Rights on the Line

Send us Fan Mail In the last two weeks, unwarranted violence against Palestinians by Israeli authorities has increased. Palestinians on the ground have resisted, and in turn, Israeli forces have since used repeated excessive force on Palestinians. As Airstrikes continue, Israel is cracking down on media with strong censorship of Palestinian content, and the recent targeted bombing of Al-Jazeera an...

Send us Fan Mail We discuss the challenges faced by human rights defenders working on gender and LGBTI issues, in light of the recent withdrawal of Turkey from the Istanbul Convention. We chat to Aslıhan Tekin, the EU Representative /Alternate Board Member of the European Women's Lobby Coordination for Turkey, as well as Yildiz Tar, Media and Communications Program Coordinator at Kaos GL, an...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we discuss the findings of the Front Line Defenders Global Analysis report 2020, focusing on the impact of Covid-19 on the work of human rights defenders, especially in terms of digital security and lockdown regulations. Guests include: Ed O' Donovan, Head of Protection at Front Line Defenders; a HRD from Zambia, an HRD from the Colombian organisation '&...

Send us Fan Mail This is a special episode, produced by the Coalition for Human Rights in Development. in collaboration with Front Line Defenders. Ahead of the upcoming Finance in Common Summit in Paris, we speak with defenders in Kenya, Guatemala and India, about the human rights impact of projects imposed in the name of developmentFrom the 9th to the 12th of November, all public development bank...

Send us Fan Mail Episodio SP 2 - Defender Derechos En Tiempos De COVID - 19Una conversación con Sandra Patago, Front Line Defenders; Guillermo Rodríguez García. Oficial de incidencia del programa para México y centroamérica del Centro por la Justicia y el Derecho Internacional (CEJIL); Argentina Casanova, codirectora ejecutiva de la RNDDHMX; Waquel Drullard, facilitadore de proyectos en Artículo 1...

Send us Fan Mail Interview with Palestinian artist and human rights defender Hafez Omar for Cypher 02:https://www.frontlinedefenders.org/sites/default/files/cypher02.pdf Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/frontlinedefenders/

Send us Fan Mail Episode 9 - Watched & Monitored: Protecting HRDs from Surveillance- FLD Intro: 00:00 - 01:20- Hussein Radhi, Bahrain: 01:20 - 04:38- BIll Marczak, The Citizen Lab, Canada: 04:39 - 16:11- Tahir Imran, Pakistan: 16:12 -30:02- Zehida Bihorac, Bosnia & Herzegovina: 30:03 - 36:02 Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/frontlinedefenders/

Send us Fan Mail Episode 8 - HRDs & Wellbeing: Rest & Respite For Resiliency- FLD Intro: 00:00 - 01:50- Abdifatah Hassan Ali, Somalia: 01:50 - 13:05- Anna Sharyhina, Ukraine: 13:05 - 18:41- Atziri Avila, Mexico: 18:42 -24:50With the global pandemic continuing to impose social distancing and other changes to our lives, human rights defenders are increasingly dealing with new types of stress...

Send us Fan Mail Season 2, Episode 7 - HRDs Defending Digital Space- FLD Intro: 00:00 - 01:18- Rabah Nouami, Morocco: 01:18 - 09:42- Larisa Schmillevitch, Brazil: 09:43 - 22:45- Asan 'AJ', South Sudan,: 22:46 - 29:31- HRD, Sri Lanka: 29:32 - 39:54In this episode of the Front Line Defenders podcast Rights on the Line, we’ll hear from human rights defenders in Morocco, Sri Lanka, South Sud...

Send us Fan Mail Season 2, Episode 6 - Hong Kong MomentThis episode takes us to Hong Kong, where citizens are facing an unprecedented crisis brought on by China’s announcement that it would introduce new national security legislation to control the territory. Hong Kong saw a massive uprising of protest in 2019 against what was seen as moves by the Chinese government to infringe on the basic freedo...

Send us Fan Mail Episodio SP 1 - COVID-19, Respuestas de los Gobiernos & Las Defensoras de Derechos Humanos en América Latina- FLD Intro: 00:00 - 02:52- Sara García Gross, El Salvador: 02:52 - 07:52- Manuela Roya, Chile: 07:52 - 15:41- Miriam Miranda, Honduras: 15:41 - 31:04- María Ciro: 31:04 - 40:28Front Line Defenders presenta una edición especial del podcast Rights on the Line, enfocándose...

Send us Fan Mail Season 2, Episode 5 - The COVID-19 Crisis & Prisons in Iran- FLD Intro: 00:00 - 02:02- Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Prize Winner & Lawyer: 02:03 - 05:03- Roya Boroumand, Executive DIrector, AB Center: 05:03 - 20:44(including testimonies from Iranian prisoners)This episode of Rights on the Line focuses on the prison situation in Iran during the COVID-19 pandemic, and is a collaborat...

Send us Fan Mail Season 2, Episode 4 - COVID-19, HRDs & Government Response: Focus on India- FLD Intro: 00:00 - 04:22- Gayatri Khandhadai, Tamil Nadu: 04:22 - 24:48- Anindya Hajra, West Bengal: 24:48 - 37:25- Sadam Hanjabam, Manipur: 37:25 - 50:32- HRD, Kashmir: 50:32 - 1:08:58India has not been hit as hard by the COVID-19 pandemic as other countries, at least not in official statistics. While...

Send us Fan Mail Season 2, Episode 3 - When COVID-19 Cleared the Streets:What Next for Social Protests in Chile, Iraq & Algeria?- FLD Intro: 00:00 - 01:38- Interview Manuela Royo, Chile: 01:38 - 09:49- Interview with Mariam Al-Ashbal, Iraq: 09:49 - 16:23- Interview with Leila Chaimaa Souama, Algeria: 16:23 - 21:53Across the globe, 2019 was the year of packed squares and swarming streets, as te...

Send us Fan Mail Season 2, Episode 2 - COVID-19 & HRDs: Defending the Marginalized - China, Poland & Rohingya In Bangladesh- FLD Intro: 00:00 - 02:07- Interview with Lu Pin, China: 02:07 - 16:03- Interview with Karolina Wieckiewicz, Poland: 16:04 - 27:01- Interview with Rohingya HRD, Bangladesh: 27:02 - 31:52Across the world, human rights defenders are adapting to life under the COVID-19 p...

Send us Fan Mail www.frontlinedefenders.orgSeason 2, Episode 1FLD Intro: 00:00 - 02:51Interview with Yara Hawari, Palestine: 02:51 - 12:48Interview with William Amanzuru, Uganda: 12:48 - 26:36Interview with Sara García Gross, El Salvador: 26:36 - 33:03As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads across the globe, and communities seek to protect themselves however they can, governments are being challenged to...

Send us Fan Mail #UDHR70 Listen to this episode of #RightsOnTheLinePodcast to hear HRDs reflect firsthand on the importance of - and limitations of - UN Declarations on the 70th anniversary of the UN Declaration on #HumanRights and 20th anniversary of the Declaration on #HumanRightsDefenders. Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/frontlinedefenders/

Send us Fan Mail Rights on the Line brings you a brief bulletin from Paris today where a hundred and fifty human rights defenders from across the globe have gathered for the Human Rights Defenders World Summit. Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/frontlinedefenders/

Send us Fan Mail Brazilian human rights defender Pâmella Passos. Pamella spent six weeks in Dublin as part of Front Line Defenders’ Rest and Respite program earlier this summer, just months after the death of her friend and well-known human rights defender and councilwoman Marielle Franco, who was murdered in Rio de Janeiro in on the 14th of March. Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode we talk about elections and how they can impact human rights defenders. By looking at some of the federal elections that have taken place this year, we’ll be able to see the different and nuanced ways political changes at the national level can impact the situation for those fighting for human rights in that country. Over the next half hour we’ll be moving region t...

Send us Fan Mail Front Line Defenders boardmember Arnold Tsunga speaks from Mozambique today, to give update on the situation in Zimbabwe following Monday's presidential election. Six people have been killed by police who fired at protestors with live rounds, tear gas and water cannons. In addition to the violent response to demonstrations, there are reports of the military preemptively targe...

Send us Fan Mail Today, Rights on the Line brings you a brief bulletin on the current election in Zimbabwe. Front Line Defenders Boardmember, Africa Director of the International Commission of Jurists and Executive Director of Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights, Arnold Tsunga, has returned to Zimbabwe to participate in today’s federal election. Arnold, who is part of a team conducting election moni...

Send us Fan Mail On 20 June, at an event alongside the United Nations Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva, Front Line Defenders released a report on the killings of HRDs wordlwide. Focusing on the six countries with the highest number of killings, and by that we mean targeted attacks, assassinations, extrajudicial killing by the state or authorities. To bring you additional insight into this is...

Send us Fan Mail While in town to meet with legislators on the potential Occupied Territories Bill, Palestinian human rights defender Shawan Jabarin sat down with Rights on the Line to discuss his work defending human rights in Palestine as well as responsibility of the international community to intervene and advocate on behalf of those subject to actions that violate international human rights l...

Send us Fan Mail #LGBTRights On the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia, Rights on the Line brings you three interviews with three LGBTI rights defenders. Listen to hear them speak about the work they do, the consequences they face for their advocacy and the unique challenges LGBTI defenders face within the human rights movement. Tune in to hear from:Anouar Rahmani, inde...