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In this episode of The Advocast, we delve into how The Advocates and our partners utilize the UPR to help promote and defend the rights of LGBTIQ+ people around the world.

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This episode features a speech from Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the ACLU's Immigrants' Rights Project and recipient of The Advocates' Special Recognition Award at this year's Human Rights Awards Dinner. This episode also included a brief introduction by Michele McKenzie, Deputy Director at The Advocates.

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This episode features a speech from Sarah Stoesz, the former President and CEO of Planned Parenthood North Central States. Stoesz was honored at our 2024 Human Rights Awards Dinner for her lifetime commitment to reproductive health and human rights.

This episode features an interview with Bill Hittler, who discusses his experience volunteering as a pro bono attorney with The Advocates. Bill was also recently honored with a volunteer award at our 2024 Human Rights Awards Dinner.

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In this episode we talk with Lindsey Greising, Staff Attorney with The Advocates, about the recent political happenings surrounding immigration.

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This year, at our annual Human Rights Awards Dinner, we recognized Justice Alan Page as the Don & Arvonne Fraser Human Rights Award Recipient for his life-long commitment to human rights. Justice Page has actively advocated for human rights, equality, and social justice throughout his career as a Supreme Court Justice, attorney, and professional athlete.

This episode features a conversation with Justice Page moderated by PBS NewsHour's Fred de Sam Lazaro.

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Across the United States, a dramatic rise in legislation targeting transgender and gender non-conforming people increasingly threatens the human rights of LGBTIQ+ people. These laws not only put transgender and gender non-conforming people at serious risk of discrimination and harm, but they also contravene international human rights standards.

In this episode, we will look at the anti-trans movement in the United States, the impact of these laws on transgender people's lives, and how international human rights law addresses issues of gender identity and expression.

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An explosive report in the New York Times found that hundreds of unaccompanied children are being exploited for their labor by some of America's biggest companies. Child labor is only possible through multiple failures of the protection system to prevent such abuses.

In this episode, Michele Garnett McKenzie, deputy director of The Advocates for Human Rights, is joined by attorneys Kim Boche, who represents unaccompanied children facing removal, and Lindsey Greising, who represents victims of labor trafficking, to understand how the legal system protects - or puts at risk - unaccompanied children.

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The Immigration Court Observation Project draws on the international human rights practice of trial monitoring to identify, bring visibility to, and end systemic human rights violations arising in the context of civil immigration enforcement.

The project brings  observers from the public into the Fort Snelling Immigration Court in Minnesota to observe and document  immigration hearings. The project launched in 2017 to monitor hearings  of people facing deportation while held in Immigration and Customs  Enforcement (ICE) detention. Today, volunteers observe hearings on the  detained, non-detained, and dedicated families and children dockets.

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The following episode is a recording of the conversation between Alison Beckman, Hanne Sandison (Senior Staff Attorney at the Advocates) and  Madison Swanson (Refugee and Immigrant Program Legal Intern at the  Advocates).

Alison Beckman is a licensed therapist and Senior Clinical Consultant for the  Center for Victims of Torture, a Minnesota-based organization which  envisions a world free from torture and all of its sociological,  psychological, and physical effects. CVT combines research, training,  and advocacy with hands-on healing services for torture survivors in  Minnesota, Georgia, and abroad. In our conversation, Alison breaks down  CVT's work and delves into the experiences of torture survivors as they  navigate the asylum process, including how their trauma may affect their  memory and ability to testify in court. Highlighting what can be most  terrifying for torture victims while sharing best practices to carry  them through these moments, our conversation covers how attorneys can  best support their clients when CVT's therapists cannot be in the room  with us.