Women, Peace & Rights
Podcast is produced by Women's Regional Network, to amplify the voices of conflict-affected women in order to address the interlinked issues of peace and justice, governance and security in South Asia and East Africa.
Episodes
Episode No. 11
Recording: June 21, 2022
Host: Rita Manchanda, Women's Regional Network (WRN) Board Member.
Guest: Dr. Habiba Sarabi, Member of Afghan Peace Negotiation Team, former Deputy Chair High Peace Council and former Bamyan Governor
Dr Habiba Sarabi as a refugee today in Germany shares with Rita about the fading rights of the displaced people of Afghanistan.
- The 3rd largest group of th...
Episode No. 10
Recording: June 8, 2022
Host: Amalini De Sayrah, a writer, journalist and editor | Sri Lanka
Guest: Radhika Coomaraswamy, former United Nations Under Secretary General and
the Special Representative on Children and Armed Conflict | Sri Lanka
Amalini discusses with Radhika about the Movement to End Voilence Against Women: Progress, Changes & Challenges.
1. Gender-based violen...
Conversation date: 23 May 2022
Host: Rukhshanda Naz, Ombudsperson, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
Guest: Justice(Rtd) Nasira Iqbal, Former Justice of the Lahore High Court, Pakistan
Justice Nasira, with her profound experience in the judiciary of Pakistan, talks about how women can break the glass ceiling and join the much needed legal professions in the country.
The conversation navigates through below discussi...
Date: 11 April 2022
Host: Rita Manchanda, Women's Regional Network (WRN) Board Member.
Guest: Nimalka Fernando, Lawyer, President of International Movement against All Forms of Discrimination (IMADR), Former Commissioner of the Office of Missing Persons, Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka’s full-blown financial meltdown has sparked a political crisis that has brought thousands of women and men to the streets demandin...
Date: 7 April 2022
Host: Rukhshanda Naz, Ombudsperson, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
Guest: Bushra Gohar, Former Member of Parliament, Pakistan
In a country that experienced military rule and democratic government, women struggle to have a significant role in Politics. Bushra Gohar, a Former Member of Parliament - Pakistan, lays out her experience, efforts, challenges and the possibilities for Women in Politics...
Date: 1 March 2022
Host: Judge Najla Ayoubi, Chief of Coalition & Global Programs at Every Woman Treaty.
Guest: Heather Barr, Associate Director, Women's Rights Division, Human Rights Watch in Pakistan.
Heather talks to Najla Ayoubi about the human rights situation in Afghanistan and its impact on women and girls.
1. As per the Human Rights Watch 753-page report 2022 released in January, the polit...
Date: 17 February 2022
Host: Akanksha Khullar
Guest: Zarqa Yafatali
So as we have seen that after seizing power in Afghanistan on 15 August 2021, Taliban leaders made statements in which they claimed that their new regime would protect women's rights in the country. However, given the extensive history of the group’s discriminatory outlook towards women combined with the group’s newly imposed diktat and action...
Date: 3 December 2021
Host: Ilana Landsberg-Lewis
Guest: Ruth Ojiambo Ochieng
Ilana Lansburg-Lewis is in conversation with a lifelong activist and expert, Ruth Ojiambo Ochieng from Uganda, offering some feminist reflections on women's rights and peace activism.
Guest: Betty Reardon, Founder of Peace Education Program at Teachers College, Columbia University
Host: Swarna Rajagopalan, Founding member of Women’s Regional Network.
Professor Reardon's pioneering work in peace, Education and Human Rights has laid the foundation for a new cross disciplinary integration of peace education and international human rights, from a gender global perspective, one of the first to make clear...
Guest: Fionnuala D. Ní Aoláin (Ireland), United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Counter-Terrorism.
Host: Rita Manchanda, Women's Regional Network (WRN) Board Member.
"If the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda doesn't mean something now it's worthless!” says Ní Aoláin to governments and women’s networks on 20 years of commodification and misuse of Afghan women’s voices.
The first episode of the Women, Peace & Rights Podcast.
Host: Rita Manchanda, Women's Regional Network (WRN) Board Member.
Guest: Mary Lawlor, United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders.
1. Will the death of Fr Stan Swamy, a Jesuit priest in India be treated as a death in custody?
2. Will Facebook and other social media platforms provide safe spaces for Women Human Right...
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