Child Rights Chat

Nov 23 2022 54 mins

#ChildRightsChat is a multinational project with the overall aim to create a digital space for learning about children’s rights, their legal instruments and the challenges for their protection and promotion in practice. We have a Twitter account, @childsrightschat, and a website, childrightschat.com, and this is the podcast, a student-led educational tool aimed at enriching and enhancing our knowledge and understanding of the work of Advocates, Scholars, Defenders, etc.... Students engage in conversation with inspiring figures in the field of children's rights and education with different focuses throughout the series.

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Global Advocates #5: Queerness, Growing Up Gay, Being Non-Binary and the LGBTQ+ Community

Nov 23 2022 59 mins

This is a special episode where we get close and personal about our experiences. One of my best friends Gerard Ortiga and I (Marc) discuss many questions around being queer, intersectionality, realising you are trans, etc. We also talk about how lack of queer representation can affect your normal development as a child, we offer an insight into queer ecology and its healing potenti

Global Advocates #4: Decolonise New Zealand, Intersectional Social Justice, Animal Liberation - Aotearoa Liberation League

Nov 12 2022 48 mins

With Aotearoa Liberation League: Samah Sege (she/her) and Chris Huriwai (he/him)Please check out and support their work: www.all.org.nz/Aotearoa Liberation League defines itself as decolonial justice initiative. They talk to me about intersectional social justice, animal liberation and rights from a decolonial perspective, the decolonise movement in Aotearoa, prison abolition, and

Global Advocates #3: Lawyer on Migration and Human Rights at the Doors of Europe - Melilla, Spain - Mar Soriano

Nov 09 2022 53 mins

Please check out their work and support them by giving a one-off or regular donation: www.solidarywheels.orgMar Soriano Marfà (she/her) is a lawyer from Barcelona. She studied Law and Global Governance and specialised in migration, a field she continues to work in today. She has also contributed her knowledge and great practice in other social justice movements such as homelessnes

Global Advocates #2: Vera Rodriguez on Therapy, LGBTQ+ Youth, Children in Guatemala and More

Nov 07 2022 59 mins

LINK TO THE FUNDRAISER (and to read about the project) https://linktr.ee/centronutricionalintegral (Please donate and/or share!)Vera Rodriguez (she/her) is a clinical psychologist and certified plant-based nutritionist based in Guatemala City. She is also an advocate for the rights of children and youth in her country and is currently working on a project to support them (see link

Global Advocates #1: Nivi Wille on the Decolonisation of Greenland and Inuit Healing

Nov 01 2022 52 mins

Nivi Wille is an indigenous Inuk advocate who works as a holistic psychologist helping heal generational trauma from colonisation and the ongoing state of coloniality in Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland).Give this episode a listen if you want to learn about Inuit culture and the effects of a colonisation often not talked about, through the lens of a psychologist who is also a direct vic