Miranda is a senior legal fellow and podcast host for the Just Access NGO

She interviews legal experts, academics and human rights advocates about the future of human rights and improving access to justice for all. Our motto is “Everyone can be a human rights defender!”

Interviewees bring unique and important perspectives to understand the current state of human rights, where and why justice is lacking, and offer ideas for how we can all help.

Professor Fernand de Varennes, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues (former)

How are minority rights under threat? How can minority rights be better protected?

Dunja Mijatovic, Commissioner for Human Rights for the Council of Europe (outgoing)

Status of human rights in Europe

Judge Professor Helen Keller, University of Zurich

What has the ECHR decided about climate change?

Nani Jansen Reventlow, Systemic Justice

Systemic Justice, digital rights, and strategic litigation

Yasmina Gourchane, Coalition for the International Criminal Court

How does the CICC support the International Criminal Court and victims voices?

Kathryne Bomberger, International Commission on Missing Persons

How did Missing Persons become a human rights issue? Why do people go missing and how can we help?

Andreas Schüller, European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights

How can NGOs help protect constitutional and human rights? How are rights and access to justice in and into Europe being contested?

Andrea James, National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls

How to protect incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women & girls?

Dr. Iva Vukusic, Utrecht University

How important are archives for justice? Also, understanding Serbian militias.

Olexandra Romantsova, Center for Civil Liberties

How are war crimes being documented in Ukraine?

Mirjana Lazarova-Trajkovska, Supreme Court of North Macedonia

How to curb corruption? What is the future of the International Criminal Court?

Marina Aksenova, IE University Madrid

How can we expand international law?

Stay tuned for what’s next!

Dr. Virginie Collombier and Dr. Wolfram Lacher

Discussing Violence and Social Transformation in Libya, what might the future of Libya look like?

Dr. Stacey Philbrick Yadav, Hobart and William Smith Colleges

What is, and what has, happened in Yemen’s conflict(s)?

Dr. Kate Cronin-Furman, University College London

How do actors resist accountability and accusations of hypocrisy after atrocities?

Phil Lynch, International Service for Human Rights

What does the International Service for Human Rights (ISHR) do? How can human rights defenders be supported?

Janet Anderson and Stephanie van den Berg, Asymmetrical Haircuts podcast

Behind-the-scenes with Asymmetrical Haircuts! What have you learned from the project?

Wassem & Nourfan, Maat for Peace

What is it like to be young women on the frontline of human rights defense?

Amy Kaslow

How to Tell a Post-Conflict Story?