Strength & Solidarity

Strength & Solidarity
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Strength & Solidarity

A podcast featuring the people and ideas that are driving -and disrupting -human rights around the world. You can learn more about the project at our website, www.strengthandsolidarity.org. We welcome your feedback and your suggestions. In particular, if you have a poem or text, a speech, or a piece of music that expresses something important about your own commitment to rights, please tell us about it at pod@strengthandsolidarity.org.

  1. JAN 28

    49. Myanmar: What a decade of democracy meant for LGBTQ rights

    In 2011, nearly 50 years of military dictatorship came to an end in Myanmar,  allowing LGBTQ activists to organize publicly to repeal a homophobic law, and advocate more positive attitudes towards SOGIE (Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Expression) rights.  They were making big strides in their campaigns when a military coup returned the generals to power, making open activism impossible. Despite that, Hla Myat Tun Executive Director of LGBTQ group, Colors Rainbow, says the gains they made are holding strong and they continue to work underground.   And in the Coda, an Indonesian activist tells us why books mean so much to her. https://strengthandsolidarity.org/podcasts/ Contact us at pod@strengthandsolidarity.org

    39 min

  2. JAN 27 · BONUS

    49.[Excerpt] The Coda: ‘Books are a freedom for me’

    Indonesian human rights defender Fatia Maulidiyanti spent over two years fighting criminal defamation charges brought by a government minister, charges that could have landed her in jail.  But when life gets complicated, Fatia has her own private refuge to which she can retreat and recharge. https://strengthandsolidarity.org/podcasts/ Contact us at pod@strengthandsolidarity.org

    5 min

  3. 12/17/2024

    48. North Korea: What future do Koreans want, and do they agree?

    With North Korea becoming ever more repressive and closed to the outside world, what is the best path to change? For some, aggressive advocacy for human rights is needed; for others, especially an older generation of North Koreans who have found their way to the south, unification of the two Koreas should be the priority.  Still others, particularly the younger generation of South Koreans, doubt the value of devoting a lot of energy and resources to changing the status quo.   Hanna Song, Executive Director of the Database Center for North Korean Human Rights, reflects on what underlies the differing views and ambivalence and argues that it’s critical to understand and listen to those who have escaped from North Korea. And in the Coda, a Zimbabwean human rights lawyer relies on soccer to keep things cordial. Music by Oliver Mtukudzi. https://strengthandsolidarity.org/podcasts/ Contact us at pod@strengthandsolidarity.org

    54 min

  4. 12/17/2024 · BONUS

    48. [Excerpt] The Coda: Soccer as a strategy for cooling passions

    Things can get tense between lawyers, police and judges when human rights cases are being litigated.  But veteran human rights lawyer Arnold Tsunga has a tried and tested strategy for keeping things cordial. Music by Oliver Mtukudzi. https://strengthandsolidarity.org/podcasts/ Contact us at pod@strengthandsolidarity.org

    6 min

  5. 11/15/2024

    47. Gaza: Is the global human rights system at risk?

    Israel’s war on Gaza and its population has now been underway for 13 months. An estimated 42,000 Palestinians have died from the violence.  A further 62,000 are reported to have died from starvation, and 5,000 more for lack of medical care and drugs.  The vast majority of those who have lost their lives are women and children.  Despite the clamor for powerful states to intervene and stop the killing, Israel’s campaign continues unimpeded.  The International Court of Justice has advised that occupation of Palestinian territory is unlawful and ordered provisional measures to avert genocide, yet governments seem paralyzed, unable to uphold international law despite their clear legal obligation to do.  Can the international human rights system survive this failure? https://strengthandsolidarity.org/podcasts/ Contact us at pod@strengthandsolidarity.org

    43 min

  6. 10/11/2024 · BONUS

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    The Strength & Solidarity team would be grateful for your help. With nearly 50 episodes under our belt we need some feedback from our listeners. Please go to this link and fill in our four-minute survey so we can get a better sense of what you, our listeners think of the show and how we can improve: ⁠https://s.surveyplanet.com/t0ly0puk⁠ Thank you for your feedback!

    1 min

  7. 09/19/2024 · BONUS

    Best Of: 37. Uganda: Fighting to turn back a law – and anti-LGBT hatred

    Strength & Solidarity Season 6 will start in November. Meanwhile we’re repeating some of our favourite shows from past seasons. This week we're revisiting episode 37, first released, November 9, 2023. Original Episode Description from November 2023: Uganda has become one of Africa’s frontlines in the battle for LGBT rights. In 2014 a law was passed criminalizing same-sex conduct but it was nullified by the courts on a technicality. This year that same legislation was revived, passed again in parliament and signed into law by President Museveni. The penalties it prescribes include the death penalty and the queer community is vulnerable and anxious. Uganda lawyer Nicholas Opiyo talks about a litigation effort underway to nullify the Anti-Homosexuality Act 2023 and shines a light on the role of actors behind the scenes, including US Pentecostal activists. And in the Coda, a young Mexican disability leader finds inspiration and joy in a film about a brilliant generation of activists. For a list of supplemental readings and additional information about this episode’s content, visit https://strengthandsolidarity.org/podcasts/ Contact us at pod@strengthandsolidarity.org

    38 min

  8. 08/29/2024 · BONUS

    Best Of: UDHR@75: Can our human rights system ever fulfill its promise?

    Strength & Solidarity Season 6 will start in November. Meanwhile we’re repeating some of our favourite shows from past seasons. This week we're revisiting episode 39, first released, December 21, 2023. Original Episode Description from December 2023: The ⁠Universal Declaration of Human Rights⁠ (UDHR) turned 75 on the 10 December 2023. Passed by the UN General Assembly in the wake of two brutal world wars, it expressed an aspiration for a new world, one in which every human being’s rights would be acknowledged and respected, and international law would regulate the actions of states and hold them accountable for violations. That vision is as powerful today as it was then and it has sometimes, and in some places, been realized. But the failures are many. Despite their pledge, governments have repeatedly abandoned principle to pursue their own interests, leaving ordinary people – sometimes an individual, sometimes millions – without protection from brutal mistreatment or immiseration and lacking any recourse. Why does the the global human rights system fail? And can it be made to work? A group of moderators from the Symposium on Strength and Solidarity for Human Rights get round a table to argue it out. For a list of supplemental readings and additional information about this episode’s content, visit ⁠https://strengthandsolidarity.org/podcasts/⁠ Contact us at pod@strengthandsolidarity.org

    48 min
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A podcast featuring the people and ideas that are driving -and disrupting -human rights around the world. You can learn more about the project at our website, www.strengthandsolidarity.org. We welcome your feedback and your suggestions. In particular, if you have a poem or text, a speech, or a piece of music that expresses something important about your own commitment to rights, please tell us about it at pod@strengthandsolidarity.org.

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  • Creator
    Strength & Solidarity
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2025
  • Episodes
    104
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