Insights from recent episode analysis
Audience Interest
Podcast Focus
Publishing Consistency
Platform Reach
Insights are generated by CastFox AI using publicly available data, episode content, and proprietary models.
Most discussed topics
Brands & references
Total monthly reach
Estimated from 1 chart position in 1 market.
By chart position
- 🇫🇮FI · Politics#3910K to 30K
- Per-Episode Audience
Est. listeners per new episode within ~30 days
5K to 15K🎙 Weekly cadence·72 episodes·Last published 7mo ago - Monthly Reach
Unique listeners across all episodes (30 days)
10K to 30K🇫🇮100% - Active Followers
Loyal subscribers who consistently listen
3K to 9K
Market Insights
Platform Distribution
Reach across major podcast platforms, updated hourly
Total Followers
—
Total Plays
—
Total Reviews
—
* Data sourced directly from platform APIs and aggregated hourly across all major podcast directories.
On the show
From 1 epsHosts
Not detected.
Recent guests
Recent episodes
Interview with Singaporian HRD Lawyer Ravi Madasamy: the death penalty, being disbarred, and more.
Nov 14, 2025
18m 37s
Roots of Resistance: Indigenous Women Defending Human Rights and Reimagining Power in Africa
Jul 4, 2025
35m 41s
All about Digital Rights with Mona Shtaya
Feb 5, 2025
49m 40s
Talia Khattak: Daughter of Imprisoned and Forcibly Disappeared human rights defender Idris Khattak, Speaks.
Dec 11, 2024
23m 17s
Georgia’s Foreign Influence Transparency Bill: realities on the ground
Oct 11, 2024
29m 02s
Social Links & Contact
Official channels & resources
Official Website
Login
RSS Feed
Login
| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11/14/25 |  Interview with Singaporian HRD Lawyer Ravi Madasamy: the death penalty, being disbarred, and more.✨ | human rightsdeath penalty+3 | Ravi Madasamy | Anti‐Death Penalty Asia NetworkSingapore Anti‐Death Penalty | Singapore | human rights lawyerdeath penalty+3 | — | 18m 37s | |
| 7/4/25 |  Roots of Resistance: Indigenous Women Defending Human Rights and Reimagining Power in Africa | Send us Fan Mail Indigenous women human rights defenders in Africa face unique challenges, from standing up to patriarchal norms and fighting land grabs by extractive industries, to resisting the gendered impacts of climate change and forced evictions- In this episode, we chat to two indigenous women human rights defenders - Janepher Baitwamasa from Uganda, and Ilaria Potipa Loonkolia from Kenya, both of whom organise for women’s rights, land rights and access to justice within their co... | 35m 41s | ||||||
| 2/5/25 |  All about Digital Rights with Mona Shtaya | Send us Fan Mail Mona Shtaya is a pioneering digital rights defender with more than a decade of experience. Her advocacy and campaigning has resulted in exposing digital discrimination against oppressed people, building coalitions, and mobilising groups to hold governments and tech giants accountable. In this episode she talks about: - What it means to be a digital rights defender (1:00 +) - Challenges in the digital space in the MENA region (4:00 +) - The (mis)use of laws to criminalise HRDs... | 49m 40s | ||||||
| 12/11/24 |  Talia Khattak: Daughter of Imprisoned and Forcibly Disappeared human rights defender Idris Khattak, Speaks. | Send us Fan Mail Idris Khattak, a Pakistani human rights defender, was forcibly disappeared 5 years ago. He was, and remains, a single father of 2 daughters. For almost two years after his disappearance, they had no clue about his whereabouts, worried about his safety and whether he was alive. Authorities eventually revealed that he was being held in Military custody under the Official Secrets Act (OSA), a law aimed at protecting information held by government employees. He was tried and wro... | 23m 17s | ||||||
| 10/11/24 |  Georgia’s Foreign Influence Transparency Bill: realities on the ground | Send us Fan Mail In this multi-episode series, we take a look at the use of laws in Europe and Central Asia criminalising funding received by human rights organisations from foreign sources. In Georgia, Parliament adopted the ‘’Transparency of Foreign Influence’’ bill in May 2024. The Georgian government has already starting listing organisations as foreign agents. We chat to Nona Kurdovanidze from the Georgian Young Lawyers Association to find out how the re-introduction of this law has bee... | 29m 02s | ||||||
| 8/21/24 |  Interview with Raji Sourani, founder of PCHR | Send us Fan Mail Raji is human rights lawyer and defender from Gaza who leads a core team at the PCHR, documenting and investigating human rights violations committed under the Israeli occupation. The PCHR have contributed to important international cases at the ICJ and ICC.Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/frontlinedefenders/ | 52m 41s | ||||||
| 7/1/24 |  #RejectFinanceBill protests in Kenya: Human rights defender testimony | Send us Fan Mail Why have Kenyan human rights defenders been protesting? What have the consequences of their human rights work during the protests been? Listen to a human rights defender on the ground in Kenya share their perspective on why they are peacefully protesting, as well as how they have been targeted and harassed during this time.Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/frontlinedefenders/ | 15m 09s | ||||||
| 6/6/24 |  Interview with Doris Kathia | Send us Fan Mail Doris is a woman human rights defender working on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) for over a decade, advocating for the rights of women, girls, and marginalized communities in Kenya and beyond. She talks about the challenges and successes of her work as a human rights defender: the difficult context for SRHR, LGBTIQ+ and womens rights work in Kenya, in a society that has alot of stigma and resistance to advancing these various areas of human rights work. Dori... | 34m 31s | ||||||
| 3/8/24 |  Francisca Fernández Droguett | Send us Fan Mail "Francisca Fernández Droguett: el ciberespionaje de personas defensoras en Chile por una empresa extractiva privada". Conversamos con la defensora chilena, integrante del Movimiento por el Agua y los Territorios - MAT, sobre el ciberespionaje al que ella y otras personas defensoras de derechos humanos que protestan en contra del proyecto hidroeléctrico Alto Maipo en Chile, fueron sometidos. Francisca Fernández Droguett nos cuenta en este último episodio en español de nuestro... | 29m 23s | ||||||
| 2/2/24 |  Interview with Tara Houska | Send us Fan Mail Tara Houska is a citizen of Couchiching First Nation, a tribal attorney, land defender, environmental and Indigenous rights defender. She is the founder of the Giniw Collective, an Indigenous women, two-spirit-led frontline resistance to defend the sacred and live in balance. Tara Houska has been active in resisting the Line 3 oil pipeline, the Dakota Access pipeline, and is involved in the movement to reclaim Land Back and in defunding fossil fuels. We chat to her about her ... | 56m 27s | ||||||
Want analysis for the episodes below?Free for Pro Submit a request, we'll have your selected episodes analyzed within an hour. Free, at no cost to you, for Pro users. | |||||||||
| 10/17/23 |  In conversation with Mary Lawlor - 25 years of the Declaration on Human Rights Defenders | Send us Fan Mail Mary Lawlor, the founder of Front Line Defenders, is currently the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders. This year marked 25 years of the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders. Mary shares invaluable insights into the achievements for human rights defenders over the last 25 years, how the landscape has changed and evolved in terms of the protection of HRDs. She also shares her story of how Front Line Defenders came into being, and special moments she has had thr... | 1h 02m 41s | ||||||
| 10/11/23 |  Civilian Hostages in Ukraine - Interview with Media Initiative for Human Rights | Send us Fan Mail We chat to the Media initiative for human rights, a prominent Ukrainian human rights organization working on the topic of civilian hostages, political prisoners and prisoners of war. Their recent investigation looked at secret prisons in Russia and Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine where civilian hostages from Ukraine are kept together with prisoners of war, subjected to torture and ill-treatment, all in violation of international humanitarian law. Media initiative for ... | 39m 44s | ||||||
| 7/17/23 |  Salah Hammouri: the cost of activism in Palestine and the revocation of his residency | Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Salah tells us about how his upbringing inspired his human rights work, what the revocation of his residency means and other tactics being used to silence human rights defenders in Palestine. He gives us insights to the inhumane tactics which Israeli authorities use to break the spirit of political prisoners, systemic neglect of healthcare in prison, his own experience of hunger strikes in prison and more.Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fron... | 26m 42s | ||||||
| 3/16/23 |  Situation for Syrian Human Rights Defenders in the Aftermath of the Earthquake | Send us Fan Mail Hiba sheds light on the situation for human rights defenders in Syria in the aftermath of the recent earthquake - expressing how HRDs have been detained and harassed by authorities for speaking out about the corruption with humanitarian aid to Syrians, as well as how WHRDs have been absurdly blamed for the earthquake.Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/frontlinedefenders/ | 22m 50s | ||||||
| 2/20/23 |  In the valleys of Kathmandu: the story of the Newa Guthi people through Bidya Shrestha Maharjan | Send us Fan Mail A special storytelling episode - follow Bidya Shrestha Maharjan's story with sound effects as she narrates her story of being a woman human rights defender and defending the rights of the Newa Guthi indigenous people.Bidya is a teacher by profession, as well as the women’s president of the World Newa Guthi, an indigenous community organization. Bidya has long been leading the movement to stop illegal road expansions in the valley of her hometown. She has been threatened sever... | 15m 24s | ||||||
| 12/5/22 |  Interview with HRD Prof. Colin Harvey on defending human rights in Northern Ireland | Send us Fan Mail We hear from HRD Prof. Colin Harvey on advocating for human rights in Northern Ireland, and what a united Ireland means to him in the context of human rights. He also shares his experiences being targeted and harassed as a human rights defender for his work over the last few years.Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/frontlinedefenders/ | 37m 02s | ||||||
| 11/25/22 |  Violence against women in #Nigeria: in conversation with the African Girls Empowerment Network (AGE) | Send us Fan Mail AGE networks Matina Ebri (Head, Administrator), Esther Odiong (Finance Officer) and Margeret Oyigeya (Operation officer) share the challenges they face in their work advocating for womens rights, the nuances of advocating for womens rights within a patriarchal society, and their own experiences and stories as women regarding the work they carry out at AGE network in Nigeria.Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/frontlinedefenders/ | 1h 01m 49s | ||||||
| 11/2/22 |  First hand account: HRD Hafez Huraini attacked and harassed by Israeli settlers and authorities. | Send us Fan Mail We hear from Palestinian land rights defender Hafez Huraini, a farmer from at-Tuwani village in Masafer Yatta, Hebron, Occupied Palestinian Territory. He speaks about the context of Masafer Yatta, and his most recent experience being brutally assaulted and harassed by settlers and Israeli authorities on his own land.Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/frontlinedefenders/ | 9m 37s | ||||||
| 6/22/22 |  Olena Shevchenko on the war and situation for lgbtqi+ defenders in #Ukraine | Send us Fan Mail On this episode of rights on the line, we talk to Olena Schevchenko, the chairperson of Insight, an NGO that focuses on promoting and protecting the rights of LGBTQI + persons in Ukraine. This year, amidst a crisis of war, pride month was different for LGBTIQ defenders in Ukraine. While Olena and Insight would usually be organising pride events around this time, this year they are providing support and protection to the LGBTQI+ community during the war in Ukraine. Olena shar... | 33m 32s | ||||||
| 3/25/22 |  Abahlali baseMjondolo on the recent killings of their HRD leaders | Send us Fan Mail Abahlali baseMjondolo is a grassroots movement of poor shack dwellers in Durban and other parts of South Africa, advocating for the rights of people living in shacks, including access to decent housing, services and education. Since their inception, leaders of the fast growing movement – with a member base of up to 100,000 – have been targeted and sadly, killed. In the last two weeks, two leaders were again murdered, bringing the number of HRDs killed in the movement to over ... | 26m 58s | ||||||
| 2/4/22 |  Land/environmental rights defenders and the data gap: reporting and realities | Send us Fan Mail Season 4, episode1:Gaps in state-reported data on land and environmental rights defenders negatively and severely impacts the ability to monitor and mitigate situations where human rights defenders are at risk.In 2020, Front Line Defenders reported that 331 human rights defenders were killed, 69% being land and environmental rights defenders. But, Official data on killings remain limited, while there is even less data on physical and other types of lethal attacks on defenders... | 35m 03s | ||||||
| 11/10/21 |  NSO Group’s Pegasus Spyware hack on Palestinan HRDs - explained by DPC Mohammad Al-Maskati | Send us Fan Mail Topics covered: - How the situation unfolded since the suspicion of an initial hack and breach- How the announcement of the 6 organisations deemed as‘’terrorist’’ linked to the unfolding investigation- Who NSO Group is and what Pegasus is- How the devices were confirmed to be infected, and what happens when spyware is installed on a device- Recommendations on the situation and what the international community can do.Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/frontline... | 14m 14s | ||||||
| 9/28/21 |  Digital Rights in Africa: HRD experiences, challenges and solutions | Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we talk about human rights defenders in Africa experiencing challenges in the digital space, on social media platforms and more. Ronald shares his insights as the Digital Protection Coordinator for the Africa region at Front Line Defenders, as well as very NB tips on how HRDs can protect themselves in the Digital space. Abdifatah, and HRD from Digital Shelter in Somalia, talks about a recently released report by Digital Shelter on how HRDs in Somalia and Afri... | 1h 05m 19s | ||||||
| 8/10/21 |  48 hours: countdown to Zambia's national elections | Send us Fan Mail Zambias national elections will be held on the 12th of August 2021. This comes against a dangerous background of the country veering towards dangerous authoritarianism. Human rights defenders (HRDs) in Zambia face arrests, violent threats, intimidation tactics, surveillance, and smear campaigns as the government persecutes civil society and challenges the legitimacy of HRDs who speak out against the crack down on freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of as... | 1h 16m 20s | ||||||
| 7/6/21 |  The cost of saving lives in the Mediterranean Sea | Send us Fan Mail Front Line Defenders Rights on the Line podcast, presenting the voices, perspectives and experiences of human rights and human rights defenders (HRDs) across the globe. In this episode, we chat to two HRDs who were a part of the SEA-EYE 4 ship crew, which rescued 408 people from five different refugee boats in distress in May 2021. Sophie Weidenhiller is from the German NGO Sea-Eye, who works for the rescue of fleeing people in the central Mediterranean Sea. Sara Cincurova is... | 58m 02s | ||||||
Showing 25 of 72
Pitch Fit is a Pro feature
See how bookable this show is for guests, which brands already advertise, the per-episode ad value, and the best-fit guest and sponsor profile. The numbers are blurred on the free plan.
How readily this show books outside guests like you.
How proven this show is for host-read sponsorships.
For Guests
ProFor Advertisers
ProUpgrade to Pro to unlock guest cadence, sponsor categories, fit scores, and per-episode ad value for this show.
Chart Positions
2 placements across 1 market.
Chart Positions
2 placements across 1 market.