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Callie Ward and Joe Wager discuss the situation at the US-Mexico border with Julia Neusner, a Legal Fellow in Refugee Protection at Human Rights First. Julia, a Stanford alumna who has organized several trips to the US-Mexico border with Stanford students, reports on her recent experiences there and contextualizes immigration policy such as Title 42 within a larger history of the border.
Show Notes
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Callie Ward and Joe Wager sit down with Diana Guzmán Rodríguez to discuss the 2016 Colombian Final Peace Agreement. Diana contextualizes the situation, discusses the multiple facets of the agreement, and lays out challenges to its implementation. As a massively complex negotiation, the Agreement encompasses myriad human-rights issues and demands that we understand it within a global context.
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Kyra Jasper sits down with Melissa Diamond to talk about the work of her organization, A Global Voice for Autism, and challenges humanitarian organizations face in providing vulnerable communities with ethical and human-centered assistance.
Show Notes
Melissa’s website (with book information): www.melissajdiamond.com
A Global Voice for Autism website: www.aglobalvoiceforautism.org
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In this episode, Kyra Jasper sits down with Reylon Yount, an award-winning yangqin player, to discuss his journey pursuing music professionally and how the arts and arts education can serve as a tool for building sustainable communities, bridging cultural divides, and empowering social movements.
Show Notes
Reylon’s website: https://reylon.co/
Reylon’s EP Album, “Sun 陽”: https://reylon.bandcamp.com/album/sun
Silkroad Ensemble 2016: https://youtu.be/O8EMo-_6ynI
Reylon’s covers on yangqin: https://www.youtube.com/user/CAMCfan
Tangram collective website: https://tangramsound.com
Rituals and Resonances: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffEUmLMfvOQ
Tangram Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCA_2uskLv9eTCzSZtdcskRQ
Intro Music: Excerpt of "Thunder After the Darkness" from Sun 陽 by Raylon Yount
Outro Music: Excerpt of "Strange" by Raylon Yount
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Miriam Wallstrom speaks with Sacramento City Councilmember Katie Valenzuela to discuss the health impacts of living near oil wells in California and the legislative attempts to create setbacks between oil wells and communities.
Show Notes
Follow the Center for Race, Poverty, and the Environment to keep up to date on their efforts in Kern County: https://linktr.ee/crpe_ej
More information on AB 345: https://grist.org/politics/an-oil-well-right-next-to-your-house-the-california-senate-says-thats-ok/
Oil well tracker: https://www.fractracker.org/2020/04/california-setback-analysis-summary/
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Kyra Jasper sits down with Dr. Becca Farnum from Syracuse University London to discuss Environmental Racism, Justice, and Peacebuilding in the United States and the Middle East/North Africa.
Show Notes
“Climates of Resistance” Community Audit Course Website: https://sites.google.com/view/climates-of-resistance/about
Becca’s Personal Website: http://www.rebeccalfarnum.com/
EcoPeace: https://ecopeaceme.org/
Environmental Voluntary Foundation/Kuwait Dive Team: book about them available here: http://www.rebeccalfarnum.com/books/
Media Association for Peace (Lebanon): http://maplebanon.org/
Garbage Crisis in Lebanon: https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/06/09/lebanon-huge-cost-inaction-trash-crisis
Beirut bombing environmental dangers: https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/10/22/lebanon-flawed-domestic-blast-investigation
Dar Si Hamad: http://darsihmad.org/
Vodka Fog Farm in Bay Area: https://hangarone.com/fogpoint-vodka/
Becca’s forthcoming book: https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/spaces-and-practices-of-justice
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Kyra Jasper talks with Stanford alumna and Rhodes Scholar Anat Peled on the ongoing protests in Israel, including the reasons both the younger and older generations are taking to the streets, how these protests differ from past protests, and what these protests foreshadow about Israel's future.
Show Notes
Note: this podcast was recorded on December 29, 2020. Since the time of the recording, there have been several developments related to Prime Minister Netanyahu’s trial; most pertinently, his trial for corruption charges was delayed until February 8 because of the imposition of a third national COVID-19 lockdown, after an announcement in early January that the trial would be suspended “indefinitely.” More information can be found here: https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/pm-netanyahus-hearing-rescheduled-for-february-8-655006, https://www.timesofisrael.com/court-delays-netanyahus-2nd-appearance-in-court-for-his-trial-citing-lockdown/, and https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-court-postpones-next-hearing-in-netanyahu-s-corruption-trial-citing-covid-lockdown-1.9434724
Article written by Anat Peled on protests in 2019: https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-if-netanyahu-wins-turn-out-the-lights-opposing-israel-s-crime-minister-1.7842592
Article on the protestors’ economic reasons for their discontent: https://www.timesofisrael.com/despite-worst-economy-in-years-anti-netanyahu-protests-struggle-to-grip-nation/
Article on the diverse coalition of protesters: https://www.timesofisrael.com/at-anti-netanyahu-protests-no-clear-leaders-and-thats-how-activists-like-it/
Behind the signs
FB: https://www.facebook.com/israelbehindthesigns
Instagram: @behind.the.signs
Israel and COVID-19:
https://www.voanews.com/episode/israel-leads-world-vaccines-capita-4531761
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Ali Cohen sits down with Stanford Human Rights Law Professor, Beth Van Schaack, to discuss the origins of the international criminal court, the United States' relationship with it, and what the future holds.
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Kyra Jasper talks to Stanford alumni Carson Smith, Ibrahim Bharmal and Alina Utrata about rejection, the paths not taken, opportunities that did and did not work out for them, and what it means to craft a life with human rights as a guiding principle. The views reflected in this podcast do not necessarily represent the views of the Stanford Center for Human Rights and International Justice.
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In this episode of the Rights Pod, Human Rights student Kyra Jasper sits down with Veni Deribeev and Delaney Hurley to discuss the protests that have flooded the streets of Sofia, Bulgaria for the past three months, including how the protests started, instances of police violence, and what the future might hold.
Show Notes
Articles for further reading:
Bulgaria — and Borissov — have passed the point of no return
Riot police and protesters clash in Bulgaria as corruption crisis deepens
Thousands protest against Bulgarian government, scuffle with police
If you want to learn more about supporting Pravosadie Za Vseki, you can check out their Facebook page or their Paypal.
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Alisha Zhao takes the host seat to interview Alina Utrata and Christina Schiciano, two of the three members of the first human rights minor cohort in the final episode of Notes from Alumni.
Center for Human Rights at Stanford
Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies (CREEES)
Hamid and Christina Moghadam Program in Iranian Studies
HUMRTS 103: Transitional Justice, Human Rights, and International Criminal Tribunals
ENGLISH 91: Creative Nonfiction
Counseling and Psychological Services at Stanford - CAPS
MA in Conflict Transformation and Social Justice at Queen’s University Belfast
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Alina Utrata sits down with Daniel Mattes, Stanford class of 2012, to discuss his life after Stanford in Notes from Alumni.
Center for Human Rights at Stanford
Human Rights Internship in Phnom Penh
HUMRTS 103: Transitional Justice, Human Rights, and International Criminal Tribunals
MSc in Global Politics and Global Civil Society at the London School of Economics
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On June 2nd, 2020, Stanford Human Rights Student Lauryn Johnson sat down with Nicole Baran, an academic and advocate in the field of gender studies, to discuss how COVID-19 is affecting womxn. They focus on the economic consequences of the pandemic, the idea of intersectionality, and how relationship abuse is manifesting. The views reflected in this podcast do not necessarily represent the view of the Center for Human Rights and International Justice at Stanford University.
Nicole Baran is the founding Executive Director of the Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation, an organization focused on eliminating obstacles facing marginalized populations in order to reach gender and racial equity. She is also the founder and Executive Director of the nonprofit the Center for Relationship Abuse Awareness and Action. Nicole holds a Bachelors and Masters in English from Stanford and a Masters in Social Work, and she lectured in the Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Department at Stanford for 13 years. You can visit Nicole’s bio here: https://baskinfoundation.org/about-the-foundation/board-of-directors/nicole-baran/
Further reading on how womxn are affected by the pandemic:
“The Coronavirus Is a Disaster for Feminism”- https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2020/03/feminism-womens-rights-coronavirus-covid19/608302/
“Coronavirus: Will women have to work harder after the pandemic?”- https://www.bbc.com/news/business-53363253
“How coronavirus could do real, long-term damage to women’s careers”- https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/14/how-coronavirus-could-do-long-term-damage-to-womens-careers.html
“The coronavirus backlash: how the pandemic is destroying women's rights”- https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/jun/23/the-coronavirus-backlash-how-the-pandemic-is-destroying-womens-rights
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Alina Utrata sits down with two members of the human rights class of 2018 Alexis Kallen and Julian Bava to discuss their life after Stanford in Notes from Alumni. The views represented in this podcast do not necessarily reflect the views of the Center for Human Rights and International Justice at Stanford.
Center for Human Rights at Stanford
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Stanford human rights student Nuzhah Tarsoo was born and grew up in Mauritius. For this episode, she speaks to women in Mauritius and Dr. Roshni Mooneeram, an honorary professor at the University of Nottingham, about their experience and expertise with gender discrimination in her home country. The opinions reflected in this podcast do not necessarily represent the views of the Center for Human Rights and International Justice at Stanford.
Show notes:
Real feminism from bra burning to bridge building - Prof Roshni Mooneeram's TED Talk
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Human rights student Kyra Jasper sits down with experts Arsil and Azhe from the Indonesian Institute for an Independent Judiciary, or LEiP, who discuss their experiences and challenges in their work in Indonesia. LEiP is a leading NGO in judicial reform in Indonesia and one of the Center from Human Rights and International Justice's partners in the region. The views reflected in this podcast do not necessarily represent the views of the Center for Human Rights and International Justice.
Show Notes
LeIP's website: https://leip.or.id/
A Jakarta Post article about Indonesia's overcrowded prisons: https://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2020/04/07/activists-experts-caution-against-slapdash-reform-to-tackle-prison-overcrowding.html
Blasphemy Law Interpretation project: https://humanrights.stanford.edu/publications/interpretations-article-156a-indonesian-criminal-code-blasphemy-and-religious
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The Masterplan.
Alina Utrata sits down with two members of the human rights class of 2019 and 2018, Keith Nobbs and Emma Pair, to discuss their life after Stanford in Notes from Alumni. The views reflected in this podcast do not necessarily reflect the views of the Stanford Center for Human Rights.
Mentioned in this podcast:
Center for Human Rights at Stanford
ETHICSOC 171, PHIL 171, POLISCI 103: Justice
ANTHRO 186: Culture and Madness: Anthropological and Psychiatric Approaches to Mental Illness engineering for good
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Human Rights students Alisha Zhao and Chloe Stoddard sit down with Dr Adam Kochanski, a post-doctoral fellow at McGill University’s Centre for International Peace and Security Studies and a Research Fellow at the Center for Human Rights at Stanford University. Alisha and Chloe ask Adam about his recent article in the San Francisco Chronicle about whether a truth and reconciliation commission could work to address the legacy of racial injustice and oppression in the United States, along with Adam's other research about transitional justice internationally. The views reflected in this podcast do not necessarily reflect the views of the Stanford Center for Human Rights.
Show notes:
How a Truth and Reconciliation Commission could work in the US - The San Francisco Chronicle
Mandating Truth: Patterns and Trends in Truth Commission Design - Human Rights Review
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Alina Utrata and Shikha Srinivas tackle the most critical issues regarding human rights in the wizarding world of Harry Potter. Does the use of dementors in Azkaban prison constitute torture? Is the Daily Prophet really committed to free speech? And do wizards hold free and fair elections? The views reflected in this podcast do not necessarily represent the views of the Stanford Center for Human Rights.
Daniel Radcliffe responds to JK Rowling's tweets. https://www.thetrevorproject.org/2020/06/08/daniel-radcliffe-responds-to-j-k-rowlings-tweets-on-gender-identity/
Two transgender activists are getting a monument in New York. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/29/arts/transgender-monument-stonewall.html
For more reading on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, check out the below sources. If you are a Stanford student, you can also sign up for the Human Rights minor gateway course HUMRTS 101: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Human Rights Theory and Practice, offered in Winter Quarter.
James Nickel, "Human Rights," Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Available online at https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rights-human/
Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Available online at https://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/
Michael Freeman, Human Rights: An Interdisciplinary Approach (3rd edition), Polity Press (2017).
Paul Gordon Lauren, The Evolution of International Human Rights: Visions Seen, University of Pennsylvania Press (2001).
Eleanor Roosevelt’s Fight for Human Rights (UN TV-5:05 min). Available online at http://webtv.un.org/watch/eleanor-roosevelt%E2%80%99s-fight-for-human-rights/5992910444001
The Women Who Shaped the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UN TV-2:17 min). Available online at http://webtv.un.org/watch/the-women-who-shaped-the-universal-declaration-of-human-rights/5976415965001/?term=
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