Hosted by Unknown Host · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 126 episodes
Established thought leaders with verified media credentials.
A podcast featuring the people and ideas that are driving -and disrupting -human rights around the world. You can learn more about the project at our website, www.strengthandsolidarity.org. We welcome your feedback and your suggestions. In particular, if you have a poem or text, a speech, or a piece of music that expresses something important about your own commitment to rights, please tell us about it at pod@strengthandsolidarity.org.
Unknown Host hosts Strength & Solidarity, a society show with 126 episodes published.
Amid constant pressure to raise funds for short term objectives, and to achieve promised impact, human rights organisations can lose sight of the bigger picture and focus inward. Yet they are part of a community of actor
For ten years between 2003 and 2013, Chinese organizer Lu Jun worked to build a movement of advocacy and litigation to secure human rights. He first joined the fight against stigma attached to people with Hepatitis B tha
While Strength&Solidarity is on a break we’re taking the chance to re-up some favourite episodes. Back in December we featured an episode about North Korea – but with a twist. Beyond the ritual condemnations of egregious
While Strength&Solidarity is on a break we’re taking the chance to re-up some favourite episodes. Coda #24 featured criminal justice and human rights expert Chris Stone reading and reflecting on a poem by Seamus Heaney,
While Strength&Solidarity is on a break we’re taking the chance to re-up some favourite episodes. Last April, in Episode 51, I talked with Negin Shiraghaei , founder of Azadi Network , about her work to build a network f
Strength&Solidarity is taking a break and that gives us a chance to re-up some favourite episodes. Here’s Coda #3 in which US civil rights veteran Charles Cobb Jr looks back to 1963 and a chance meeting between some youn
It can sometimes seem as though fighting for queer rights in a hostile society is an unwinnable project. All too often, punitive laws, state violence, economic exclusion and social hostility are stacked against a communi
If you are one of the people feeling that things are not going to be all right, this one’s for you. Coda #46 comes from Bill McKibben , veteran climate change activist and founder of multiple campaigns and organisations
What’s your image of an activist? Someone in a bandanna facing down a line of cops? Or chaining themselves to a tree? You may well have imagined someone young because that’s the stereotype: the student ready to take on t
A young boy growing up in South Bend, Indiana, goes to the library every week with his mother and comes back with a brown grocery bag full of books. He doesn’t know it then, but it’s the start of a lifelong journey of in
The levels of stress and – at worst – burn-out in the human rights field are, anecdotally at least, at remarkably high levels. That may not be surprising in an era of rising authoritarianism, shrinking funds and expandin
These are stressful times for human rights activists where every day, a new development may cause despondency or rage. Feminist activist and campaigner Francoise Girard explains why you really need some seventeenth centu
The United States has gone, in less than six months, from being seen by many as a defender of democracy and human rights, to being the latest – and most powerful - administration to embrace authoritarianism. Amid a head-
What are the big takeaways from five years of conversation between 200 human rights leaders from nearly 70 countries? How did activism and solidarity get sidelined as vehicle for human rights work, in favour of the multi
Fleeing your country to avoid persecution is a deeply disruptive experience, whether it is the loss of contact with loved ones, being marginalized from the work or activism that gave you purpose, reckoning with the dange
When Venezuelan human rights lawyer Mario D’Andrea Canas, escaped from Venezuela last year, he could no longer glance up every morning at the mountain that towers over his beloved home city of Caracas. Nature’s grandeur
Passionate political debate is a cherished pastime in Nigeria. There’s a rich tradition of active participation too, whether it is in support of a favoured electoral candidate, or protesting against oppressive practices
Farah Abou El Sel recalls the mornings in her Lebanese childhood, when the silken, plangent voice of Fairuz could be heard in every street, welcoming the day. Farah grew up hearing and loving the songs without thinking m
In the quarter century since Iran’s Islamic revolution, thousands of Iranians have left their home to live in exile. Although they all have a country in common, that diaspora is hugely diverse – coming from different gen
When Burcu Meltem Arik first read Nazim Hikmet’s poem, The Walnut Tree, she exhaled with relief at its message. She reflects that nature has much to teach us - especially the value of community and connectedness for resi
Sponsor detection runs nightly. Check back soon.
No public pitch examples yet for this show.
Generate your own personalised pitchBased on semantic analysis of episode topics and host coverage, this show is a strong guest fit for executives in:
Industry fit is computed by PitchCentric using vector embeddings of the show's episode catalog.
Shows with the most semantically similar episode content. Pitch one, pitch all; producers cluster.
Strength & Solidarity has a verified contact on file. Create a free PitchCentric account to access it and generate a personalised pitch in seconds. Research at least 3 recent episodes first and lead with a specific angle that serves their society audience.
Strength & Solidarity is hosted by Unknown Host. The show is categorised under society (culture) and has published 126 episodes.
Strength & Solidarity has published 126 episodes.
Strength & Solidarity regularly covers society, culture. It sits in the society category, with a culture focus.
Strength & Solidarity is accessible for guests with genuine society expertise. A personalised, episode-aware pitch will still outperform a generic one every time.
Strength & Solidarity hasn't explicitly signalled guest openness in recent episodes. That doesn't rule out pitching. your hook just needs to be especially compelling and relevant to their recent content.
Episodes of Strength & Solidarity average 30 minutes. a focused format where a clear narrative arc and tight preparation matter most.
Our data rates Strength & Solidarity's guest bar at 80/100 (Premium tier). Established thought leaders with verified media credentials. Sign in to PitchCentric to see how your own Pod Score compares against this show.
Methodology. Booking Probability™ blends Listen Score, 30-day Virality, open-to-guests detection, and Apple ratings. Data refreshed every 60 minutes. Listen Score and Booking Probability are calculated by PitchCentric. Last enriched 10 days ago.
