The Human Rights Podcast

On 16th October 2019, musicians Lisa Knapp and Gerry Diver visited NUI Galway to give a lunchtime concert as part of NUI Galway's Arts in Action programme. Arts in Action is the brainchild of renowned singer and NUI Galway lecturer, Mary McPartlan, and Mary joined Lisa and Gerry towards the end of their performance. For this podcast episode, all three musicians met with Dr Maeve O'Rourke, Lecturer...

Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Trafficking in Persons, especially women and children, was appointed as an Adjunct Professor of Human Rights at the Irish Centre for Human Rights in June 2019. In September 2019, she delivered her first lecture as Adjunct Professor to incoming LLM students. The recording of the lecture is available on the ICHR's YouTube channel: h...

This podcast was recorded on 23rd September 2019 during the global week of climate action. In this episode, Sadhbh O'Neill, political theorist, environmental activist and representative of Friends of the Irish Environment (FIE), discusses the concept of climate justice. She also explains two recent judgments of the Irish High Court in cases brought by FIE, and she refers to ongoing activism by the...

In this pilot episode of The Human Rights Podcast from the Irish Centre for Human Rights at the National University of Ireland, Galway, we speak to Professor Donncha O'Connell about Ireland's progress towards a human rights-based approach to policing. Among the many topics we discuss are community policing, state security and access to justice. This episode is published on the first anniversary of...