The State We're In
Hosted by Jonathan Groubert, the programme explores global events by talking to people directly affected. The focus is on human rights in the broadest sense of the term
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The State We're In (20090905)
This week on TSWI, a Labor Day special on the ...
This week on TSWI, a Labor Day special on the right to a good boss. With stories from the United States, Canada, Argentina, Italy and South Korea. From the worst to the best, to having no boss at all.
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The State We're In (20090529)
This week on The State Were In... a former St. ...
This week on The State Were In... a former St. Petersburg cop, now journalist, tells us just how dangerous the Russian police have become. And we speak with a victim of Russian police brutality who is trying to take his attackers to court. We ask if there's a right to silence with stories from the U.S. Britain and India. In our occasional series on dilemmas, a professor of philosophy tells us what he did when, the day he was giving a lesson on the meaning of tolerance, a student walked in shrouded from head to toe in a Burqa. And 21-year-old Nathan Royle from Adelaide, Australia explains he came to realize he was 'asexual'.
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The State We're In
This week on The State Were In an American primary ...
This week on The State Were In an American primary care doctor tells us how insurance companies chased her out of the business. Is there a right to a childhood? A Zimbabwean orphan tells us about how she became head of her household when she was 12 and former child actor and Mouseketeer Paul Peterson expounds on his fight for the rights of child performers. And we meet Azim Khamisa whos only son had been killed by a 14 year old gang initiate. Azim dedicated the rest of his life to teaching forgiveness and trying to rescue children like his sons killer from gang violence.
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The State We're In (20090815)
With Charles Taylor facing charges in The Hague of war ...
With Charles Taylor facing charges in The Hague of war crimes committed in Sierra Leone, we talk to a man who lived through the horrors of that war - and makes a journey to The Hague to see the man whose very voice still makes him shake with fear and outrage.
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The State We're In
This week on The State Were In...we look at how ...
This week on The State Were In...we look at how film and TV can help bring war victims together. Just in time for summer, we ask if there's a right to be naked! And can you be Muslim and gay? We investigate.
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The State We're In (20090801)
This week, a special edition of The State We're In: ...
This week, a special edition of The State We're In: the right to bike around the world. We compare life in the bike lane in two cities: San Francisco and Amsterdam. We also hear from a man for whom having a bike is a matter of life and death -- he's a bicycle ambulance driver for his village in Uganda. And we talk to a committed cyclist in Manhattan who lost twenty bikes to thieves and reached a point where he became an unwitting bike thief himself.
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The State We're In (20090725)
Hosted by Jonathan Groubert, the programme explores global events by ...
Hosted by Jonathan Groubert, the programme explores global events by talking to people directly affected. The focus is on human rights in the broadest sense of the term.
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The State We're In (20090718)
This week on The State Were In... a former Somali ...
This week on The State Were In... a former Somali pirate tells us why he took to the seas. We ask if there's a right to make yourself beautiful with a report on cheap plastic surgery in Brazil and an 'ugly club' in Italy. And we hear of a little known minority in Sri Lanka called the Kaffirs.
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The State We're In (20090711)
This week on The State Were In...we speak with the ...
This week on The State Were In...we speak with the organiser of non-profit casino and ask if there's a right to gamble. Plus, is there a right to proselytise? A Southern Baptist from Lebanon does it every chance he gets. But a former Catholic priest turned Muslim says it's better to speak and live as an example. And we meet Ariane Sherine who sparked a movement that placed anti-religious advertisements all over the world.
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The State We're In (20090704)
This week on The State We're In, we look at ...
This week on The State We're In, we look at independence. The Kurds are the world's largest ethnic group without a homeland. Should their fight for independence go on? We meet the Prince of an independent nation located on a platform off the coast of England, and we hear the story of a young woman escaping slavery.
