‘Rights in Crisis’, is a new RightsUp series from the Oxford Human Rights Hub in collaboration with the Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development.

The series will feature topics on human rights and related issues in India with experts sharing their insights.

In our second episode for this series, Prof. Anup Surendranath and Prof. Jon Yorke, moderated by Dr Aradhana Cherupara Vadekkethil, critically assess the legal, moral and procedural dimensions of capital punishment and its broader human rights implications.

At a time when judicial scrutiny of capital punishment in India is intensifying, and global conversations on justice and state power are shifting, this discussion offers timely insights into the ethical and constitutional questions surrounding the death penalty.

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In this episode, Frances Hand talks to Dr Clara Chapdelaine Feliciati, Lawyer and Associate Professor of Law at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University about her recently published monograph, The Status of the Girl Child under International Law: A Semioethic Analysis.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/status-of-the-girl-child-under-international-law/568D0F764A3E85960F03056352CADD74

RightsUp is brought to you by the Oxford Human Rights Hub.

This episode is hosted by Frances Hand.

Executive produced by Meghan Campbell.

Produced and edited by Sophie Smith.

Music for this series is by Rosemary Allmann.

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'.

Dr Ubani is the pioneer executive director of #FixPolitics, fellow of the Chartered Institute of Administrators, author, speaker and alumnus of Manchester Business School and the University of Lagos, Nigeria. Dr Otiso is the Dean, School of Law at the Chuka University in Kenya and a contributor to the book.

This book, edited by Furaha-joy Sekai Saungweme, Carol Chi Ngang and Graham Towl, presents new research into sexual harassment and violence across Africa and foregrounds the work of African scholars.

RightsUp is brought to you by the Oxford Human Rights Hub.

This episode is hosted by Almas Shaikh.

Executive produced by Meghan Campbell.

Produced and edited by Sophie Smith.

Music for this series is by Rosemary Allmann.

'Rights in Crisis', is a new RightsUp series from the Oxford Human Rights Hub in collaboration with the Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development. The series will feature topics on human rights and related issues in India with experts sharing their insights.

In this episode Dr. Janaki Srinivasan and Prof. Sandra Feldman, moderated by Dr Aradhana Cherupara Vadekkethil, discuss the nature of the Indian gig economy and how it affects workers’ rights. This conversation explores the precarious conditions of gig workers in India, the legal frameworks shaping their rights, and the broader implications of platform economies on labour protections. With rising digital employment, questions of fair wages, job security, and social protections are more pressing than ever.

RightsUp is brought to you by the Oxford Human Rights Hub.

This episode is hosted by Neeraj Shetye.

Executive produced by Meghan Campbell.

Produced and edited by Sophie Smith.

Music for this series is by Rosemary Allmann.

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.

Executive produced and hosted by Meghan Campbell.

Produced and edited by Sophie Smith.

Music for this series is by Rosemary Allmann.

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 achieve women’s equality must respond to the climate crisis.

This series is a joint project from the Oxford Human Rights Hub, led by Professor Sandra Fredman, and the National Research Foundation-funded South African Research Chair in Equality, Law, and Social Justice at the University of the Witwatersrand, held by Professor Cathi Albertyn.

The conversations in this podcast series stem from a new edited collection, ‘Feminist Frontiers in Climate Justice: Rights, climate change and gender equality’, published by Edward Elgar in February 2023 and edited by Cathi Albertyn, Meghan Campbell, Helena Alviar García, Sandra Fredman, and Marta Rodriguez de Assis Machado.

RightsUp is brought to you by the Oxford Human Rights Hub.

Executive Produced by Meghan Campbell.

Produced, edited and narrated by Sophie Smith.

Music for this series is by Rosemary Allmann.

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 achieve women’s equality must respond to the climate crisis.

This series is a joint project from the Oxford Human Rights Hub, led by Professor Sandra Fredman, and the National Research Foundation-funded South African Research Chair in Equality, Law, and Social Justice at the University of the Witwatersrand, held by Professor Cathi Albertyn.

The conversations in this podcast series stem from a new edited collection, ‘Feminist Frontiers in Climate Justice: Rights, climate change and gender equality’, published by Edward Elgar in February 2023 and edited by Cathi Albertyn, Meghan Campbell, Helena Alviar García, Sandra Fredman, and Marta Rodriguez de Assis Machado.

RightsUp is brought to you by the Oxford Human Rights Hub.

Executive Produced by Meghan Campbell.

Produced, edited and narrated by Sophie Smith.

Music for this series is by Rosemary Allmann.

In this episode, Meghan Campbell talks with Dorothy Estrada-Tanck, Chairperson of the UN Working Group on discrimination against women and girls, about the concept of gender apartheid in light of the horrific denial of the equality and human rights of women and girls in Afghanistan. Dorothy and other members of the Working Group have been advocating for understanding this violation as gender apartheid. 

In our conversation, we explore what this concept means, what salience it has in thinking more broadly about the current backlash against women's rights and how gender apartheid can be utilized to fight for women's equality.

RightsUp is brought to you by the Oxford Human Rights Hub.

This episode was produced in partnership with the EUniWell Fund and the University of Birmingham.

Executive produced and hosted by Meghan Campbell.

Produced and edited by Sophie Smith.

Music for the series is by Rosemary Allman.

Virtually all constitutions guarantee women's right to equality, yet, there is a rise in backlash against legal, political, economic, social and cultural efforts to achieve women's equality.

This podcast series speaks with leading legal scholars from the US, Canada, South Africa and India to explore how constitutions can frustrate efforts to achieve women's equality, and to imagine a new constitutionalism that places women as equal actors and participants in the constitutional project.

On today's episode Meghan Campbell is joined by Judge Dhaya Pillay of the High Court in Pietermaritzburg and Durban, to discuss women in the South African Constitution.

RightsUp is brought to you by the Oxford Human Rights Hub.

This series, Women in Constitutions, was produced in partnership with the British Academy and the University of Birmingham.

Executive produced and hosted by Megan Campbell.

Produced and edited by Sophie Smith.

Music for the series is by Rosemary Allman.

Virtually all constitutions guarantee women's right to equality, yet, there is a rise in backlash against legal, political, economic, social and cultural efforts to achieve women's equality.

This podcast series speaks with leading legal scholars from the US, Canada, South Africa and India to explore how constitutions can frustrate efforts to achieve women's equality, and to imagine a new constitutionalism that places women as equal actors and participants in the constitutional project.

On today's episode Meghan Campbell is joined by Professor Jennifer Koshan, from the University of Calgary, to discuss women in the Canadian Constitution.

RightsUp is brought to you by the Oxford Human Rights Hub.

This series, Women in Constitutions, was produced in partnership with the British Academy and the University of Birmingham.

Executive produced and hosted by Megan Campbell.

Produced and edited by Sophie Smith.

Music for the series is by Rosemary Allman.