On this episode, Ken Roth, the previous government director of Human Rights Watch, interviews Varsha Gandikota-Nellutla on how a lot the International South has influenced the world order and whether or not it could truly exert any stress on the worldwide stage.
Varsha Gandikota-Nellutla is the final coordinator for Progressive Worldwide, a suppose tank working to unite, organise and mobilise progressive forces world wide.
She’s additionally one of many founders and the chief secretary of the Hague Group, a coalition of countries from the International South fashioned in January 2025 to uphold the rulings of the Worldwide Court docket of Justice and the Worldwide Prison Court docket relating to Israel-Palestine, and “stand collectively to defend the ideas of justice, equality and human rights”.
Among the many collective measures the group has taken is to shut their ports to ships carrying weapons or gasoline to Israel and decide to honour worldwide arrest warrants.
