Podcast: Our Voices, Our Choices

This series hands the microphone to people whose voices don’t often get heard - people now making choices which don’t conform to laws or customs - or whose views have long been disregarded, even censored. Its about communities fighting for basic human rights and its about the diverse tools of their struggles. We discover how women are securing their rights through political protest, we look in detail at women’s reproductive rights and we go into LGBT communities worldwide.

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Economic empowerment and gender justice in the MENA region | Our Voices, Our Choices

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Can economic rights alone bring radical change for women? Activists tell how real economic empowerment is so much more than just jobs. It’s about dignity, power and daring to imagine.

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My love, my right! LGBT lives on a knife-edge | Our Voices, Our Choices

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LGBT rights worldwide are on a knife-edge. This podcast probes the states taking progressive leaps in LGBT rights alongside the many places where homosexuality is still illegal and transgender people are forced to lead double lives. We go to Brazil for a mass gay wedding hosted in response to the election of President Jair Bolsonaro.

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Women fight for reproductive rights | Our Voices, Our Choices

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Women and girls just want to have fundamental human rights! That’s what we hear in this podcast. Yet many states restrict their reproductive rights and regulate abortion alongside murder in their criminal codes.

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The power of female protest | Our Voices, Our Choices

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Global female protest is rocking the status quo. Unusually, it's mothers, daughters, even grandmothers coming together and discovering the power of protest, taking to the streets and to social media in unprecedented numbers. This is a podcast about women and their diverse tools of protest which are shifting mindsets and changing laws.