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17 episodes
since May 28, 2026
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For 30 years, Simon Billenness, director of the Campaign for a New Myanmar and former head of the Free Burma Coalition, has turned consumer boycotts, shareholder resolutions, and bipartisan lobbying into real pressure on Myanmar's military junta. He traces the coup history, from the 2015 NLD electi…

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Fresh from the 20th annual Human Rights Summit, hosted by Timor-Leste at UN headquarters, Demme Durrett, co-director of Youth for Human Rights USA, and Emma Ashton Sims, executive director of United for Human Rights and Youth for Human Rights International, unpack why human rights education drives …
More than a century after the 1904–1908 genocide scattered the Nama people across Namibia and Botswana, their descendants are demanding a seat at the table in the ongoing reparations talks between Namibia and Germany. Nicodemus Cooper of Botswana's Namakhoen Network of Heritage Advocacy, Bhibo Maru…
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For more than three decades, Rodion, an Udege leader from Russian Siberia, has fought to protect his community's ancestral forest from industrial logging. That fight led to a landmark win: UNESCO World Heritage status for the Bikin River Valley, one of the last untouched forests on Earth and home t…
In this episode of Cooper Union, Em Haley, a Māori spoken-word artist, scholar, and human rights advocate from Waikato-Tainui, Aotearoa, discusses the fight to protect Māori language, land, and self-determination under a government rolling back Treaty of Waitangi protections. She reflects on the hi…
In this episode of Cooper Union, Sarah, a community organizer and researcher in Utrecht, and Morten, a longtime human rights advocate from Denmark, discuss UCLG's new Global Charter-Agenda for Human Rights in the City, just adopted by 250,000 cities worldwide. They unpack the charter's 37 rights ac…
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