Rights Talk
With authoritarianism, nationalism, and xenophobia on the rise, gaping global wealth disparities, and the accelerating climate emergency, human rights appear increasingly fragile. Rights Talk is devoted to engaging contemporary challenges around the world across the human rights spectrum of civil and political rights; economic, social, and cultural rights; and solidarity rights, including to a safe and healthy environment. The podcast invites critical perspectives and questions the future of rights in the twenty-first century. __________________________________________________ Music Carefree by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3476-carefreeLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Episodes
39 episodes
E38: The UN in the 21st Century: Challenges and Contributions with CUNY Graduate Center Presidential Prof. Emeritus Thomas G. Weiss
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E37: Discontent on the African Continent: Youth, Inequality, and Rural Radicalism with CUNY Baruch Prof. Zachariah Mampilly
This episode features Professor Zachariah Mampilly, Marxe Endowed Chair of International Affairs at the Marxe School of Public and International Affairs at CUNY’s Baruch College and member of the doctoral faculty of The CUNY Graduate Center's D...
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E36: "Power and Politics Lead, Rights Follow": Advancing Rights in the 21st Century with Columbia University’s Prof. Jack Snyder
This episode features Columbia University’s Professor Jack Snyder, Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Relations in the Department of Political Science and the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies. The discussion centers o...
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E35: Creating a “Beloved Community” in the School House: Centering Black Women Leaders and Girls for Just and Inclusive Education with CCNY’s Prof. Terri N. Watson
This episode focuses on challenges facing K-12 education, particularly at the intersection of racism and sexism in the US education system today. Dr. Watson—Associate Professor of Education Leadership, Provost Fellow, and inaugural Direct...
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E34: Genocide as “the Crime of Crimes” and Its Limitations with CCNY’s Prof. Dirk Moses
This episode grapples with the limitations of the legal definition of genocide in international law and its implications for international responses to mass civilian destruction. Prof. Dirk Moses—Anne and Bernard Spitzer Professor of Political ...
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E33: Reproductive Oppression: An Expanding “Appetite to Criminalize” with CUNY School of Law Prof. Cynthia Soohoo
This episode engages the theme of reproductive rights in the United States and beyond. Prof. Cynthia Soohoo—Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Human Rights and Gender Justice Clinic at the CUNY School of Law—illuminates the history of repr...
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E32: Medicine, Science, and Human Rights with Christian De Vos and Payal Shah of Physicians for Human Rights
This episode engages with a range of themes at the intersection of human rights and medicine with Christian De Vos, Director of Research and Investigations, and Payal Shah, Director of the Program on Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones, at Physic...
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E31: Russia’s War on Ukraine Explained: Motivations, Dynamics, and Consequences with CCNY’s Prof. Emeritus Rajan Menon
This episode explores the motivations for and the consequences of Russia’s full-blown invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. It features Dr. Rajan Menon, CCNY’s Anne and Bernard Spitzer Chair Emeritus in Political Science; Director of the Grand ...
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E30: CCNY's Hostile Terrain 94 Global Art Installation: Undocumented Migration and US Policy with CCNY Prof. Matthew Reilly and Students Catie Hernandez and Eloisa Martinez Jimenez
This episode features Matthew Reilly, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at The City College of New York, and CCNY students Catie Hernandez and Eloisa Martinez Jimenez. Prof. Reilly and his students discuss the Hostile Terrain 94 initiative, a...
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E29: Russia's War Against Ukraine with Human Rights Watch's Louis Charbonneau
This episode focuses on the first days of Russia's military aggression against Ukraine. Louis Charbonneau, UN Director at Human Rights Watch (HRW), offers insight into HRW's monitoring of violations of international humanitarian and human right...
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E28: “A New Age of Impunity and Indifference”: Torture, Refugees, and Conflict Zones with CVT President and CEO Simon Adams
This episode is devoted to examining the crime of torture. It features the President and CEO of the Center for Victims of Torture (CVT), Dr. Simon Adams. It delves into the erosion of international human rights and humanitarian law on a global ...
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E27: Eating NAFTA: Circulating Avocados, NYC Tacos, Criminalized Migrant Labor, and Chronic Disease in Mexico with Lehman Prof. Alyshia Gálvez
This episode examines the adverse human costs of neoliberal globalization, particularly the impacts of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on the lives of Mexicans and the food system. Drawing on her recently published work Eati...
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Episode 27
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E26: “A Crisis of Care,” the “She-cession,” and Gender Inequality in the United States with CCNY Prof. Kathlene McDonald
This episode focuses on the US care infrastructure and gender inequality. Dr. Kathlene McDonald—Associate Professor of Literature and Writing at CCNY's Division of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Center for Worker Education (CWE)—considers the...
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E25: Mental Health, War, Forced Migrants, and FGM/C with CCNY Prof. Adeyinka Akinsulure-Smith
This episode focuses on the mental health challenges faced by some of the most vulnerable populations: survivors of war, sexual violence, and torture as well as forced migrants, particularly children and women. Dr. Adeyinka Akinsulure-Smith, li...
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E24: The Right to Health in Comparative Perspective: the WHO, North-South Systems, and Transnational Interdependencies with Dr. Lorraine Frisina Doetter
This episode is devoted to examining the right to health and health care systems in comparative perspective with Dr. Lorraine Frisina Doetter, Political Scientist and Senior Lecturer in Public Health at the University of Bremen, Senior Consulta...
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E23: Contemporary Haiti in Historical and Global Perspective with Dr. Cécile Accilien
This episode engages the multifaceted human rights challenges faced by Haitians in the homeland and in the United States and beyond. It features Dr. Cécile Accilien, a professor and scholar of Haitian Studies and Board Member of the Haitian Stu...
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Episode 23
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E22: Gender Persecution: Women and LGBTIQ Persons in Armed Conflicts with CUNY Law's Prof. Lisa Davis
This episode features Lisa Davis, Associate Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Human Rights and Gender Justice (HRGJ) Clinic at the CUNY School of Law. Prof. Davis explains the particular vulnerabilities that women and LGBTIQ persons...
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E21: Indigenous Peoples in the Americas, Activism, and Film with CCNY Prof. Carlos Aguasaco and NMAI's Cindy Benitez
This episode focuses on the grave human rights challenges confronted by indigenous peoples throughout the Americas, activism, and film, and more specifically the Americas Film Festival of New York (TAFFNY). It features Carlos Aguasaco, Associat...
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E20: Refugees, Migrants, and Global Governance with UMaine Prof. Nicholas R. Micinski
This episode featuring Nicholas R. Micinski, Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at the University of Maine, focuses on the upsurge of forcibly displaced persons and migrants, gaps in rights protection...
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E19: International Justice, War, and “Failure by Design” with former ICC Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo
This episode is devoted to discussing the evolution of international criminal justice since 1945 with former founding Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Luis Moreno Ocampo. The conversation centers on the ICC’s developme...
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E18: Science, Health, and Antiracist Education and Activism with CCNY Prof. Kaliris Salas-Ramirez
This episode features Dr. Kaliris Salas-Ramirez, Assistant Medical Professor at the CUNY School of Medicine and faculty advisor for CCNY's White Coats for Black Lives chapter. Dr. Salas-Ramirez discusses her research on addiction and her effort...
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E17: The Holocaust, Refugees, Children, and "Choiceless Choices" with CUNY CHGCAH Director Debórah Dwork
April 2021 is a month with three genocide commemorations - Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah); the International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsis in Rwanda; and Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day. ...
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E16: Human Rights and the United Nations with HRW's Lou Charbonneau
This episode features Human Rights Watch's UN Director Louis Charbonneau. It focuses on the politics of human rights at the United Nations. It considers the domestic human rights records of both China and the United States, as well as the behav...
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E15: Female Fighters, Violence, and the UN with CCNY Prof. Nimmi Gowrinathan
This episode features Dr. Nimmi Gowrinathan, Founder and Director of the Politics of Sexual Violence Initiative, Visiting Research Professor at CCNY's Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, and Visiting Professor at Columbia Unive...
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E14: Asymmetrical Wars, Collateral Damage, and Technology with CCNY Prof. Bruce Cronin
This episode features Bruce Cronin, CCNY Professor of Political Science and Director of the Human Rights Minor. The discussion centers on Prof. Cronin's latest book publication, Bugsplat: The Politics of Collateral Damage in Western Armed C...
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