On the side of humanity: Courageous human rights defenders living and working around the globe

Amnesty International

In our second season Tatyana Movshevich meets abortion rights defenders from across the world – from Venezuela to Morocco, from Malta to Namibia. Amid all the disinformation and hostility, abortion rights defenders have found themselves in the blinding spotlight – against their will and expectation. In this podcast we hear their stories and find out how they work against the backdrop of violence and stigma. And how they are also driving one of the most significant social shifts in recent years. For season credits please see https://www.amnesty.org/on-the-side-of-humanity

6 Episodes

Episode 3: An unstoppable wave
9/27/2024
26:15
In the Mexican state of Guanajuato women used to be imprisoned for abortions or miscarriages for decades - Veronica Cruz Sanchez’s fierce campaigning led to their unexpected release. Now Veronica’s organization Las Libres is running a secret network of volunteers who are sending free abortion medication to women in the U.S. Tatyana Movshevich explores how the global movement of abortion rights defenders known as the Green Wave was born.
Episode 2: A labyrinth with no exit
9/27/2024
23:11
Namibian midwife Sylvia Hamata battles against double standards and abortion stigma in the climate which leaves many of her colleagues paralyzed with fear. Advocate Stephanie Willman Bordat shares previously untold stories of women in Morocco who have been ostracized by society and family for the impossible choices they faced. Later we find out how a human tragedy sparked a huge change in Ireland.
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Episode 1: A knock on the door
9/27/2024
29:30
Amnesty International’s Tatyana Movshevich meets Venezuelan teacher Vanessa Rosales. When her 13-year student was raped, Vanessa helped her to get an abortion and was arrested for it. We also travel to Malta where the country’s only open pro-choice gynaecologist is running a phone-in abortion advice service – at great personal and professional risk.
Episode 3: Unknown names and faces
12/8/2023
29:46
Irish activist Sean Binder tells Amnesty International’s Tatyana Movshevich how his freedom was compromised while he was saving lives on an idyllic Greek island. Later we travel to Ghana - there a journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas works deep undercover to investigate some of the gravest crimes imaginable. (Episode cover image © Muntaka Chasant)
Episode 2: Long-ignored
12/8/2023
27:52
Queer Black activist Monica Simpson from the U.S. and Dalit feminist Durga Sob from Nepal live across the world from each other, but are both fighting against intersecting forms of discrimination that have been ignored for generations. Racism and caste-discrimination are rife and the two human rights defenders are facing grave risks because of their work. Monica Raye Simpson’s ‘Freedom Song’ in episode 2 is from her album ‘Revolutionary Love’
Episode 1: Hard-won words and new crises
12/8/2023
25:08
Amnesty International’s Tatyana Movshevish discovers the story behind the watershed UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders which was adopted in 1998 after decades of diplomacy, negotiations and confrontation. She also meets a Chilean water defender Lorena Donaire whose life was turned upside down as she was tackling the catastrophic results of a mega-drought. Lorena’s voiceover in Episode 1 is done by Selina Nelte

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On the side of humanity: Courageous human rights defenders living and working around the globe

Amnesty International

6 Episodes

Episode 3: An unstoppable wave

Episode 2: A labyrinth with no exit

Episode 1: A knock on the door

Episode 3: Unknown names and faces

Episode 2: Long-ignored

Episode 1: Hard-won words and new crises