About On the side of humanity: Courageous human rights defenders living and working around the globe
In our second season Tatyana Movshevich meets abortion rights defenders from across the world – from Venezuela to Morocco, from Malta to Namibia. Amid all the disinformation and hostility, abortion rights defenders have found themselves in the blinding spotlight – against their will and expectation. In this podcast we hear their stories and find out how they work against the backdrop of violence and stigma. And how they are also driving one of the most significant social shifts in recent years.
For season credits please see https://www.amnesty.org/on-the-side-of-humanity
Fatema Uzgun Nusrat discusses her work creating a secret online school for girls and women in Afghanistan, providing access to education despite the Taliban's ban, in an interview with Lisa Maracani.
27 Sept 2024
Episode 3: An unstoppable wave
In the Mexican state of Guanajuato women used to be imprisoned for abortions or miscarriages for decades - Veronica Cruz Sanchez’s fierce campaigning led to their unexpected release. Now Veronica’s organization Las Libres is running a secret network of volunteers who are sending free abortion medication to women in the U.S. Tatyana Movshevich explores how the global movement of abortion rights defenders known as the Green Wave was born.
27 Sept 2024
Episode 2: A labyrinth with no exit
Namibian midwife Sylvia Hamata battles against double standards and abortion stigma in the climate which leaves many of her colleagues paralyzed with fear. Advocate Stephanie Willman Bordat shares previously untold stories of women in Morocco who have been ostracized by society and family for the impossible choices they faced. Later we find out how a human tragedy sparked a huge change in Ireland.
27 Sept 2024
Episode 1: A knock on the door
Amnesty International’s Tatyana Movshevich meets Venezuelan teacher Vanessa Rosales. When her 13-year student was raped, Vanessa helped her to get an abortion and was arrested for it. We also travel to Malta where the country’s only open pro-choice gynaecologist is running a phone-in abortion advice service – at great personal and professional risk.
Queer Black activist Monica Simpson from the U.S. and Dalit feminist Durga Sob from Nepal live across the world from each other, but are both fighting against intersecting forms of discrimination that have been ignored for generations. Racism and caste-discrimination are rife and the two human rights defenders are facing grave risks because of their work.
Monica Raye Simpson’s ‘Freedom Song’ in episode 2 is from her album ‘Revolutionary Love’
8 Dec 2023
Episode 1: Hard-won words and new crises
Amnesty International’s Tatyana Movshevish discovers the story behind the watershed UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders which was adopted in 1998 after decades of diplomacy, negotiations and confrontation. She also meets a Chilean water defender Lorena Donaire whose life was turned upside down as she was tackling the catastrophic results of a mega-drought.
Lorena’s voiceover in Episode 1 is done by Selina Nelte
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