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Tuesday Breakfast 10 December 2019 - Human Rights Day specialOn the show today with George, Anya, and Zoya7.00 am Acknowledgement of Country7.05 am News Headlines7.15 am The team discusses the origins of human rights day, the history of human rights and their effectiveness. The team also unpacks the issues of unequal access between states in the Global North and Global South. Our question is: if we genuinely wish to dismantle the imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy (a term coined by Bell Hooks), can this actually be done by a regime that is driven by western states and that homogenises the human experience?7.45 am Zoya chats to Sam Elkin, Victoria’s first dedicated LGBTIQ outreach lawyer about the queer rights movement and whether human rights frameworks provide protections for trans and gender diverse people in Australia 8.00 am George talks to Dr Niro Kandasamy,  a Tamil studies researcher at the University of Melbourne about her research on women with disabilities in Sri Lanak, the universality of human rights, and the importance of access to available legal mechanisms 8.15 am Anya chats to Robyn Oxley, proud Tharawal woman and assistant lecturer at the Monash Criminology department, about what an effective human rights framework looks like for Aboriginal people and how self-determination fits into it, and how such a framework clashes with the ideas of prisons and incarceration  Songssong: Solo le Pido a Dios - this song is about the military dictatorship in Argentinaartist: Mercedes Sosa song: Ain't Got No, I Got Lifeartist: Nina Simone song: Arrabi al Arabe  Artist: Mariem Hassan song: Yaz Gazeteci Yaz  Artist: Selda Bağcan