We conclude the series with a powerful episode on memorialization in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The conversation explores how memorialization itself becomes a form of justice — preserving victims’ humanity, amplifying survivors’ voices, resisting genocide denial, and sustaining collective memory when legal justice remains incomplete.

It reflects on how remembrance can serve as both healing and resistance, ensuring that truth endures even where accountability falls short.

🎧 A closing reflection on memory, dignity, and the enduring pursuit of justice.

This episode explores how survivors and activists in Ireland are confronting institutional abuse through memorialization, legal action, education, and movement lawyering.

By preserving truth, demanding accountability, and challenging state denial of human rights violations, survivors are transforming remembrance into resistance and advocacy into lasting change.

The conversation highlights the power of collective action in the ongoing strugglefor justice, recognition, and human dignity.

A compelling discussion on memory, accountability, and the fight against silence.

This episode highlights how the Mukwege Foundation and its survivor-led Red Lineinitiative are advancing a holistic, rights-based response to conflict-relatedsexual violence.

By combining legal accountability, prevention, and survivor-centered support, theinitiative works to restore dignity, empower survivors, and strengthen pathwaysto justice that go beyond the courtroom.

The conversation explores how survivor leadership is reshaping advocacy,challenging impunity, and building more inclusive systems of care and justice.

A powerful discussion on dignity, resilience, and survivor-led change.

The series continues with a powerful episode exploring the Quipu Project and its workamplifying the voices of Peruvian women affected by forced sterilizations.

Through storytelling and listening, personal testimonies become acts of resistance — transforming individual experiences into collective memory, recognition, and a wider struggle for justice and dignity beyond victimhood.

This episode reflects on the power of survivors reclaiming their narratives and challenging silence through community, memory, and advocacy.

A moving conversation on voice, memory, and the fight for justice.

What happens when surviving enforced disappearance becomes the spark for a global fight for justice?

In the first episode of this series, Thomas Unger sits down with Ram Bhandari to explore how Ram’s experience of enforced disappearance in Nepal transformed into a lifelong commitment to human rights activism.

From survivor-led solidarity networks to the growing crisis of impunity and shrinking civic space worldwide, this conversation shines a light on the urgent need for collective, victim-centered pathways to justice — and the work of Inovas in making them possible.

A powerful conversation on resilience, solidarity, and the fight for accountability.

Sounds of Justice, the fourth series in the Global Campus “To the Righthouse” podcast programme, explores the deep and often surprising connections between music and human rights. Taking inspiration from The Routledge Companion to Music and Human Rights, it travels across genres, geographies and histories to look at the role of music in advancing empathy, solidarity, identity and resistance to injustice.

Aimed at music-makers, change-makers and anyone with an interest in music, social justice and the connections between them, Sounds of Justice is an invitation to listen afresh, to imagine anew and to be moved to action.

The series is hosted by Ignacio Saiz who designed it in collaboration with advisors Angela Impey and Julian Fifer. It brings together leading voices from across the music, social justice and human rights fields, including Manfred Nowak, George Ulrich, Shana Redmond, Rasika Ajotikar, Christina Hazboun, Rachel Harris, Mansoor Adayfi, César Rodríguez-Garavito and Rebecca Dirksen.

This episode explores how listening to the sounds of the more-than-human world – from forests to fungi, from whales to waterways – can help us reimagine our relationship to the earth we inhabit. It looks at the role of music in Indigenous and Afro-descendant understandings of ecology and struggles for environmental justice, including in Latin America and Haiti.

* Rebecca Dirksen

is Laura Boulton Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology at Indiana University and co-founder and current director of the Diverse Environmentalisms Research Team (DERT). Working in and around Haiti, Dirksen’s research priorities encompass sacred ecologies, environmental justice, and politically engaged music. She is the author of After the Dance, the Drums Are Heavy: Carnival, Politics, and Musical Engagement in Haiti (2020) and co-editor of Performing Environmentalisms: Expressive Culture and Ecological Change (2021).

* César Rodríguez-Garavito

is Professor of Law and Chair of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at NYU School of Law. He is the founding director of the Earth Rights Research & Action (TERRA) Clinic, the More-Than-Human Rights (MOTH) Program and the Climate Law Accelerator. An Earth rights and human rights scholar and a field lawyer, he focuses on climate change, international environmental law, Indigenous peoples’ rights and more-than-human rights.

This episode of the fourth series in the Global Campus “To the Righthouse” podcast programme explores how music has been used as an instrument of human rights abuse in different contexts, from torture and ill-treatment in US detention centers in Guantánamo to forced assimilation of Uyghurs in the Xinjiang Region in China. It also reveals how music can restore humanity and identity in the face of brutality and erasure.

* Mansoor Adayfi-441

is a Yemeni writer, activist, and former Guantánamo Bay detainee, imprisoned for nearly 15 years without charge. Since his release, he has become a committed advocate for human rights, highlighting the experiences of former detainees and the global consequences of the War on Terror. He is the author of Don’t Forget Us Here and the recently released Letter from Guantánamo. As the Guantánamo Project Coordinator at CAGE International, Mansoor co founded the Guantánamo Survivors Fund (GSF).

* Rachel Harris

is Professor of Ethnomusicology at SOAS, University of London. She has published extensively on music and religious practice in Central Asia, and the politics of ethnicity and heritage in China. Her latest book is Soundscapes of Uyghur Islam (Indiana University Press). Her current project, “Maqām Beyond Nation” (2023-2028) explores maqām-based music-making across Asia, connecting histories of mobility and exchange with contemporary flows of people and culture.

* Manfred Nowak

is Professor of International Human Rights Law at the University of Vienna and Secretary General of the Global Campus of Human Rights. Among many expert functions, he was UN Special Rapporteur on Torture (2004-2010).

This episode of Sounds of Justice highlights two contexts where music has long voiced struggles for justice and human rights.

From‘rebellious music gatherings’ spearheading the anti-caste movement in India to Palestinian songs of loss and resilience amid the rubble in Gaza, sonic strategies of resistance are helping to reclaim dignity, foster solidarity and spur accountability.

* Rasika Ajotikar

is an ethnomusicologist and singer based in Germany. Her research on anti-caste musical spheres in modern western India examines how music and sound operate as tools of emancipatory politics, underscoring musical labour,resistance, and state repression in the Indian caste society. As a singer, she continues collaborations with anti-caste artists and is also developing projects exploring improvisation, form, and the politics of sound.

* Christina Hazboun

is a writer, artist-researcher and practitioner in the spheres of text, sound, radio and music. Her chapter “Sonic Strategies in The Palestinian Struggle” appears in “BODIES OF SOUND: Becoming a Feminist Ear”. Her publications are scattered in the digital sphere, including Transcript Verlag, Bloomsbury (forthcoming) and she is regularly radio-active on Stegi Radio. She is the UK project manager of Keychange under PRS Foundation, a global movement aiming to increase gender diversity within the music industry.