This will be the fifth and final episode of our Sports & Rights season. Over the course of this series, we've taken an in-depth look at what happens when the worlds of sports and human rights collide. We've brought you conversations with Olympians, activists, journalists, academics, and fans. We've tried to unpack some of the stickiest questions around the intersection of sports and human rights. 

This podcast season started just as the FIFA World Cup kicked off in Qatar, and perhaps appropriately it ended just as FIFA announced that Saudia Arabia will host the 2034 World Cup. If this tells us anything, it is that the questions we've been grappling with about sports and human rights aren't going away anytime soon.

But, to end the season on a more hopeful and uplifting note, we're bringing you a wonderful conversation "from the vault" – a Q&A with Enes Kanter Freedom, NBA player turned human rights activist. This conversation took place before a live audience at the 2022 Lantos Human Rights Prize ceremony in Washington, DC, when Kanter Freedom was awarded the Prize. He was interviewed by Lantos Foundation President Dr. Katrina Lantos Swett.

We hope you enjoy this conversation with an athlete who gave up everything to stand up for human rights.

 Highlights from the 2022 Lantos Human Rights Prize ceremony

Producers: Chelsea Hedquist, Brittany Smith 

Audio editor: Brittany Smith 

Music: Riorr by Audiorezout