Ranked #1
Organ Harvesting and Trafficking of Chinese Minorities
Organ Harvesting and Trafficking of Chinese Minorities
Until 2015, China harvested organs from prisoners on death row. The State has adopted an official policy that all organs... Read more
20 Oct 2019
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13mins
Ranked #2
Can Human Rights Solve the Palestinian Question? (With Dr Ruba Salih & Odette Murray)
Can Human Rights Solve the Palestinian Question? (With Dr Ruba Salih & Odette Murray)
In this episode, we talk about occupation, refugee rights, and the status of Palestine. Are there systematic ways to rem... Read more
3 Feb 2018
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1hr 2mins
Ranked #3
Bolsonaro and #NotHim: Something Old or Something New?
Bolsonaro and #NotHim: Something Old or Something New?
Everyone's asking, "How did he win? What does this mean for Brazil's future?" But Jair Bolsonaro's victory in the Octobe... Read more
24 Nov 2018
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54mins
Ranked #4
Is Human Rights a Fable? (with Professor Samuel Moyn)
Is Human Rights a Fable? (with Professor Samuel Moyn)
Is Human Rights just a fable? To uncover this question, we venture down 'history' lane with Professor Samuel Moyn. What’... Read more
26 Mar 2018
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53mins
Ranked #5
Are Human Rights Always “Good”? Or Are They Weaponized? (with Chase Madar)
Are Human Rights Always “Good”? Or Are They Weaponized? (with Chase Madar)
In this episode, we discuss the weaponisation of human rights, i.e. are human rights always "good"; or are they at times... Read more
9 Dec 2017
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1hr 1min
Ranked #6
Bodies and Borders: Migration in the Digital Age
Bodies and Borders: Migration in the Digital Age
Technology is redefining the experiences of refugees and asylum seekers in this globalised world, whether it is artifici... Read more
30 Sep 2019
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35mins
Ranked #7
Change in the Niger Delta: Oil Extraction, Greased Palms, and Petro-Capitalism
Change in the Niger Delta: Oil Extraction, Greased Palms, and Petro-Capitalism
This week’s episode explores how the petroleum industry in the Niger Delta takes place at the intersection of contentiou... Read more
6 May 2019
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41mins
Ranked #8
Welcome to Season 4
Welcome to Season 4
In the first episode of this seasons' Declarations podcasts, the new team of panellists sets the stage for a discussion ... Read more
30 Oct 2019
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34mins
Ranked #9
What Can Maps, Twitter, and the Crowd do for Human Rights? (with Sam Dubberley)
What Can Maps, Twitter, and the Crowd do for Human Rights? (with Sam Dubberley)
In this episode we will be talking about the use of mapping and social media technologies to conduct human rights work, ... Read more
11 Mar 2019
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50mins
Ranked #10
A Right to Sleep: Homelessness and Temporary Housing
A Right to Sleep: Homelessness and Temporary Housing
The documentary “Cities of Sleep” explores the world of insurgent sleeper communities, as well as the infamous 'sleep ma... Read more
21 Jan 2019
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50mins
Ranked #11
What is the 'Copenhagen Declaration'?(with Prof. Başak Çalı)
What is the 'Copenhagen Declaration'?(with Prof. Başak Çalı)
The Copenhagen Declaration - adopted April this year - unveiled tensions about the relationship between democracy and hu... Read more
7 Jul 2018
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37mins
Ranked #12
PROFILE: Dr Alexa Koenig, Berkeley Human Rights Center
PROFILE: Dr Alexa Koenig, Berkeley Human Rights Center
Declarations went to Washington DC earlier this year to talk to researchers and practitioners who are dealing with disin... Read more
15 Jul 2018
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36mins
Ranked #13
Do Borders Hide or Reveal Rights? (With Dr Monica Figueroa)
Do Borders Hide or Reveal Rights? (With Dr Monica Figueroa)
In this episode, we talk about race, racism, borders, and human rights. What kinds of borders are erected around the rig... Read more
21 Mar 2018
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55mins
Ranked #14
Kashmir: Caught in the Crossfire
Kashmir: Caught in the Crossfire
In this episode we discuss the current human rights infringements taking place in the semi-autonomous state of Kashmir. ... Read more
22 Nov 2019
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55mins
Ranked #15
Justice in Transition: Reclaiming Rights Within and Without States?
Justice in Transition: Reclaiming Rights Within and Without States?
In this special episode, we sat down with Jackson Odong of the Refugee Law Project, and Shama Ams from the Centre of Dev... Read more
6 Oct 2018
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1hr 30mins
Ranked #16
External Borders, Internal Politics: What do Democracies owe Refugees? (With Lord Smith of Finsbury)
External Borders, Internal Politics: What do Democracies owe Refugees? (With Lord Smith of Finsbury)
In this episode we talked about external borders and internal politics, trying to get to grips with what democracies owe... Read more
16 Aug 2018
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39mins
Ranked #17
Investigating Raqqa: Amnesty’s inquiry into the coalition’s military campaign (Special Episode)
Investigating Raqqa: Amnesty’s inquiry into the coalition’s military campaign (Special Episode)
From June to October 2017, the US-led Coalition launched an aggressive and highly destructive military campaign in Raqqa... Read more
7 Nov 2019
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25mins
Ranked #18
Weaponizing Walls: Trump, the Border, and Its Scars (with Dr. Ieva Jusionyte)
Weaponizing Walls: Trump, the Border, and Its Scars (with Dr. Ieva Jusionyte)
In this episode we discuss how the infrastructure of the US-Mexico border wall has become a weapon in and of itself. Sin... Read more
12 Sep 2019
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49mins
Ranked #19
Repeal the 8th: Developing a Rights Framework for Abortion?
Repeal the 8th: Developing a Rights Framework for Abortion?
In this episode, we are joined by Helen Jennings and Caitlin de Jode, who are organising a conference on ‘The Developmen... Read more
22 May 2018
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59mins
Ranked #20
Season 3: Memory, Community, Futures
Season 3: Memory, Community, Futures
Welcome to Season 3 of Declarations. This episode introduces our brand new team of regular panelists, as well as this ye... Read more
19 Nov 2018
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11mins