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 (20090221)
This week on The State Were In... A prominent Chinese ...
This week on The State Were In... A prominent Chinese human rights lawyer disappears. We talk to a fellow lawyer about human rights work in China. In many parts of the world people don't have the right to drugs they need to survive. Employers are spying on their employees. We find out why.
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The State We're In (20090214)
This week in The State Were In, as unemployment grows ...
This week in The State Were In, as unemployment grows around the world, we look at the right to work locally versus the right to migrate for jobs. Our theme this week is the right to escape your past. And we ask whether we should have the right to send objects into orbit and leave them there.
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The State We're In (20090207)
This week on The State Were In, we talk to ...
This week on The State Were In, we talk to a documentary maker whose film on child soldiers in Congo. We also discuss the right to own pets, and we consider whether rules for airplane security are overly strict or simply necessary.
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The State We're In (20090131)
This week on The State Were In an aspiring Somali ...
This week on The State Were In an aspiring Somali pirate tells us why he feels he has the right to hijack ships. People in Zimbabwe and Argentina explain why they should have a right to objective television coverage. And we look at mental health in Gaza.
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The State We're In (20090124)
This week on The State Were In, we look at ...
This week on The State Were In, we look at new regulations in the US regarding the rights of conscience for health care workers, the right to refuse, and the dangers of defending rights in Russia.
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The State We're In (20090117)
This week on The State Were In, we look at ...
This week on The State Were In, we look at the right to access for the disabled, architecture and human rights, a prison in Australia designed on the basis of human rights, and language and politics in Sri Lanka.
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The State We're In (20090110)
Divided families in the programme this week. We look at ...
Divided families in the programme this week. We look at the right to free movement for Cubans, meet a family divided between Gaza and the West Bank, and meet a mother who was sentenced to three years in prison, while her children were left to fend for themselves.
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The State We're In (20090103)
In this special edition of The State Were In, we ...
In this special edition of The State Were In, we speak to human rights defenders from across the globe, including Uzbekistan, Burma, Congo, Brazil and Iran. And we present a portrait of the British lawyer, Clive Stafford Smith.
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The State We're In (20081227)
This week on The State Were In... another chance to ...
This week on The State Were In... another chance to hear some of the best pieces of 2008, including The Right to Silence, The Right to Sex and one of our favourite interviews, featuring Geert van Kesteren, author of Baghdad Calling, a book that depicts life in wartime Iraq through cell phone pictures.
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The State We're In (20081220)
We ask if there is a right to a functioning ...
We ask if there is a right to a functioning government, with a look at the total collapse of government services in Zimbabwe. Then, the right to reproduce: we hear from a woman who was forced to have an abortion in China. And we discuss the protection of children with two South African women who run a home for abused young people.
