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Rights on the Line is an exclusive human rights podcast produced by Front Line Defenders, presenting the voices, perspectives and experiences of human rights defenders (HRDs) at risk and focusing on human rights issues across the globe.
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Signup to Generate a PitchRights on the Line is an exclusive human rights podcast produced by Front Line Defenders, presenting the voices, perspectives and experiences of human rights defenders (HRDs) at risk and focusing on human rights issues across the globe.
Rights on the Line is hosted by Front Line Defenders. The show has published 72 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Interview with Singaporian HRD Lawyer Ravi Madasamy: the death penalty, being disbarred, and more." (14 November 2025, 19 minutes), "Roots of Resistance: Indigenous Women Defending Human Rights and Reimagining Power in Africa" (4 July 2025, 36 minutes), and "All about Digital Rights with Mona Shtaya" (5 February 2025, 50 minutes).
Rights on the Line publishes roughly every few months, with episodes averaging 34 minutes across 72 episodes.
Booking probability for Rights on the Line is 33%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Rights on the Line requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Rights on the Line's contact route on record: verified email.
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Front Line Defenders hosts Rights on the Line, a news podcast with 72 episodes published.
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Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we chat to Ravi Madasamy, better known as M. Ravi, an international human rights lawyer in Singapore, who was recently disbarred as a result of his human rights work. He has argued in...
Episode #2
Send us Fan Mail Indigenous women human rights defenders in Africa face unique challenges, from standing up to patriarchal norms and fighting land grabs by extractive industries, to resisting the gendered impacts of...
Episode #1
Send us Fan Mail Mona Shtaya is a pioneering digital rights defender with more than a decade of experience. Her advocacy and campaigning has resulted in exposing digital discrimination against oppressed people, building...
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Send us Fan Mail Idris Khattak, a Pakistani human rights defender, was forcibly disappeared 5 years ago. He was, and remains, a single father of 2 daughters. For almost two years after his disappearance, they had no...
Episode #4
Send us Fan Mail In this multi-episode series, we take a look at the use of laws in Europe and Central Asia criminalising funding received by human rights organisations from foreign sources. In Georgia, Parliament...
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Send us Fan Mail Raji is human rights lawyer and defender from Gaza who leads a core team at the PCHR, documenting and investigating human rights violations committed under the Israeli occupation. The PCHR have...
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Send us Fan Mail Why have Kenyan human rights defenders been protesting? What have the consequences of their human rights work during the protests been? Listen to a human rights defender on the ground in Kenya share...
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Send us Fan Mail Doris is a woman human rights defender working on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) for over a decade, advocating for the rights of women, girls, and marginalized communities in Kenya and...
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Send us Fan Mail "Francisca Fernández Droguett: el ciberespionaje de personas defensoras en Chile por una empresa extractiva privada". Conversamos con la defensora chilena, integrante del Movimiento por el Agua y los...
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Send us Fan Mail Tara Houska is a citizen of Couchiching First Nation, a tribal attorney, land defender, environmental and Indigenous rights defender. She is the founder of the Giniw Collective, an Indigenous women...
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Send us Fan Mail Mary Lawlor, the founder of Front Line Defenders, is currently the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders. This year marked 25 years of the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders. Mary shares...
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Send us Fan Mail We chat to the Media initiative for human rights, a prominent Ukrainian human rights organization working on the topic of civilian hostages, political prisoners and prisoners of war. Their recent...
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Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Salah tells us about how his upbringing inspired his human rights work, what the revocation of his residency means and other tactics being used to silence human rights defenders in...
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Send us Fan Mail Hiba sheds light on the situation for human rights defenders in Syria in the aftermath of the recent earthquake - expressing how HRDs have been detained and harassed by authorities for speaking out...
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Send us Fan Mail A special storytelling episode - follow Bidya Shrestha Maharjan's story with sound effects as she narrates her story of being a woman human rights defender and defending the rights of the Newa Guthi...
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Send us Fan Mail We hear from HRD Prof. Colin Harvey on advocating for human rights in Northern Ireland, and what a united Ireland means to him in the context of human rights. He also shares his experiences being...
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Send us Fan Mail AGE networks Matina Ebri (Head, Administrator), Esther Odiong (Finance Officer) and Margeret Oyigeya (Operation officer) share the challenges they face in their work advocating for womens rights, the...
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Send us Fan Mail We hear from Palestinian land rights defender Hafez Huraini, a farmer from at-Tuwani village in Masafer Yatta, Hebron, Occupied Palestinian Territory. He speaks about the context of Masafer Yatta, and...
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Send us Fan Mail On this episode of rights on the line, we talk to Olena Schevchenko, the chairperson of Insight, an NGO that focuses on promoting and protecting the rights of LGBTQI + persons in Ukraine. This year...
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Send us Fan Mail Abahlali baseMjondolo is a grassroots movement of poor shack dwellers in Durban and other parts of South Africa, advocating for the rights of people living in shacks, including access to decent housing...
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