To the Righthouse Podcast – second series

The Global Campus of Human Rights is proud to announce that the second series of its podcast “To the Righthouse” is now on air!

With this new series “Hope-based Human Rights” we wanted to move away from 'crisis narratives' or human rights discourses focussed on denouncing the wrongs and instead try and argue that discourses based on hope, empathy and solidarity are more effective frames to talk about human rights.

To do so, we have invited 5 guests who will discuss a different theme each week, starting from Monday 5 June, with the host Graham Finlay, lecturer at University College Dublin:

1. The importance of positive human rights narratives, with George Ulrich, Global Campus of Human Rights Academic Director
2. The need to stress achievements (big and small), with Mary Lawlor, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders
3. The power of telling a human story, with Andrew Leon Hanna, author of “25 Million Sparks: The Untold Story of Refugee Entrepreneurs”
4. The importance of hopefulness in creating justice, with Marina Shupac, award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker
5. A picture of the world we want to see, with Thomas Coombes, global communications strategist