UN Human Rights Podcast: #Standup4Migrants
We believe there is an urgent need to question and change the way we speak about migrants and migration. How we speak about migrants and migration – the narrative – therefore plays a fundamental role in guaranteeing equality and the human rights of migrants. Stories have the power to uplift, inspire and connect. Through these tales of hope, inclusion and change, we hope to replace narratives of fear, division and exclusion about migrants. One story at a time.
Episodes
Thursday Jul 14, 2022
Do No Harm
Thursday Jul 14, 2022
Thursday Jul 14, 2022
Meet Musician Austin Zhang who uses the power of music, by harmonizing his saxophone jazz melodies with a recording of his mother’s own story of migration to accentuate the emotions of her story. In this episode of the UN Human Rights podcast, #StandUp4HumanRights, we focus on how migration is not one-dimensional and why telling individual stories of migration, which reflect all dimensions of people can help avoid the pitfall of triggering a harmful narrative on migration.
Wednesday Jun 08, 2022
Build a Big Tent with Niria Alicia Garcia
Wednesday Jun 08, 2022
Wednesday Jun 08, 2022
In this episode of the UN Human Rights podcast, #StandUp4Migrants, we explore why it's important to find allies across advocacy issues and identities. Meet Niria Alicia Garcia, a Xicana human rights advocate whose parents migrated from Mexico to the United States. Our conversation with Garcia explores her activism and insight on how we can multiply our impact by expanding our network to meet new allies.
Monday May 09, 2022
Finding Common Ground
Monday May 09, 2022
Monday May 09, 2022
In this episode of the UN Human Rights podcast, #StandUp4Migrants, we look at how finding common ground can help us deepen mutual understanding and empathy, build bridges, and help to identify and open spaces for migrant voices to be heard. Meet Sofija Stefanovic, author of “Alien Nation,” an anthology of 36 tales of migration, as she seeks to create a space where migrants can share their stories and listeners can revel in our shared humanity.
Thursday Apr 07, 2022
Think Local with Nik’s Fudo
Thursday Apr 07, 2022
Thursday Apr 07, 2022
In the next #StandUp4Migrants podcast episode, we meet the team from Nik's Fudo who are bringing migrants and communities together at the local level. Join us as we chat with the founders of Nik's Fudo, Nishanie Jayamaha and Nikhil Masilamani, and chefs Safa Gharbi, Naila Samin.
Tuesday Mar 01, 2022
Power Of Storytelling
Tuesday Mar 01, 2022
Tuesday Mar 01, 2022
In this episode of the UN Human Rights Podcast, #StandUp4Migrants, we're examining the power of storytelling with Ali Jehad, a photographer from Sweden and former political refugee from Iraq and Robin Hammond, founder of the 1000 Dreams project, which strives to change existing refugee narratives by telling the personal stories of 1000 refugees in Europe.
Tuesday Jan 25, 2022
Create a vision of the world you want to see
Tuesday Jan 25, 2022
Tuesday Jan 25, 2022
In this episode of the UN Human Rights podcast, #StandUp4Migrants, we speak to land artist Saype. Saype creates large-scale paintings on grass with biodegradable paint. The artwork can only be seen in its entirety by taking an aerial perspective. Saype uses his artwork to inspire people to have a hopeful vision of the world.
Tuesday Dec 14, 2021
Values-based Narratives
Tuesday Dec 14, 2021
Tuesday Dec 14, 2021
Jose Antonio Vargas believes that storytelling has the power to humanise the conversation around migration. In 2011, he founded Define American, an organisation which aims to have an open dialogue about the criteria and limits that are often placed on ‘who belongs’ to a nation. As a writer and filmmaker who happens to be an undocumented migrant himself, for years Vargas has been tirelessly standing up for the equal rights of migrants, regardless of their status.
#StandUp4Migrants
When migrants are portrayed in a negative light, their human rights are heavily impacted. They are discriminated, excluded and dehumanized. How we speak about migrants and migration – the narrative – plays a fundamental role in guaranteeing equality and the human rights of migrants. #StandUp4Migrants focuses on shifting toxic and divisive narratives on migrants and refugees towards telling stories that are more hopeful, uplifting and unifying.