The Rights of Others Olga Martin-Ortega, Seema Joshi, Fakhar Raza

Human rights violations and environmental degradation, including climate change continue to be exacerbated by unsustainable consumption and production practices across all sectors, and particularly in fashion.
Greenwich Circular Textiles team including Fakhar Raza is joined by Project Leads Ceylan Akbas, Dilara Altun, Eva Souchet and Research Lead Fatimazahra Dehbi, for a casual chat reflecting on the climate crisis, the Greenwich Circular project, and how we can all facilitate social change through small acts.

In this episode we talk to Heather White, labour rights expert and researcher about human rights in China, massive and systematic violations of the rights of the Uyghur community, funding Verité and moving on in search for more impact to protect workers' rights. We talk about her globally acclaimed documentary ‘COMPLICIT’ and her next projects in fiction. We even get a preview of the script she has been working on in the past months!

In this episode Olga and Seema talk to Mauricio Lazala, Deputy Director of the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre about how the BHR field has evolved and the role of the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre in inserting the environmental dimension and bringing the voices and leadership from the Global South to the fight against corporate abuse. Mauricio tells us about his fascinating journey from activism in Israel to his current role as one of the strategic leaders setting up the agenda for corporate justice.

In this episode we talk to Salil Tripathi, a pioneer on corporate accountability work about his journey, how the field has grown and what are the many challenges that remain. In it Olga finally has the chance to tell him how starstruck she was the first time she met him and what an inspiration he has always been for the business and human rights community.

In this episode Sheung So shares with Olga and Raza her journey from mainland China to working to protect human rights in global supply chains from Hong Kong. She tells us about how the law and context has changed and how rights of workers get eroded and organsiations struggle to support them as China tightens its restrictions on civil society.

In this first episode of Season 2 we talk to Makmid Kamara, Project Director of the MacArthur Foundation Fund about corporate accountability and transitional justice, African leadership in fighting COVID and discrimination and racism in the civil society sector.