Episode 3: Unknown names and faces

    Irish activist Sean Binder tells Amnesty International’s Tatyana Movshevich how his freedom was compromised while he was saving lives on an idyllic Greek island. Later we travel to Ghana - there a journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas works deep undercover to investigate some of the gravest crimes imaginable.  (Episode cover image © Muntaka Chasant)

    30 min
  5. Episode 2: Long-ignored

    12/08/2023

    Episode 2: Long-ignored

    Queer Black activist Monica Simpson from the U.S. and Dalit feminist Durga Sob from Nepal live across the world from each other, but are both fighting against intersecting forms of discrimination that have been ignored for generations. Racism and caste-discrimination are rife and the two human rights defenders are facing grave risks because of their work. Monica Raye Simpson’s ‘Freedom Song’ in episode 2 is from her album ‘Revolutionary Love’

    28 min
  6. Episode 1: Hard-won words and new crises

    12/08/2023

    Episode 1: Hard-won words and new crises

    Amnesty International’s Tatyana Movshevish discovers the story behind the watershed UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders which was adopted in 1998 after decades of diplomacy, negotiations and confrontation. She also meets a Chilean water defender Lorena Donaire whose life was turned upside down as she was tackling the catastrophic results of a mega-drought. Lorena’s voiceover in Episode 1 is done by Selina Nelte

    25 min
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In our second season Tatyana Movshevich meets abortion rights defenders from across the world – from Venezuela to Morocco, from Malta to Namibia. Amid all the disinformation and hostility, abortion rights defenders have found themselves in the blinding spotlight – against their will and expectation. In this podcast we hear their stories and find out how they work against the backdrop of violence and stigma. And how they are also driving one of the most significant social shifts in recent years. For season credits please see https://www.amnesty.org/on-the-side-of-humanity

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