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Women in Focus: Human Trafficking in Canada Targeting Marginalized Women
In this episode students focus on human trafficking in Canada, exploring how women are suppressed emotionally, spiritually, and physically which can inhibit them from ...
Sex Work in Thailand/ Thai Sex Industry
Summary of the episode:In this episode, students discuss Thailand as an example of how sex workers are treated in the global south. They compare Thailand’s illegal sex...
Gender-Based Violence: Where are the Laws Protecting Women in War?
This podcast discusses gender-based violence against women in war-time, using the war in Ethiopia as an example. On 4 November 2020, war erupted in the Tigray, the war...
Is it Gendered?
When looking at these statistics, one is inclined to believe that all older adults are equally likely to experience some form of elder abuse, but that is unfortunately...
Perpetuating Factors That Contribute to Violence Towards Women
This podcasts presents an overview on violence against women. Considering it a deeply concerning issue around the world and the ubiquity of this issue strengthens the ...
Rights on Reel: Exploring Human Rights Through Film
In this episode, students delve into the complex relationship between film and humanrights. The conversation explores how films have been used as a medium to convey an...
Gender-based discrimination in the Arab Emirates
The overarching subject of this podcast is gender inequality in the United Arab Emirates(UAE), focusing on the question: to what extent can gender inequality organizat...
AI & Gender Discrimination
Technology is more prevalent today than it has ever been (Heo et al., 2021). With thecurrent COVID-19 pandemic, technology itself has progressed at such an extensive r...
Resisting Colonial Gender-based Violence
Our podcast's central focus is on Indigenous women's rights and the pervasive issue of gender-based violence. We specifically concentrate on combating violence against...
Violence Against Indigenous Women in Canada
This podcast explores how Indigenous women have and still are having their rights violated and how these violations are not being addressed by the colonial government....
Gender Issues in Human Rights: Gender-based Violence and Feminicide in Canada
We have chosen the topic of gender violence as a human rights issue because it is widespread and global. We are interested in discussing gender violence from a theoret...
Writing Wrongs: Exploring Human Rights and Genocide in Canada
Often language employed within universal laws are inaccessible to the public and can only be understood by those retaining a high level of selective education, which i...
Excavating Yogyakart
In this episode, students explicitly excavate the Yogyakarta principles, looking at the barriers to Canadian and International implementation. Students use different g...
Gender-Variance in Human Rights
This episode explores how language and inclusion of LGBTQ+ terminology in human rights, and women’s rights can be expanded. The students focus on trans and gender-va...
The Canadian Context: Abortion Rights
This podcast focuses on abortion rights in Canada: what is the history of abortion rights in Canada? Are there any legislated protections in place for individuals want...
Abortion Rights and the Overturn of Roe vs. Wade
This is an extremely important topic because of how many intersections lead to women’s rights. Women still deal with an immense amount of violence and discrimination, ...
Global Access to Abortion and impact of Roe vs. Wade
Following the overturn of Roe v. Wade in the United States, the topic of abortion has been present in the minds of many in North America. There has been access to safe...
The Overturning of Roe v. Wade: From a Critical Feminist Human Rights Perspective
Roe v.Wade was a landmark Supreme Court case brought in 1973. The ruling stated that undue State restriction of abortion before 24 weeks of pregnancy was unconstitutio...
Is Anybody Actually Listening to Us?
Abortion remains a subject often discussed at the policy level and within activist channels in addition to being debated in public spaces by citizens more generally. D...
Introducing Gender 305 Gender and International Human Rights
In this episode series, Tamara Gonsalves provides insight into student podcasts regarding gender and international human rights.In 2022 and 2023, students were asked t...
