On the show today with George, Anya, and Zoya
7.00 am Acknowledgement of Country
7.05 am News Headlines
7.15 am The team discusses the origins of human rights day, the history of human rights and their effectiveness. The team also unpacks the issues of unequal access between states in the Global North and Global South. Our question is: if we genuinely wish to dismantle the imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy (a term coined by Bell Hooks), can this actually be done by a regime that is driven by western states and that homogenises the human experience?
7.45 am Zoya chats to Sam Elkin, Victoria’s first dedicated LGBTIQ outreach lawyer about the queer rights movement and whether human rights frameworks provide protections for trans and gender diverse people in Australia
8.00 am George talks to Dr Niro Kandasamy, a Tamil studies researcher at the University of Melbourne about her research on women with disabilities in Sri Lanak, the universality of human rights, and the importance of access to available legal mechanisms
8.15 am Anya chats to Robyn Oxley, proud Tharawal woman and assistant lecturer at the Monash Criminology department, about what an effective human rights framework looks like for Aboriginal people and how self-determination fits into it, and how such a framework clashes with the ideas of prisons and incarceration
Songs
song: Solo le Pido a Dios - this song is about the military dictatorship in Argentina
artist: Mercedes Sosa
song: Ain't Got No, I Got Life
artist: Nina Simone
song: Arrabi al Arabe
Artist: Mariem Hassan
song: Yaz Gazeteci Yaz
Artist: Selda Bağcan
Ivka, Frances, Kannagi, and Phuong
