Elaine Pearson is the Asia Director at Human Rights Watch and a board member of the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women. Elaine has spent a lifetime defending human rights around the world. From human trafficking in in Nepal to the 'drug war' in the Philippines, to the treatment of detainees in Papua New Guinea and in Australia and her experiences in Sri Lanka and Nigeria. Chasing Wrongs and Rights is a deeply personal survey of human rights abuses and governments' failure to address them. It sometimes shows humanity at its worst, but also introduces us to people at their best – compassionate, resilient and determined individuals pressing for change.

In this episode Gregory Dobbs chats to Elaine Pearson about her early experiences as an advocate for Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women at the United Nations in Geneva and how it shaped her career, the refugees in detention on Manus Island that she met and reported on, the time she spent in an Amsterdam prostitutes window, and the challenges that countries across Asia pose for human rights into the future and what we can do about it.