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Strength & Solidarity — 126 episodes
60. Human Rights: Expanding our ambition
59. China: Staying the course
Best Of: North Korea: What future do Koreans want, and do they agree?
Best Of: The Coda #24: Seamus Heaney’s Casualty - on violence, complicity and freedom
Best Of: Iran: Building a movement for rights in exile
Best Of: The Coda #3: When African independence struck a chord with US activists
58. Tunisia: Queer courage as strategy
The Coda #46: Things are gonna be alright
57. Climate justice: the untapped potential of the over-60s
The Coda #45: Strength from stories of resistance
56. Burn-out: the downward spiral harming a whole field
The Coda #44: The mood-altering powers of Baroque music
55. Turkey: Watching US developments from Istanbul
54. Human Rights: The Symposium is ending – what did we learn?
53. Mexico: A new home for Central America’s exiles
The Coda #43: Missing a beloved Venezuelan mountain
52. Nigeria: What’s happening to the activists?
The Coda #42: How Fairuz’s songs pointed to a life defending rights
51. Iran: Building a movement for rights in exile
The Coda #41: Learning lessons in resilience from nature
50. US Aid freeze: Catastrophe or Opportunity?
49. Myanmar: What a decade of democracy meant for LGBTQ rights
The Coda #40: ‘Books are a freedom for me’
48. North Korea: What future do Koreans want, and do they agree?
The Coda #39: Soccer as a strategy for cooling passions
47. Gaza: Is the global human rights system at risk?
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Best Of: 37. Uganda: Fighting to turn back a law – and anti-LGBT hatred
Best Of: UDHR@75: Can our human rights system ever fulfill its promise?
Best Of: USA: A Jewish group’s 30-year solidarity with Palestine
46. Kenya: The Birth and Resilience of a Social Movement
The Coda #38: How storytelling rewrote resistance in Burma
45. South-East Asia: When does a hashtag become a movement?
The Coda #37: The human rights leader who writes TV scripts
44. Colombia: The strategy that decriminalized abortion
The Coda #36: The library that became a home for black Berlin
43. South Africa: Organizing – a superpower for the landless
The Coda #35: "What I regretted most were my silences"
42. US: The promise – and the challenge – of a coalition for rights
The Coda #34: Learn to stop, if you want to keep going
41. UK: When the police are the harm not the cure
The Coda #33: Letting go of a cherished illusion
40. USA: A Jewish group’s 30-year solidarity with Palestine
The Coda #32: Making art to mend what is broken
39. UDHR@75: Can our human rights system ever fulfil its promise?
The Coda #31: When activism falls short, try a poem
38. Bahrain: The power of direct action – and the cost
37. Uganda: Fighting to turn back a law – and anti-LGBT hatred
The Coda #30: The film inspiring a new generation of disability activists
Best of: Palestine: Refusing to be a second-class citizen
Best of: When does the language of rights have power?
Best of: Has the Human Rights framework outlived its purpose?
Best of: Mexico: In search of trust – beyond privilege and exclusion
Best of: Nigeria: Driving police reform through mass protest
Best of: Argentina: A stunning victory for woman
36. Zimbabwe: You can’t keep a good movement down
The Coda #29: ‘Filled with music, filled with justice’
35. Disability Rights: Activism as a vital ingredient for victories
34. Hungary: Learning useful lessons from your enemies
The Coda #28: ‘Stop burning this country to the ground’
33. Strategy: The pain of charting a new course– and the gain
The Coda #27: ‘When we go to the Defense Ministry, we start with poetry’
32. South Africa: The challenge of offering solidarity without strings
The Coda #26: ‘These young artistes are fearless!’
31. Women’s Rights: Frontlines in the global feminist movement
In Memoriam: Swazi human rights defender, Thulani Maseko
30. Egypt: The price of defeat, the power of conviction
The Coda #25: The liberating power of an Audre Lorde metaphor
29. Human Rights: A tension at the heart of the UN
The Coda #24: Seamus Heaney’s Casualty - on violence, complicity and freedom
28. Guatemala: The digital spark that that ignited a protest movement
The Coda #23: We may fall but we keep climbing
27. Palestine: Refusing to be a second-class citizen
The Coda #22: When dancing Salsa is good for human rights
Our Next Season
26. Disability rights: How ‘nothing about us without us” powered a global treaty
25. Europe: Building solidarity with Migrants and Refugees
The Coda #21: Waywardness –a way to defy oppression
24. Afghanistan: can the Taliban tame the hunger for rights?
The Coda #20: Staying hopeful in dark times
23. Egypt: When professionalizing your organization makes you safer
22, Part 2. A high stakes struggle to win rights and justice for Libya
22, Part 1. A high stakes struggle to win rights and justice for Libya
The Coda #19: Keeping faith with your country -from exile
21. Myanmar’s citizens battle military rule - alone
The Coda #18: Valuing friction in the work of advancing rights
20. Will Russia be held accountable for its war on Ukraine?
19. Social movement or NGO? Can it be both?
The Coda #17: Real activism happens IRL
18. An epic struggle against military rule in Sudan
The Coda #16: Stop scrolling and read!
17. Aim high! A Victory for New York’s Undocumented Workers
The Coda #15: Being Queer in Malaysia: 'A little bit out but - still not out'
Our New Season
16. Solidarity as a tool for defending Palestinian rights
The Coda #14: ‘Stretching the body instead of the mind’ -in the ocean
15. Pushing back against xenophobia in South Korea
14. Protecting the mental health of human rights workers
The Coda #13: When a local bar is the heart of community and creativity
13. Defending Rights in India Amid Covid and Repression
12. Building activist movements for the long haul
The Coda #12: Getting into good trouble in Zimbabwe
11. What’s so great about a feminist manager?
The Coda #11: Being the light of the world and the salt of the earth
10. Mexico: In search of trust – beyond privilege and exclusion
The Coda #10: A lesson in courage from a Salvadoran Archbishop
9. Nigeria: Driving police reform through mass protest
The Coda #9: How poetry fueled Sudan’s revolution
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The Coda #8: Bangladesh’s national poet Nazrul inspires passion long after his demise
8. When does the language of rights have power?
The Coda #7: A veteran activist in Israel on a poem she has come to cherish
7. What do human rights leaders need?
The Coda #6: How a 1970 samba promised Brazilians a future beyond dictatorship
6. Argentina: A stunning victory for women
The Coda #5: A Mexican feminist who spoke women’s truth to men’s power
5. Hong Kong: Winning support abroad for the struggle at home
The Coda #4: Hope on the wing in spite of terror
4. China: Securing local funds for rights
The Coda #3: When African independence struck a chord with US activists
3. Has the Human Rights framework outlived its purpose?
The Coda #2: ‘Don’t believe anything a jailer tells you’
2. South Africa: Rebuilding a movement’s culture after crisis
The Coda #1 : For those with good intentions - a warning about hubris
1. Afghanistan: Daring to believe in human rights
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