RightsUp
Episodes
The Right to Early Childhood Care and Education - Episode 1
15 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
International human rights law should protect and promote every individual’s human rights. But the reality is that international covenants on human ...
Rights In Crisis - Rethinking Cash Transfers, Care Work, and Justice
03 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
‘Rights in Crisis’, is a new RightsUp series from the Oxford Human Rights Hub in collaboration with the Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Develo...
Dame Laura Cox KC on sex equality in the UK, and at the Bar of England of Wales - Part 2
25 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In the second episode of this two-part series, Justin Winchester speaks to Dame Laura Cox KC — a Justice of the England and Wales High Court between...
Dame Laura Cox KC on sex equality in the UK, and at the Bar of England of Wales - Part 2
18 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In the first episode of this two-part series, Justin Winchester speaks to Dame Laura Cox KC — a Justice of the England and Wales High Court between ...
Rights in Crisis - The Death Penalty
11 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
‘Rights in Crisis’, is a new RightsUp series from the Oxford Human Rights Hub in collaboration with the Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Develo...
The Status of the Girl Child under International Law
02 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Frances Hand talks to Dr Clara Chapdelaine Feliciati, Lawyer and Associate Professor of Law at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University ab...
Sexual Harassment and the Law in Africa
26 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Almas Shaikh talks with Dr Anthony Ubani and Dr Wycliffe Nyachoti Otiso discussing the book 'Sexual Harassment and the Law in Africa'...
Rights in Crisis - Indian Gig Economy and Worker Rights
19 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
'Rights in Crisis', is a new RightsUp series from the Oxford Human Rights Hub in collaboration with the Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Developmen...
Melanie Field on the UK Supreme Court judgment For Women Scotland
14 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Vox pops on key human rights issues with human rights experts. (https://ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/) RightsUp is brought to you by the Oxford Human Rights Hub...
Feminist Frontiers in Climate Justice - Creating Climate Justice: Gender Equality for a More Just World
10 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this two-part podcast series, we are exploring why efforts to mitigate climate change need to be aware of women’s equality and why efforts to ach...
Feminist Frontiers in Climate Justice - Climate Injustice: A Gendered Global Crisis
14 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this two-part podcast series, we are exploring why efforts to mitigate climate change need to be aware of women’s equality and why efforts to ach...
The Dangerous Road from Gender Backlash to Gender Apartheid
17 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Meghan Campbell talks with Dorothy Estrada-Tanck, Chairperson of the UN Working Group on discrimination against women and girls, abo...
Women in Constitutions - The South African Constitution with Dhaya Pillay
12 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Virtually all constitutions guarantee women's right to equality, yet, there is a rise in backlash against legal, political, economic, social and cultu...
Women in Constitutions - The Canadian Constitution with Jennifer Koshan
06 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Virtually all constitutions guarantee women's right to equality, yet, there is a rise in backlash against legal, political, economic, social and cultu...
Women in Constitutions - The Indian Constitution with Aparna Chandra
30 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Virtually all constitutions guarantee women's right to equality, yet, there is a rise in backlash against legal, political, economic, social and cultu...
Women in Constitutions - The US Constitution with Julie Suk
30 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Virtually all constitutions guarantee women's right to equality, yet, there is a rise in backlash against legal, political, economic, social and cultu...
Rebuilding Ukraine for All: Inclusive Recovery for a Resilient Ukraine - Just Energy Transition
29 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is the final episode in a four part series on the project "Rebuilding Ukraine For All: Inclusive Recovery for a Resilient Ukraine," led by Profes...
Rebuilding Ukraine for All: Inclusive Recovery for a Resilient Ukraine - Inclusive Economic Recovery
22 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is the third episode in a four part series on the project "Rebuilding Ukraine For All: Inclusive Recovery for a Resilient Ukraine," led by Profes...
Rebuilding Ukraine for All: Inclusive Recovery for a Resilient Ukraine - Gender-Responsive Recovery
15 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is the second episode in a four part series on the project "Rebuilding Ukraine For All: Inclusive Recovery for a Resilient Ukraine," led by Profe...
Rebuilding Ukraine for All: Inclusive Recovery for a Resilient Ukraine - Towards Green Recovery
08 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is the first episode in a four part series on the project "Rebuilding Ukraine For All: Inclusive Recovery for a Resilient Ukraine," led by Profes...
Addressing Gender-based Violence in Supply Chains - Judy Fudge on the Dindigul Agreement
15 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In today's episode we speak to Judy fudge, professor in Labor Studies at McMaster University. She is published widely in employment and labor law, fem...
Eradicating Poverty Beyond Growth with Olivier De Schutter
03 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In today's episode, we'll be talking to Olivier De Schutter, a Belgian legal scholar specialising in economic and social rights. Mr De Schutter was ap...
The Role of The World Bank in Urban Resettlement in India
12 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this special episode guest interviewer, Judy Fudge, a professor in labour studies at McMaster University, interviews Gayatri Krishna, a doctoral st...
Discrimination Law - Part 3
27 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we are exploring some of the key themes in Professor Sandra Fredman’s monograph, Discrimination Law – the new, third edition of w...
Discrimination Law - Part 2
15 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we are exploring some of the key themes in Professor Sandra Fredman’s monograph, Discrimination Law – the new, third edition of w...
Discrimination Law - Part 1
01 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we are exploring some of the key themes in Professor Sandra Fredman’s monograph, Discrimination Law – the new, third edition of w...
A Historic Moment: Indian Supreme Court Same-Sex Marriage Decision
22 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In October 2023, a historic decision was made by the Indian Supreme Court that held that there was no fundamental right to marry, denying the legal ...
Catherine Briddick on the UK Rwanda Decision
05 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Vox pops on key human rights issues with human rights experts. Transcript available on the Oxford Human Rights Hub website (ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/).
Cathryn Costello on the UK Immigration Bill
24 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Vox pops on key human rights issues with human rights experts. Transcript available on the Oxford Human Rights Hub website (https://ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/...
Gendered Constitutionalism
24 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode, we talk to Ruth Rubio, Professor in the School of Transnational Governance at the European University Institute, about her boo...
Protests in Iran and Human Rights
12 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we spoke to Dr. Saeed Bagheri, lecturer of International Law at the University of Reading about the women-led protests in Iran, spark...
A Conversation with Justice Majiedt of the South African Constitutional Court
01 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we speak to Justice Steven Majiedt of the Constitutional Court of South Africa on the unique history of South African constitutionali...
The Cost Of Living Crisis and Human Rights
09 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we spoke to Allison Corkery and María Emilia Mamberti at the Centre for Economic and Social Rights about what human rights bring to t...
Gauri Pillai on the Indian Abortion Decision
11 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Vox pops on key human rights issues with human rights experts. Transcript available on the Oxford Human Rights Hub website (https://ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/...
Dobbs v Jackson: A Role for Equality?
04 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we speak to Professor Julie Suk about applying an equality lens to the right to abortion in light of the recent US Supreme Court rulin...
A Historic Moment: The Drafting of the New Chilean Constitution
22 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In advance of a nationwide referendum on the new draft Chilean Constitution, scheduled for the 4th of September, Gautam Bhatia interviews Professor Ro...
RightsUp Pops: Stéphanie Hennette-Vauchez on the Burkini judgment
05 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Vox pops on key human rights issues with human rights experts. Transcript available on the Oxford Human Rights Hub website (https://ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/...
Episode Four- “…that’s the key question”: Institutional Responsibility for Inequality
27 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We ask human rights experts who has ultimate responsibility for protecting the most vulnerable in times of crisis. This is the final episode of a fo...
Episode Three- “...plug those gaps”: Reforms to Equality Law
20 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Human rights experts reveal how we could reform equality law to make sure it protects the most vulnerable in times of crisis. This is Episode Three o...
Episode Two- “…patriarchal mentality”: The Functioning of Equality Law in Crisis
13 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Human rights experts help us determine whether equality law is set up to protect the most vulnerable in times of crisis. This is Episode Two of a fou...
Episode 1- "I can hear another ambulance": The Rise of Exponential Inequalities During COVID-19
06 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Human rights experts tell stories of inequalities from around the world, revealing how these inequalities have been exacerbated during crises like the...
Spotlight on an understudied institution: evictions and the Magistrate's Court in South Africa
02 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Evictions constitute gross violations of a range of internationally recognised human rights, including the rights to adequate housing, food, water, he...
RightsUp Pops: Trevor Moore on Assisted Dying
27 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Vox pops on key human rights issues with human rights experts. Transcript available from the Oxford Human Rights Hub website (ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk)
RightsUp Pops: Catherine Briddick on Equality and Off-Shoring
05 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Vox pops on key human rights issues with human rights experts.
RightsUp Pops: Emilie McDonnell on the Nationality and Borders Bill
03 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Vox pops on key human rights issues with human rights experts.
RightsUp Pops: Alison Young on UK Human Rights Act Review
21 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Vox pops on key human rights issues with human rights experts.
RightsUp Pop: Maitreyi Misra on Deathworthy
15 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Vox pops on key human rights issues with human rights experts.
RightsUp Pops: Joia Crear Perry on Texas Abortion Law
07 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Vox pops on key human rights issues with human rights experts.
The Free Speech Crisis in Universities
14 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Gauri Pillai, Managing Editor of the Oxford Human Rights Hub, speaks to Professor Adrienne Stone, Director of the Centre for Comparat...
RightsUp Pops: Christina Voigt on ecocide
08 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Vox pops on key human rights issues with human rights experts.
Understanding Institutional Racism: A Response to the Sewell Report (with Shreya Atrey)
13 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Seun Matiluko, a journalist and a current BCL student at Oxford Law Faculty, speaks with Dr Shreya Atrey, an Associate Professor in I...
RightsUp Pops: Jayna Kothari on Vikash Kumar
19 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Vox pops on key human rights issues with human rights experts.
Gender in Colombia's Peace Transition (with Isabel Jaramillo Sierra)
12 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we speak with Dr Isabel Cristina Jaramillo from Los Andes University in Colombia about “Gender in Transition: Studies about the Rol...
Rhodes Must Fall (with Rekgotsofetse Chikane)
22 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is part of a four-part series in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. In this episode, guest host Simphiwe Laura Stewart talks wit...
Police Brutality in the United States (with Shea Streeter)
11 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is part of a four-part series in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. In this episode, we talk to Shea Streeter about the seemingl...
Racial Hierarchy and Role of Whiteness (with Savala Trepczynski)
04 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is part of a four-part series in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. In this episode, we talk to Savala Trepczynski about racial ...
A Decolonial Approach to Education and the Law (with Dr Foluke Adebisi)
30 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is part of a four-part series in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. In this episode, we speak with Dr Foluke Adebisi, a Senior L...
The Voice of Hong Kong in Exile (with Nathan Law)
16 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
During the Umbrella Movement in 2014, Nathan Law was one of the five representatives who took part in the dialogue with the Government debating politi...
The Transformative Possibilities of a Constitution (with Joel Modiri and Gautam Bhatia)
25 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Constitutions are the legal bedrock of many countries, but they're also political, and are produced within a specific socio-historical context, much l...
How Our Clicks Cost the Planet: The Internet, Climate Change, and Human Rights (with Michael Oghia)
11 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Covid-19 lockdowns worldwide have forced huge portions of our lives online, from education to work, with important human rights ramifications. But the...
The Politics of Global Health Data (with Sara Davis)
24 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought questions around global healthcare financing and equitable access to treatments to the fore. But this is not the fir...
A Reason for Hope: The Pursuit of Restorative Justice in Colombia (with Judge Julieta Lemaitre)
26 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In 2016, a peace agreement was negotiated between the Colombian Government and one guerrilla movement known as the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Col...
RightsUp - The Impact of Covid-19 on Workers' Rights in the UK (with Michael Ford)
15 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The spread of Covid-19 has affected many areas of our lives with major implications for our rights and freedoms. The instigation of a UK-wide lockdown...
RightsUp - The Need for Empathy: Understanding India's COVID-19 Lockdown (with Kalpana Kannabiran)
08 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected all of us in many ways. States around the world have imposed restrictions of varying levels of stringency to contro...
RightsUp - Defending Human Rights During a Global Pandemic: Lessons from UNAIDS (with Luisa Cabal)
24 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we discuss the intersection between the responses to public health crisis and human rights with Luisa Cabal, Acting Director of the C...
RightsUp - Comparative Human Rights Law Book Launch: Sandy Fredman Talks with Colm O'Cinneide
20 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This is a special episode of RightsUp, which takes Sandy Fredman’s new book, Comparative Human Rights Law, as a starting point for global conversati...
RightsUp - Comparative Human Rights Law Book Launch: Sandy Fredman Talks with Justice Muralidhar
13 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This is a special episode of RightsUp, which takes Sandy Fredman’s new book, Comparative Human Rights Law, as a starting point for global conversati...
RightsUp - Comparative Human Rights Law Book Launch: Sandy Fredman Talks with Edwin Cameron
06 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This is a special episode of RightsUp, which takes Sandy Fredman’s new book, Comparative Human Rights Law, as a starting point for global conversati...
RightsUp #RightNow - Working Together: Human rights and the SDGs (Sandra Fredman)
14 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The United Nations adopted the Sustainable Development Goals in 2015. They aim to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all people...
RightsUp #RightNow - Poverty and Politics in the SDGs (with Philip Alston)
28 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Sustainable Development Goal 1 is to eliminate poverty in all its forms everywhere. Poverty stands in the way of people enjoying many of their basic ...
RightsUp #RightNow - Women, Poverty, Equality: The Role of CEDAW (with Meghan Campbell)
07 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In September 2015, the UN adopted the Sustainable Development Goals to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all people. The Susta...
RightsUp #RightNow - Female Genital Mutilation as a Question of Gender Equality (with Brenda Kelly)
13 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In September 2015, the UN adopted the Sustainable Development Goals to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all people. For the f...
RightsUp - A Theatre of Death: Challenging the Death Penalty in India (with Anup Surendranath)
23 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The death penalty was written into the colonial penal code in India when the country was under British direct rule, and it stayed on the books after i...
RightsUp - When Human Rights Are Not Enough: Defending the Rights of Nature (with Mari Margil)
10 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
There is an unmistakable growing awareness of the ways in which our human lives and the environment are intertwined and interdependent. Unprecedented ...
RightsUp #RightNow - Gender Equality through Economic Development (with Isabel Jaramillo Sierra)
26 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In September 2015, the UN adopted the Sustainable Development Goals to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all people. For the f...
RightsUp #RightNow - Sustainable Development as a Human Right (with Olivier De Schutter)
12 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In September 2015, the UN adopted a set of goals to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all people. These are the UN Sustainable...
RightsUp - Nothing About Us Without Us: Disability Law and Policy in the UK (with Marie Tidball)
29 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Almost exactly a year ago, in January 2017, the UK Department of Education published a report by the Disabled Students Sector Leadership Group (DSSLG)...
RightsUp - The View Beyond Brexit: Equality Rights in Northern Ireland (with Evelyn Collins)
14 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The EU has played an important role both internationally and domestically in EU member states, in developing and protecting equality rights in the int...
RightsUp - The Impact of Brexit on Human Rights in Northern Ireland (with Colin Harvey)
08 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Just this morning, news broke that the UK has reached a deal with the EU. Theresa May announced that there would be no hard border between Ireland and...
RightsUp - A No-Man's Land of Justice: Holding Corporations Accountable (with Boni Meyersfeld)
20 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
There are many ways in which private businesses hold financial and political power akin to states. They also commit violations and abuses of power aki...
RightsUp - Environmental Justice: Coal, Campaigns and Climate Change in America (with Nick Stump)
01 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Following U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement, what is the future of environmental justice and human r...
RightsUp - Transforming the Law: Transgender Rights in the United States (with Corey Stoughton)
30 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In May of 2016, the Obama administration issued federal guidance that stated transgender people are protected according to United States civil rights ...
RightsUp - About Abortion (with Carol Sanger)
12 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Since the 1973 Supreme Court ruling on Roe v. Wade, abortion has been legal in the United States. But terminating pregnancy remains a controversial is...
RightsUp - A Precarious Future? Examining the UK Human Rights Act (with Sir Keir Starmer)
24 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The Human Rights Act incorporated the rights guaranteed in the European Convention on Human Rights into UK law. In this episode, we look at the Human ...
RightsUp - We Never Get Out of the Hands of Men: The Contagious Diseases Acts (with Anne Hanley)
11 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In the 19th century, the Contagious Diseases Acts were passed in the UK and Ireland to curtail the spread of venereal disease among military personnel...
RightsUp - The Death Penalty in the Middle East and North Africa (with James Lynch)
10 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In the six years following the Arab Spring, there has been a notable increase in death sentences and executions in the Middle East and North Africa (M...
RightsUp - UK Supreme Court Rules in Brexit Case (with Alison Young)
30 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
On 24 January 2017, the UK Supreme Court ruled in the case Miller and Dos Santos vs. Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union. The Court deci...
RightsUp - What to Expect When You're Expecting Brexit (with Alison Young)
20 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The UK Supreme Court is expected to deliver a decision on the case Miller and Dos Santos vs. Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union on Janu...
RightsUp - Sex Education in UK Schools (with Meghan Campbell)
16 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
RightsUp #RightNow is a series of mini episodes in the RightsUp podcast series that explores current events dealing with human rights issues. On 11 J...
RightsUp - 'I am not here to delight you': Indira Jaising and Gender Justice in India
03 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 3 of RightsUp (released 08 July 2015) Interviews with: Arushi Garg, Indira Jaising Produced by: Kira Allmann, Max Harris, and Laura Hilly
RightsUp - 'Some Kind of Monster?' The Benefits and Burdens of Human Rights For Business
03 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 2 of RightsUp (released 21 May 2015) Interviews with: David Bilchitz, Karl Laird Produced by: Kira Allmann, Max Harris, and Laura Hilly
RightsUp - New Media, Old Problems: Revenge Porn and the Law
03 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 1 of RightsUp (released 06 May 2015) Interviews with: Mary Anne Franks, Holly Jacobs, Jessica Mason, Clare McGlynn, Ann Olivarius, Erika Rack...