Making rights real: Women’s Platform

Rights for all - building inclusive environments for women of all backgrounds

This episode explores how rights based policy making can effectively support women from migrant, refugee, asylum seeker and ethnic minority backgrounds. Guests in this episode are Julia Fitzpatrick from Migrant Centre NI and Risa Basselin, who highlight experiences of women from a diversity of backgrounds living in Northern Ireland. 

Gender budgeting: Implementing rights in practice

Episode 4 explores how gender budgeting can be used as a concrete tool to help realise human rights standards and frameworks, and how gender budgeting can be integrated effectively into policy making. Guests in this episode are Alexandra Brennan from the Northern Ireland Women's Budget Group and Omna Sreeni-Ong from Engender Consultancy and the Gender Budget Group in Malaysia.

Human rights, diversity and intersectionality

Episode 3 explores how diversity and intersectionality link to human rights standards and frameworks, and how intersectionality can be integrated effectively into policy making. Guests in this episode are Alexa Moore from the Rainbow Project and Pirkko Mahlamäki from the European Disability Forum.

Human rights, diversity and intersectionality

In this episode, we explore what intersectionality means, and how it relates to international human rights, with Alexa Moore from the Rainbow Project in Northern Ireland and Pirkko Mahlamäki from the European Disability Forum.  

Making rights real: Ending violence against women and girls

In this episode, we explore how human rights frameworks can help end violence against women and girls and support effective action, with Sonya McMullan and Karen Devlin from Women's Aid Federation NI. 

Making rights real: The idea of rights and everyday life

In our first episode, we hear from Olivia Potter-Hughes at Northern Ireland Human Rights Consortium and Aslihan Tekin, a human rights lawyer based in Brussels, Belgium. Olivia and Aslihan chat about why human rights matter for all of us, and how they link to women's everyday lives.