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lab for resilience
lab for resilience serves as a hub for rights-based initiatives and reclaim civic space in Turkey and beyond, building on the lived experience of rights defenders. At the intersection of human rights, gender equality, and cross-border solidarity, this lab brings together activists, scholars, journalists, and civil society actors to foster dialogue, and collaboration in increasingly repressive environments.
Gendering Human Rights
This HMB interview series is conducted within the context of the "Defending Others, Liberating Themselves: WHRD's experiences in Turkey" project. wihtin the series 10 human rights defenders were interviewed in live events.
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december 2021
team:
Özlem Kaya
Duru Yavan
team:
Özlem Kaya
Duru Yavan
in partnership with:
Hafıza Merkezi
Hafıza Merkezi
with support of:
Stiftung Mercator
Video Interview with Verónica Vidal Degiorgis (Türkçe altyazılı)
Yaroslavna Sychenkova interviews with women/non-binary rights defenders from different parts of the world to ask their gendered experiences in the fields of human rights. Yaro's short interviews will cover human rights situations from Belarus to Zimbabwe, from Brazil to Sri Lanka and aim to deepen the discussion around the work of women human rights defenders globally and highlight their experience as women and non-binary in the field of human rights.The interviewee is Verónica Vidal Degiorgis, a feminist activist based in Mexico. She is the Solidarity Tactic Lead at the Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID). She is a long-term feminist activist for women's rights and human rights at the local level and internationally. She has worked as a researcher and advocate in Uruguay and Mexico with a focus on regional integration processes, international cooperation for development, the environment and civil society, as well as in building networks, documentation of attacks and developing protection approaches with Women Human Rights Defenders from a feminist perspective.
Video Interview with Lay Peng Pua
Lay Peng Pua is a chemist and woman human rights defender working on environmental protection in Malaysia. After moving back to her home town of Jenjarom a few years ago from Kuala Lumpur, she couldn’t believe the devastating impact recycling companies were having on her community. Like most people, she believed that plastic recycling industries were a green industry, but after China banned the import of plastic waste, a lot of recycling companies moved from there to Malaysia which very quickly became the number one world dumping site. She discovered that her village was surrounded by more then 40 illegal plastic factories emitting toxic gases which caused breathing problems and illnesses for her community's residents. The local council tried to play down the issue of pollution when they raised their voices. To try and bring further attention to the problem, Lay Peng and some community members started an investigation and captured video footage of the illegal recycling factories and burning of plastic which they uploaded to YouTube. So far they have succeeded in removing many of the illegal factories out of the area, but unfortunately some remain and the smuggling of plastic is still a big problem in the country. Lay Peng continues to work against the illegal importation of waste to Malaysia and to shine a light on the often hidden side to the global plastic waste industry.
Video Interview with Victoria Fedorova
Victoria Fedorova, Head of Legal Initiative - Belarusian Human Rights NGO, representative of International Committee for the investigation of torture in Belarus Victoria Fedorova, LL.M started work in the NGO "Legal Initiative" as a lawyer, was engaged in appealing human rights violations in courts and at the international level. The main topics: torture, inhuman conditions of detention, violation of the right to peaceful assembly. Currently, she coordinates the work of the organization's lawyers, engaged in international advocacy, coordinates the work of International Committee for the investigation of torture in Belarus.
Video Interview with Mary Lawlor
Ms. Mary Lawlor took up the mandate of Special Rapport on the situation of human rights defender on 1 May 2020, following the Human Rights Council decision 43/115.
Ms. Lawlor is currently an Adjunct Professor of Business and Human Rights in the Centre for Social Innovation (CSI), School of Business, Trinity College Dublin. She is a member of the Advisory Board of the School of Business.
She has worked extensively with and on the situation of human rights defenders.In 2001 she founded Front Line Defenders - the International Foundation for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders to concentrate on human rights defenders at risk. As Executive Director from 2001-2016, Ms. Lawlor represented Front Line Defenders and had a key role in its development.
Ms. Lawlor was previously the Director of the Irish Section of Amnesty International from 1988 to 2000, became a Board member in 1975 and was elected Chair from 1983 to 1987.
She has a BA in Philosophy and postgraduate degrees in Montessori Teaching and Personnel Management.
Ms. Lawlor is on the Advisory Board of the Centre for Ethics in Public Life, School of Philosophy, University College Dublin.
Video Interview with Shyamala Gomez
Shyamala Gomez is a human rights lawyer by training and has over twenty five years experience as an academic, researcher and activist. She has an LLB from the University of Colombo and a Masters in Law from Georgetown University, Washington DC. She has published in the areas of violence against women, masculinities, sexual violence in conflict, migrant workers rights, women’s land rights, reproductive rights and on women, peace and security.