Women's human rights defenders under threat – podcast
Defenders of women's human rights around the world are facing systematic targeting. Liz Ford investigates
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Thursday 2 April 2015 02.00 EDTLast modified on
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Liz Ford presents this edition of the Global
development podcast, looking at the challenges faced by women's rights
defenders around the world. Back in 1995, 189 governments signed up to the
historic agenda of the Beijing platform for action, which made a specific call
for women engaged in the defence of human rights to be protected. Twenty years
on, that call appears to have been ignored. We hear from women's rights
defenders who are coming under attack for their work.
Daysi Flores, JASS Honduras country director, talks about
the situation in Honduras, where the imprisonment
of Gladys Lanza, one of the country's most respected feminists,
marks a fresh low.
Nimalka Fernando, president of the International Movement
Against All Forms of Discrimination and Racism in Sri Lanka, talks about the misogynist
attacks that she has faced.
Maryam Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, co-director of the Gulf Centre
for Human Rights, looks at the situation for women in Bahrain.
Khouloud Mahdhaoui, a human rights activist in Tunisia,
discusses LGBT attacks in her home country.
Phumzile Mlambo Nguka, the executive director of UN Women,
explains how the wave of extremism around the world has affected anyone
standing up for women's rights.
Tania
Branigan, the Guardian's China correspondent, talks about the five women
who were arrested in the days before International Women's Day
in China, over their plans to highlight sexual harassment
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