The first conversation in this series features Prof Scott Burris of Temple University, Yaqiu Wang of Human Rights Watch, and Patrick Eba of UNAIDS exploring with Meg Davis the tough trade-offs countries are making in the race to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Right On Podcast, Ep 1: When the virus comes in the door, do human rights go out the window?

Criminalization and policing in the global COVID-19 response explored by human rights activists Edwin J. Bernard (HIV Justice Network), Felicita Hikuam (AIDS and Rights Alliance of Southern Africa), and Mikhail Golichenko, a Russian lawyer. Meg Davis moderates the discussion.

Right On Podcast, Ep 2: Can we police our way out of the pandemic?

Tina Alai (Kenyan human rights lawyer), Karyn Kaplan (Asia Catalyst), Margaret Mbira Omondi (Women Concerns Center, Kenya) and Prem Pramoj Na Ayutthaya (Rainbow Sky Association, Thailand) meet online to compare notes on how COVID-19 is fueling violence against women, from girls in evacuation camps in rural Kisumu, Kenya, to transgender women isolated in lockdown in urban Bangkok, Thailand.

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Right On 3. Violence against women

How are inequality and discrimination shaping data about COVID-19, and who is being left invisible and uncounted? On the launch of her new book on data and human rights, Sara (Meg) Davis speaks to social worker and rights activist Jolovan Wham in Singapore, who describes how thousands of migrant workers are being detained in overcrowded dorms, and were missed by the official mobile contact tracing app. In Geneva, Dr. Shirin Heidari (GENDRO) and Marina Smelyanskaya (Stop TB Partnership) address the global need for feminist principles and respect for human rights to gather data on COVID-19. Davis’ new book, The Uncounted: Politics of Data in Global Health is available from Cambridge University Press.

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Right On 4: Who will be left uncounted in data on COVID-19?

Why are we failing to end AIDS? Medical anthropologist Cal Biruk and human rights lawyer Kene Esom join Meg Davis and Ryan Whitacre for this specially recorded panel discussion for the American Anthropological Association conference, Raising Our Voices.

Why Are We Failing To End AIDS? A panel discussion

Recorded for the American Anthropological Association annual conference this episode explores anthropology and human rights with co-hosts Meg Davis and Ryan Whitacre, Prof. Cal Biruk and UNDP policy officer Kenechukwu Esom.

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