Songs can express meaning and emotion more effectively and profoundly than just words. Music has and continues to be a means to facilitate needed change.
Human Rights Radio was created as a means to compile, share, and educate about songs that help us change the world to be more rights respecting. Each song we feature on the website includes a detailed discussion of the song’s relation to human rights and is featured on one playlist.
There are playlists related to Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; Social Justice, Human Rights Economy and Inequalities; Civil Rights, Participation and Freedom of Expression; Cultural Rights and Cultural Identities; Environmental and Climate Justice; Rights of Refugees and Migrants; Children’s Rights; Women’s Rights, LGBTQ+ Rights, & Gender Equality; Right to Self-Determination & Right to Development; Right to Peace; the Peace Album.
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Please consider submitting a playlist, a song, or a group of songs.
While many of the songs are in English, fifteen languages are already represented on the website. We would like to feature at least one song in every language on Human Rights Radio.
The website is accessible in English, Spanish, Arabic, French, Chinese, Russian, and German. Please go to the tab at the upper right side to click on the language.
HRE USA is a project of the Center for Transformative Action.