Strength & Solidarity
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A podcast featuring the people and ideas that are driving -and disrupting -human rights around the world. You can learn more about the project at our website, www.strengthandsolidarity.org. We welcome your feedback and your suggestions. In particular, if you have a poem or text, a speech, or a piece of music that expresses something important about your own commitment to rights, please tell us about it at pod@strengthandsolidarity.org.
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60. Human Rights: Expanding our ambition
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Dec 10, 2025 |
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59. China: Staying the course
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Nov 20, 2025 |
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Best Of: North Korea: What future do Koreans want, and do they agree?
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Oct 02, 2025 |
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Best Of: The Coda #24: Seamus Heaney’s Casualty - on violence, complicity and freedom
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Sep 25, 2025 |
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Best Of: Iran: Building a movement for rights in exile
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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Best Of: The Coda #3: When African independence struck a chord with US activists
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Sep 11, 2025 |
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58. Tunisia: Queer courage as strategy
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Aug 28, 2025 |
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The Coda #46: Things are gonna be alright
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Aug 14, 2025 |
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57. Climate justice: the untapped potential of the over-60s
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Jul 31, 2025 |
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The Coda #45: Strength from stories of resistance
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Jul 10, 2025 |
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56. Burn-out: the downward spiral harming a whole field
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Jul 03, 2025 |
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The Coda #44: The mood-altering powers of Baroque music
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Jun 12, 2025 |
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55. Turkey: Watching US developments from Istanbul
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Jun 12, 2025 |
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54. Human Rights: The Symposium is ending – what did we learn?
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May 21, 2025 |
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53. Mexico: A new home for Central America’s exiles
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May 01, 2025 |
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The Coda #43: Missing a beloved Venezuelan mountain
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May 01, 2025 |
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52. Nigeria: What’s happening to the activists?
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Apr 10, 2025 |
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The Coda #42: How Fairuz’s songs pointed to a life defending rights
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Apr 09, 2025 |
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51. Iran: Building a movement for rights in exile
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Mar 19, 2025 |
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The Coda #41: Learning lessons in resilience from nature
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Mar 19, 2025 |
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50. US Aid freeze: Catastrophe or Opportunity?
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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49. Myanmar: What a decade of democracy meant for LGBTQ rights
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Jan 28, 2025 |
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The Coda #40: ‘Books are a freedom for me’
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Jan 27, 2025 |
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48. North Korea: What future do Koreans want, and do they agree?
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Dec 17, 2024 |
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The Coda #39: Soccer as a strategy for cooling passions
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Dec 17, 2024 |
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47. Gaza: Is the global human rights system at risk?
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Nov 15, 2024 |
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Asking a favor...
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Oct 11, 2024 |
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Best Of: 37. Uganda: Fighting to turn back a law – and anti-LGBT hatred
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Sep 19, 2024 |
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Best Of: UDHR@75: Can our human rights system ever fulfill its promise?
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Aug 29, 2024 |
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Best Of: USA: A Jewish group’s 30-year solidarity with Palestine
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Aug 08, 2024 |
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46. Kenya: The Birth and Resilience of a Social Movement
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Jul 04, 2024 |
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The Coda #38: How storytelling rewrote resistance in Burma
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Jul 04, 2024 |
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45. South-East Asia: When does a hashtag become a movement?
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May 20, 2024 |
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The Coda #37: The human rights leader who writes TV scripts
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May 20, 2024 |
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44. Colombia: The strategy that decriminalized abortion
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Apr 26, 2024 |
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The Coda #36: The library that became a home for black Berlin
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Apr 26, 2024 |
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43. South Africa: Organizing – a superpower for the landless
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Apr 05, 2024 |
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The Coda #35: "What I regretted most were my silences"
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Apr 05, 2024 |
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42. US: The promise – and the challenge – of a coalition for rights
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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The Coda #34: Learn to stop, if you want to keep going
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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41. UK: When the police are the harm not the cure
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Feb 09, 2024 |
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The Coda #33: Letting go of a cherished illusion
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Feb 09, 2024 |
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40. USA: A Jewish group’s 30-year solidarity with Palestine
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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The Coda #32: Making art to mend what is broken
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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39. UDHR@75: Can our human rights system ever fulfil its promise?
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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The Coda #31: When activism falls short, try a poem
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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38. Bahrain: The power of direct action – and the cost
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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37. Uganda: Fighting to turn back a law – and anti-LGBT hatred
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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The Coda #30: The film inspiring a new generation of disability activists
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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Best of: Palestine: Refusing to be a second-class citizen
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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Best of: When does the language of rights have power?
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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Best of: Has the Human Rights framework outlived its purpose?
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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Best of: Mexico: In search of trust – beyond privilege and exclusion
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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Best of: Nigeria: Driving police reform through mass protest
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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Best of: Argentina: A stunning victory for woman
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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36. Zimbabwe: You can’t keep a good movement down
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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The Coda #29: ‘Filled with music, filled with justice’
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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35. Disability Rights: Activism as a vital ingredient for victories
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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34. Hungary: Learning useful lessons from your enemies
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May 11, 2023 |
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The Coda #28: ‘Stop burning this country to the ground’
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May 11, 2023 |
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33. Strategy: The pain of charting a new course– and the gain
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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The Coda #27: ‘When we go to the Defense Ministry, we start with poetry’
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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32. South Africa: The challenge of offering solidarity without strings
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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The Coda #26: ‘These young artistes are fearless!’
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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31. Women’s Rights: Frontlines in the global feminist movement
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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In Memoriam: Swazi human rights defender, Thulani Maseko
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Feb 17, 2023 |
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30. Egypt: The price of defeat, the power of conviction
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Feb 02, 2023 |
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The Coda #25: The liberating power of an Audre Lorde metaphor
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Feb 02, 2023 |
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29. Human Rights: A tension at the heart of the UN
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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The Coda #24: Seamus Heaney’s Casualty - on violence, complicity and freedom
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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28. Guatemala: The digital spark that that ignited a protest movement
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Dec 22, 2022 |
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The Coda #23: We may fall but we keep climbing
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Dec 22, 2022 |
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27. Palestine: Refusing to be a second-class citizen
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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The Coda #22: When dancing Salsa is good for human rights
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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Our Next Season
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Nov 30, 2022 |
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26. Disability rights: How ‘nothing about us without us” powered a global treaty
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Jul 19, 2022 |
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25. Europe: Building solidarity with Migrants and Refugees
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Jun 22, 2022 |
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The Coda #21: Waywardness –a way to defy oppression
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Jun 22, 2022 |
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24. Afghanistan: can the Taliban tame the hunger for rights?
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Jun 07, 2022 |
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The Coda #20: Staying hopeful in dark times
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Jun 07, 2022 |
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23. Egypt: When professionalizing your organization makes you safer
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May 12, 2022 |
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22, Part 2. A high stakes struggle to win rights and justice for Libya
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Apr 25, 2022 |
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22, Part 1. A high stakes struggle to win rights and justice for Libya
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Apr 21, 2022 |
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The Coda #19: Keeping faith with your country -from exile
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Apr 21, 2022 |
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21. Myanmar’s citizens battle military rule - alone
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Mar 31, 2022 |
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The Coda #18: Valuing friction in the work of advancing rights
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Mar 31, 2022 |
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20. Will Russia be held accountable for its war on Ukraine?
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Mar 19, 2022 |
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19. Social movement or NGO? Can it be both?
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Mar 01, 2022 |
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The Coda #17: Real activism happens IRL
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Mar 01, 2022 |
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18. An epic struggle against military rule in Sudan
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Feb 08, 2022 |
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The Coda #16: Stop scrolling and read!
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Feb 08, 2022 |
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17. Aim high! A Victory for New York’s Undocumented Workers
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Jan 20, 2022 |
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The Coda #15: Being Queer in Malaysia: 'A little bit out but - still not out'
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Jan 20, 2022 |
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Our New Season
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Jan 18, 2022 |
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16. Solidarity as a tool for defending Palestinian rights
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Sep 16, 2021 |
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The Coda #14: ‘Stretching the body instead of the mind’ -in the ocean
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Aug 26, 2021 |
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15. Pushing back against xenophobia in South Korea
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Aug 26, 2021 |
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14. Protecting the mental health of human rights workers
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Aug 12, 2021 |
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The Coda #13: When a local bar is the heart of community and creativity
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Aug 12, 2021 |
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13. Defending Rights in India Amid Covid and Repression
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Jul 29, 2021 |
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12. Building activist movements for the long haul
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Jul 15, 2021 |
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The Coda #12: Getting into good trouble in Zimbabwe
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Jul 15, 2021 |
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11. What’s so great about a feminist manager?
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Jun 30, 2021 |
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The Coda #11: Being the light of the world and the salt of the earth
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Jun 30, 2021 |
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10. Mexico: In search of trust – beyond privilege and exclusion
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Jun 17, 2021 |
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The Coda #10: A lesson in courage from a Salvadoran Archbishop
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Jun 17, 2021 |
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9. Nigeria: Driving police reform through mass protest
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Jun 03, 2021 |
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The Coda #9: How poetry fueled Sudan’s revolution
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Jun 03, 2021 |
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Season Two Preview
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Jun 01, 2021 |
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The Coda #8: Bangladesh’s national poet Nazrul inspires passion long after his demise
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Mar 31, 2021 |
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8. When does the language of rights have power?
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Mar 30, 2021 |
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The Coda #7: A veteran activist in Israel on a poem she has come to cherish
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Mar 19, 2021 |
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7. What do human rights leaders need?
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Mar 19, 2021 |
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The Coda #6: How a 1970 samba promised Brazilians a future beyond dictatorship
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Mar 04, 2021 |
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6. Argentina: A stunning victory for women
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Mar 03, 2021 |
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The Coda #5: A Mexican feminist who spoke women’s truth to men’s power
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Feb 12, 2021 |
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5. Hong Kong: Winning support abroad for the struggle at home
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Feb 11, 2021 |
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The Coda #4: Hope on the wing in spite of terror
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Jan 29, 2021 |
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4. China: Securing local funds for rights
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Jan 28, 2021 |
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The Coda #3: When African independence struck a chord with US activists
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Jan 16, 2021 |
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3. Has the Human Rights framework outlived its purpose?
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Jan 15, 2021 |
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The Coda #2: ‘Don’t believe anything a jailer tells you’
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Jan 14, 2021 |
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2. South Africa: Rebuilding a movement’s culture after crisis
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Jan 13, 2021 |
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The Coda #1 : For those with good intentions - a warning about hubris
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Jan 12, 2021 |
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1. Afghanistan: Daring to believe in human rights
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Jan 11, 2021 |
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Introducing Strength and Solidarity
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Jan 05, 2021 |