Framing Human Rights is ECCHR’s Podcast on activism, art and justice. In our conversations, we discuss how to combine artistic and legal interventions to strengthen social movements. We also explore the powerful role of art in the global fight for justice.
Amira Tamim, Paula Zimmermann and Simin Jawabreh look at Germany´s interpretation of its “reason of state” in the context of Israel's ongoing war crimes in Gaza. What are the political, legal and societal ramifications of this, and what kinds of solidarity alliances are necessary to counter its repressive dimensions?
Only available in German.
This episode is about the debut novel *The Blood of the Dawn — La Sangre de la Aurora *by Claudia Salazar Jiménez. Salazar Jiménez and Karina Theurer discuss the enduring consequences of gender discrimination, using fiction as a tool for visibility and for sensitizing us to the suffering of others.
In this episode, curator and cultural historian Mark Sealy and Wolfgang Kaleck talk about the challenges of visual representation and different ways of dealing with photography produced in colonial and postcolonial contexts.
In this episode, we will look at several of Forensic Architecture’s investigations and working methodologies in Gaza, Germany, and Cameroon with architect and former deputy director of Forensic Architecture, Christina Varvia, and ECCHR General Secretary Wolfgang Kaleck.
Guatemalan visual artist Ixmucané Aguilar joins Wolfgang Kaleck, ECCHR general secretary, to discuss her documentary photography practice exploring the enduring effects of German colonialism in Namibia and the genocide against the Herero and Nama.
Lebanese performance and video artist Rabih Mroué speaks with Wolfgang Kaleck about his artistic practice and the impact of violent images for his work
In this episode, author Maaza Mengiste and artist and photographer Laura Fiorio sit down with Wolfgang Kaleck to talk about Italy's colonial history in Ethiopia.
Eyal Weizman, founding director of the research agency Forensic Architecture and its Berlin based sister agency Forensis, and ECCHR General Secretary Wolfgang Kaleck speak about the new joint initiative between Forensic Architecture, Forensis and ECCHR: Investigative Commons.
Bénédicte Savoy, Art historian and professor at the Technical University of Berlin discusses with ECCHR Secretary General Wolfgang Kaleck about the restitution of stolen colonial art and her criticism of the debate surrounding the Humboldt Forum in Berlin.
Writer, activist and ECCHR Advisory Board member Priya Basil sits down with ECCHR General Secretary Wolfgang Kaleck to talk about legacies of colonial and postcolonial injustice and German memory culture.
In this episode ECCHR’s Michael Bader and Sarah Imani, activist Mnyaka Sururu Mboro (Berlin Postkolonial) and curator and artist Anguezomo Nzé Mboulou Mba Bikoro discuss the posthumous right to human dignity, the importance of legal restitution, and creating a space for mourning.
Fred Ritchin, photographer and dean emeritus of the International Center of Photography, and ECCHR General Secretary Wolfgang Kaleck discuss the role graphic images have in photojournalism to raise political awareness.
