Human Rights Chat

مرحبًا بكم في حلقةٍ جديدةٍ من بودكاست " دردشة عن حقوق الإنسان " لبرنامج التكتيكات الجديدة في حقوق الإنسان. وحلقتنا اليوم بعنوان: " ارفع صوتك: قصة حملةٍ لمناهضة التعذيب "، حوارٌ مع الناشطة والمتخصصة في مجال حقوق الإنسان سارة نصر الله حول حملة " ارفع صوتك ضد التعذيب ".

In this episode, we explore how expanding access to dignified work can transform lives and communities—especially for refugees navigating barriers to employment. Featuring insights from Lorraine Charles, the founder and executive director of Na'amal. Lorraine works at the intersection of migration, technology, and workforce development. Her work challenges dominant narratives around displaceme...

Water is a human right—yet billions still lack reliable access to safe water. In this episode of Human Rights Chat , host Melissa McNeilly speaks with Sunil Lalvani, founder of Project Maji, a nonprofit delivering sustainable, solar-powered water systems to rural communities across sub-Saharan Africa. Inspired by a life-changing encounter in rural Ghana, Sunil set out to address a major gap in glo...

This episode of Human Rights Chat focuses on what’s happening in Minnesota in 2026 as heightened and militarized immigration enforcement creates fear, instability, and harm for refugee and asylum-seeking communities. Host Melissa McNeilly is joined by two experts from the Center for Victims of Torture (CVT) to unpack how immigration enforcement and detention impact mental health, healing, and huma...

مرحباً بكم في حلقة جديدة من بودكاست " دردشةعن حقوق الإنسان " لبرنامج التكتيكات الجديدة في حقوق الإنسان وحلقتنا اليوم بعنوان: " العمل الرقمي: حرية جديدة أم استغلال بصيغة رقمية؟" ؛ حوار مع الدكتور ربيعفخري جميل حول العمل الرقمي وحقوق الإنسان. 📖 نص البودكاست الكامل متوفر من خلال الرابط: https://bit.ly/4jkh3dy

في هذه الحلقة من بودكاست "دردشة عن حقوق الإنسان" من برنامج التكتيكات الجديدة في حقوق الإنسان ، نستضيف هلا مراد ، المدافعة عن العدالة المناخية والمديرة التنفيذية لجمعية دبين للتنمية البيئية. تشاركنا هلا رحلتها الممتدة لأكثر من سبعة عشر عامًا في العمل البيئي والحقوقي، وتحدثنا عن رؤيتها في ربط البيئة بحقوق الإنسان، ودور العدالة المناخية في تحقيق التوازن بين التنمية وحماية الموارد. كما تسلط الضوء على...

Since 1996, New Tactics in Human Rights has strengthened the work of advocates and defenders worldwide through strategic training, resources, and tactical innovation. In this episode of Human Rights Chat , host Noah Biasco speaks with Doug Johnson (former executive director of CVT, founder of New Tactics, longtime human rights leader, and current lecturer at Harvard Kennedy School) and Nancy Pears...

In this episode of Human Rights Chat , New Tactics in Human Rights' host, Melissa McNeilly, speaks with Susie Hughes, cofounder and Executive Director of the International Coalition to End Transplant Abuse in China. The conversation delves into the harrowing issue of forced organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience in China, a practice that has been condemned worldwide. Susie shares her extens...

In this episode of Human Rights Chat , New Tactics intern, Grace McDonough, sat down with Emily Hunt Turner, Aretina Williams and Diamond Fletcher - key staff at All Square. Their mission is clear: to heal the wounds inflicted by the criminal legal system and to challenge the way society views and uses criminal records. Their work is rooted in a unique approach that includes a craft grilled cheese...

مرحبًا بكم في حلقة جديدة من بودكاست دردشة عن حقوق الانسان وموضوع هذه الحلقة "رنين: مغامرات في عالم من الروايات المسموعة"، حيث تأخذكم مؤسسة رنين في رحلة مشوقة إلى عالم الاستماع الإبداعي وتنمية المهارات السمعية للأطفال. في هذا البودكاست، سنتناول دور مؤسسة رنين الرائد في تعزيز ثقافة الاستماع لدى الأطفال وكيف يمكن للأصوات والروايات أن تفتح لهم أبواب الخيال والإبداع. كما تؤمن بحق التعليم والإلهام كأدوا...

لطالما كانت المطالبة بالمساواة بين الرجل والمرأة تشكل جزءًا أساسيًا من التطور الاجتماعي والثقافي في المجتمعات. يعكس هذا الاهتمام بتحقيق المساواة تفاعلات اجتماعية عميقة، حيث لا يقتصر الأمر على النقاشات السياسية والحقوق القانونية فقط، بل يتعداها ليشمل مجالات متنوعة مثل التعليم والعمل والمشاركة في اتخاذ القرار. هذه المطالبات لا تشكل ظاهرة حديثة، بل تمتد عبر العصور. حيث يعتبر أول مؤتمر لحقوق المرأة في...

Despite international standards such as the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners, and the Nelson Mandela Rules, which obligate states to treat incarcerated individuals with respect for human dignity, Solitary Watch estimates that 120,000 people in the US are living in solitary confinement . These individuals are isolated in small, closed cells with no meaningful hum...

In 2014, ISIS launched deadly attacks against the Yazidi people in northern Iraq. Thousands were killed, exiled, or forced into slavery. Nine years later, Yazidi survivors are still struggling to rebuild and reunite families, with little attention from the international community. In this episode of Human Rights Chat, we interview human rights advocates from Yazda organization, the Yazidi Survivor...

In this episode of Human Rights Chat, New Tactics interviews Freshta Karim, the founder and executive director of the Charmaghz mobile library in Afghanistan. Charmaghz provides space for children to play, learn, and envision a new future for their country. Read more on this tactic here. Afghanistan continues to face a critical educational crisis. Only 7% of children are able to read by the age of...

Every year the U.S. spends $80 billion to keep more than two million people incarcerated. The US makes up 5% of the global population, but holds 20% of its prisoners. We’re the global leader in a contest no one wants to win. U.S. police kill more than 1,000 people annually, and the data shows that BlPOC Americans are disproportionately killed and abused. The use of excessive force, violence and br...

Activists do such crucial work–fighting against injustices and protecting the most vulnerable, yet this challenging work often has a detrimental effect on activist mental health. Activists and human rights defenders experience high levels of fatigue, burnout, and secondary trauma. In this episode of Human Rights Chat, New Tactics staff interview Loretta Pyles, author of Healing Justice: Holistic S...

Documenting the impact of human rights advocacy work can be difficult. Traditional strategies to track and evaluate progress are often ill-suited to monitor progress in a field where change can be hard to measure. Still, better understanding how and why organizations succeed can help inform and strengthen strategy.

In collaboration with podcasts The Irrelevant Arabs (@ irrelevantarabs )and Palestinians Podcast (@ PalestiniansPod ), as well as Sylvia Thomas, producer at Freedom Podcasting Company and Barbara Frey, director of the Human Rights Program at the University of Minnesota, New Tactics created its own podcast that explores issues of representation, the value of oral storytelling, and accessibility in...