In the final episode of our mini series, our participants were invited to share some reflections on social justice battles they’ve participated in. Our guest leave us with some hopeful and enlightening reflections for us to ponder.

In episode two of our mini series, our participants were invited to engage in a podcast episode focused on the importance of funding residentials for the sector.  Our guests highlight the impact of being able to attend residentials and the importance of having a space to foster connection building and creativity.  This podcast series was made with staff from JustRight Scotland and funded by The Baring Foundation.

In this mini series, guests from our Barings Residential event held in Glasgow engaged with us to share their reflections on the question of 'Barriers'. How these barriers that our guests' clients and service users experience impact their access to their rights.  You will hear reflections from a combination of lawyers, activist and academics across the sector in the UK.  This podcast series was co-produced with staff from JustRight Scotland and made possible by funding from The Baring Residential. 

In this episode, we explore the barriers African migrants face in the UK workforce, particularly the disconnect between their educational qualifications and the limited opportunities available to them.

Today’s episode is part one of our insightful conversation with Satwat Rehman, CEO of One Parent Families Scotland (OPFS), a leading charity working with single-parent families in Scotland.

This episode features the kind of services the team is delivering with a focus on their current projects and campaigns, and their approach when taking part in public inquiries including Undercover Policing Inquiry.  Jean is also focusing on their Gypsy and Traveller Legal Advice project and he depicts the structural inequalities these communities are facing across the UK and England, through extensive data analysis.

Today, we talk with Jean Demars, Director of the Public Interest Law Centre (PILC) to learn more about their recent cases, upcoming initiatives, and their grassroots approach, where ’Without relationships with groups, we don’t exist,’ listen to our podcast!

Today’s episode is a part two of our special conversation with Kairos Women+, a community-led women’s space for all women and non-binary people across Renfrewshire and beyond.

Today’s episode is a part one of a special conversation with Kairos Women+, a community-led women’s space for all women and non-binary people across Renfrewshire and beyond. We talk about their collaborative, intersectional and innovative participatory approach.

This year, the theme is Dignity, Freedom and Justice for All.   We talk about the value of these principles and how they have inspired and still inspire movements for change for a more equal and inclusive world of benefit to everyone.  We have asked staff members, colleagues and partner organisations including Making Rights Real, HRCS and PILS to share what these principles mean to them and their work to protect human rights across UK.   We also interviewed our founders, Jen, Andy and Kirsty to discover more about the story beyond our organisation and what means putting human rights into law in Scotland.

Centre (SWRC), Nicola Mooney, Advocacy Worker, and Constance Trepanier, Legal Caseworker.  In this episode we highlight which kinds of resources the SWRC has produced and produces to support survivors of gender-based violence and how important it is to train solicitors, police officers, and support workers on how to have a trauma informed approach when liaising with victims/survivors.   We also speak about our dedicated weekly immigration advice surgery, staffed by solicitors from our Scottish Refugee & Migrant Centre in collaboration with the team at the SWRC, to provide a holistic service when survivors call for information.

Today’s episode is a special one, because we talked about the calls to action of the #16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence and how organisations, institutions and individuals play a key role in ending violence against women and girls.

This episode features our trainee solicitor Eilidh, who speaks about her experience as a trainee at JustRight Scotland through the Justice First Fellowship scheme delivered by The Legal Education Foundation.

This episode features the kind of services the team is delivering with a focus on their current projects and their holistic and trauma-informed approach.

Today we talk with Maria McCloskey, PILS Director, and Emma Cassidy, Senior Engagement Lead at PILS about what PILS is and what the team does, how the staff members take on new projects and develop them to help and support communities across Northern Ireland, how important strategic cases are as they impact not just one person but a number of people in our society and how the UK Government’s hostile environment policies are negatively affecting people and above all, children, in Northern Ireland.

In this latest episode - created and developed by the JustRight Scotland team, we are focusing on digital learning, how to set up personalised training and how transformative and impactful learning can be.

We talk with the team about their work, their current projects, their holistic and trauma-informed approach to help and support survivors of trafficking and exploitation.

Every year the Scottish Women’s Rights Centre (SWRC) welcomes students from the University of Strathclyde Law Clinic as interns.

This is part 3 of our Scotland’s Human Rights Bill series of the Our Rights Stories podcast created and developed by the JustRight Scotland team.

We are focusing on this topic as part of our Scottish campaign which aims to call for the right to an effective remedy – one that is accessible, affordable, timely and effective – to be included in the Bill as a substantive right, with a duty to comply.   That was omitted from the Consultation proposals.