Welcome to our podcast series! In this series, we’re looking at what human rights mean in practical, everyday life with experts from Northern Ireland and across Europe. The series aims to demystify international human rights standards and connect them to women’s daily lives, to look at how rights based approaches can create better societies for women and girls.
Join us as we explore issues from why rights matter to ending violence against women and girls, intersectional practice and gender budgeting!
The podcast is made possible by support from the Dormant Accounts Fund NI.
Making Rights Real - Equality Legislation in Northern Ireland and gender equality
In this episode of Making Rights real we discuss equality legislation in Northern Ireland and how it affects women; the Good Friday Agreement nearly 30 years on and implications of the recent Dillon decision alongside wider discussion on feminism. Our guest is Dr Aislinn Fanning, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow and Chair of Women's Platform.
16 Apr 2025
Making rights real: Human rights to end poverty
In this episode, we look at how human rights standards and frameworks can be used to support action on poverty. We focus in particular on the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, which covers rights from equal pay for equal work to decent living conditions. Our guests in this episode are Siobhán Harding from Women's Support Network and Helen Flynn from Just Fair.
21 Mar 2025
Rights for all - building inclusive environments for women of all backgrounds
This episode explores how rights based policy making can effectively support women from migrant, refugee, asylum seeker and ethnic minority backgrounds. Guests in this episode are Julia Fitzpatrick from Migrant Centre NI and Risa Basselin, who highlight experiences of women from a diversity of backgrounds living in Northern Ireland.
12 Feb 2025
Gender budgeting: Implementing rights in practice
Episode 4 explores how gender budgeting can be used as a concrete tool to help realise human rights standards and frameworks, and how gender budgeting can be integrated effectively into policy making. Guests in this episode are Alexandra Brennan from the Northern Ireland Women's Budget Group and Omna Sreeni-Ong from Engender Consultancy and the Gender Budget Group in Malaysia.
8 Jan 2025
Human rights, diversity and intersectionality
Episode 3 explores how diversity and intersectionality link to human rights standards and frameworks, and how intersectionality can be integrated effectively into policy making. Guests in this episode are Alexa Moore from the Rainbow Project and Pirkko Mahlamäki from the European Disability Forum.
26 Nov 2024
Making rights real: Ending violence against women and girls
Women's Aid Federation NI experts Sonya McMullan and Karen Devlin examine how human rights frameworks can end violence against women and girls and drive effective action.
26 Nov 2024
Making rights real: The idea of rights and everyday life
Olivia Potter-Hughes and Aslihan Tekin explore how human rights impact women's everyday lives, revealing the critical importance of these rights for individual empowerment and collective progress.
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