RightsUp: The Oxford Human Rights Hub Podcast (OxHRH) aims to bring together academics, practitioners, and policy-makers from across the globe to advance the understanding and protection of human rights and equality. Through the vigorous exchange of ideas and resources, we strive to facilitate a better understanding of human rights principles, to develop new approaches to policy, and to influence the development of human rights law and practice.
In this episode, Justin Winchester speaks to Professor Başak Çalı, Professor of International Law at the University of Oxford and the Head of Research at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights. We discuss her 2025 Bonavero Report, co-authored with Dr Marcelo Lozada, ‘From Litigation to Implementation: Framing Smart Remedies in Rights-based Climate Litigation’.
Join us for reflections on the report’s story, contribution, and potential to the case of climate litigation, and perhaps even beyond.
RightsUp is brought to you by the Oxford Human Rights Hub.
Executive produced by Meghan Campbell.
Hosted by Justin Winchester.
Produced and edited by Sophie Smith.
Music for the series is by Rosemary Allman.
29 Sept 2026
Pink Crime: Fighting Against the Criminalization of Motherhood, Pregnancy, and Queer Identity
If you find yourself trying to explain how the law is actively fueling and reinforcing gender ideology in the United States, the book you will want to have on hand is Valena Beety’s ‘Pink Crime: Fighting Against the Criminalization of Motherhood, Pregnancy, and Queer Identity’.
In this episode, Justin Winchester speaks to Professor Beety about no-crime convictions, substantive equality, queerness and solidarity, and much more.
RightsUp is brought to you by the Oxford Human Rights Hub.
Executive produced by Meghan Campbell.
Hosted by Justin Winchester.
Produced and edited by Sophie Smith.
Music for the series is by Rosemary Allman.
29 Apr 2026
The Right to Early Childhood Care and Education - Episode 2
International human rights law should protect and promote every individual’s human rights. But the reality is that international covenants on human rights appear remote and unattainable for the vast majority of ordinary people. This perception is supported by the structure of international human rights law, which is based on agreements between States and on the expectation that States will be true to their obligations in relation to the human rights of their own citizens. This podcast, however, recounts how international human rights can become a collaborative project, with individuals and civil society working from the grassroots upwards and from the international sphere downwards to develop and enforce human rights obligations on States.
The subject matter of this journey is one of central importance: the care and education of the youngest amongst us. Our interviewees today have been a part of a process of advocating for and advancing the protection of early childhood education as a human right through collaborative ‘top-down’ and ‘bottom-up’ approaches. We will be speaking with project partners from a variety of organisations who share their experience of shaping human rights law interpretation and enforcement through practical advocacy, particularly on the right to ECCE.
In the second episode of this series we speak to Ann Skelton, a South African jurist and children's rights activist, and former chairperson of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), Rajakumari Michaelsamy, programme manager at Right to Education Initiative (RTE) and Africa Early Childhood Network (AfECN) representatives Alicia Lutomia and Esther Nyamatini.
RightsUp is brought to you by the Oxford Human Rights Hub.
The Executive Producer is Meghan Campbell.
This episode was produced, edited and hosted by me, Sophie Smith.
Music for this series is by Rosemary Allmann.
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