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Making rights real: Women’s Platform

Making rights real: Women’s Platform

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 Welcome to our podcast series! In this series, we’re looking at what human rights mean in practical, everyday life with experts from Northern Ireland and across Europe. The series aims to demystify international human rights standards and connect them to women’s daily lives, to look at how rights based approaches can create better societies for women and girls. Join us as we explore issues from why rights matter to ending violence against women and girls, intersectional practice and gender budgeting! The podcast is made possible by support from the Dormant Accounts Fund NI.Copyright 2024 All rights reserved. Social Sciences
Episodes
  • Making rights real: Human rights to end poverty

    Making rights real: Human rights to end poverty
    Apr 16 2025

    In this episode, we look at how human rights standards and frameworks can be used to support action on poverty. We focus in particular on the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, which covers rights from equal pay for equal work to decent living conditions. Our guests in this episode are Siobhán Harding from Women's Support Network and Helen Flynn from Just Fair.

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    17 mins
  • Rights for all - building inclusive environments for women of all backgrounds

    Rights for all - building inclusive environments for women of all backgrounds
    Mar 21 2025

    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.

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    16 mins
  • Gender budgeting: Implementing rights in practice

    Gender budgeting: Implementing rights in practice
    Feb 12 2025

    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.
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    18 mins
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