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.
Liz Evenson, Human Rights Watch
Introducing Human Rights Watch and her perspectives on improving access to justice.
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
Ashfaq Khalfan, Director of Climate Justice, Oxfam USA
Will the courts save us from climate change? Can strategic litigation remove barriers to protecting climate?
Nani Jansen Reventlow, Systemic Justice
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?
Mary Lawlor, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders
Dr. Iva Vukusic, Utrecht University
How important are archives for justice? Also, understanding Serbian militias.
Olexandra Romantsova, Center for Civil Liberties
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?
Judge Professor Helen Keller, University of Zurich
What has the ECHR decided about climate change?
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)?
Ida Manton, expert on negotiation and mediation
What is negotiation and mediation? How to get involved in negotiations?
Dr. Miranda Melcher
Why research civil wars and how can we write better peace treaties to end them?
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?
Mirjam Herrmann, activist & Juanita van Lunen, lawyer
What are climate protests and what’s happening with them in Germany and the Netherlands?
Dana Rösiger, human rights photographer
Defending women's rights though sports and photography