Docudays UA and Radio Skovoroda present the second season of the RIGHTS NOW! podcast. You will hear the recordings of events from the RIGHTS NOW! Human Rights Programme and the Living Library. These are five conversations about overcoming the consequences of Russian Aggression and their impact on our future. The events took place during the twenty-first Docudays UA International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival.
Docudays UA and Radio Skovoroda have launched the second season of the RIGHTS NOW! podcast. These are recordings of five events from the RIGHTS NOW! Human Rights Programme and the Living Library which took place during the 21st Docudays UA International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival.
Episodes of the Rights Now! podcast will come out every week on all digital platforms (SoundCloud, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts). In these episodes, prominent experts will discuss the support for Ukraine abroad, new global security models, unlearned lessons of history, and the Ukrainian identity.
The first audio recording of the conversation Our support abroad: How to convince the world to continue helping Ukraine is already available to listen.
The guests at the event are Oleksandra Matviychuk and Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2022; Oksana Karpovych, director of the film Intercepted; and Natalia Panchenko, producer and activist. The speakers discuss how to inspire and unite the public and active people from other countries to give more support to Ukraine. The conversation is moderated by Anhelina Kariakina, journalist and documentary filmmaker.
In the next episode, Living next to a terrorist state: How can Ukraine stand its ground, Yulia Tymoshenko, an interviewer and the host of a series of visionary interviews by Ukraїner, clarifies the role which Ukraine is going to play in rebuilding the global security model. Pavlo Klimkin, Ukrainian diplomat and Head of the Ukrainian MFA in 2014–2019; and Oleksandr Musiyenko, military political expert, Head of the Military Legal Research Centre share their thoughts on the subject.
The third episode of the podcast is the conversation Working for the future despite the war: How to develop human potential. Journalist Sofiia Sereda moderates a conversation between Valeriy Pekar, an economist and lecturer at Kyiv-Mohyla Business School and Lviv UCU Business School, with Oleksandr Gladun, Deputy Director of the M. Ptukha Institute of Demographics and Social Research. The experts discuss how education and state institutions as well as private businesses need to change in order to meet the challenges of wartime and postwar economy to the best of their ability.
In the fourth episode, Ten years of the war that has been going on for three centuries: What historic lessons Ukraine and the world must learn, the TV host and blogger Yana Brenzey has a dialogue with the publicist and writer Vitaliy Portnikov.
The podcast will conclude with a conversation from the Living Library event series. The Living Library involves public moderated conversations in which the “books” are prominent experts, artists, veterans united by the experience of fighting for the preservation and restoration of the Ukrainian national identity. For the podcast, we have picked the conversation Return what we have lost: Ukrainian identity of the East. Over the years of the occupation of the Donetsk and Luhansk Regions, Ukraine has lost significant cultural layers and values. How do we return the identity and values denied by the myths of Soviet and Russian propaganda to the East and its residents? This question is considered by Oleksiy Mustafin, publicist, historian and media manager; and Maksym Vikhrov, journalist and writer. The conversation is moderated by Yevhen Pavliukovskyi. You can watch all the conversations of the Living Library in the DOCUSPACE Online Cinema.
The RIGHTS NOW! Human Rights Programme takes place every year as part of the Docudays UA Film Festival. It is a platform for human rights advocates, representatives of the government and the public sector, and independent experts to discuss relevant questions.
