The Human Rights Podcast

The EU-Mercosur Agreement: A Human Rights Analysis (Episode 3)

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Episode 3: Interview with Juliana Sassi, a member of the Brazilian Left Front

In this episode, you can listen to Reshma Das and Simon Seitz, LLM candidates at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, and Saoirse McHugh, a member of Talamh Beo, talking to Juliana Sassi, a member of the Brazilian Left Front. She describes the development of the EU-Mercosur trade agreement from the viewpoint of the Mercosur countries. She also explains current politics in Brazil and the implications that ratification of EU-Mercosur will have on the environment and human rights.

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