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 (20081213)
This week on The State Were In, we look at ...
This week on The State Were In, we look at the rights of the body in respect to organ donation. Then we ask if there is a right to wear whatever you want, with a Kenyan MP fighting to wear traditional clothes in Parliament. And, the right to be warm for survivors of the Sichuan earthquake in China.
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The State We're In 20081206
This week we mark the 60th anniversary of the Universal ...
This week we mark the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. We talk with musician Angelique Kidjo about how she uses music to spread the importance of human rights. And we look at the intersection of technology and human rights.
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The State We're In (20081129)
This week on The State Were In, we look at ...
This week on The State Were In, we look at the crisis in the Gaza Strip, the poor state of education in the Arab world, a university student trapped in Gaza, Koranic schools in Nigeria, and a group of moms in Chicago who completely spruced up their neighbourhood school.
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The State We're In (20081122)
This week on The State Were In, we look at ...
This week on The State Were In, we look at efforts to combat violence against women. Then, how we treat each other online. Sometimes people are nicer through the internet, other times meaner, and sometimes they just lie. Then, we look at discrimination against the Roma in Italy.
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The State We're In
We look at the right to die with 'dignity' with ...
We look at the right to die with 'dignity' with a Dutch nurse who has assisted numerous suicides, and a campaigner who is opposed to the practice. Then, we look at how walls and fences influence how we treat each other. We hear about a Palestinian village surrounded by a wall, meet Texans who don't want a border fence with Mexico, and learn how Greenland has a prison system without walls. And we take a look at the prejudice facing lesbians in Malaysia.
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The State We're In (20081108)
We look at how the United States has treated different ...
We look at how the United States has treated different parts of the world - and what President Elect Barak Obama will have to change - from Kenya, Iran and the Netherlands. Then, the right of gays and lesbians to serve in the military. And we mark Remembrance Day of World War I.
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The State We're In (20081101)
This week: the right to affordable food and who's responsible ...
This week: the right to affordable food and who's responsible to provide it. We look at the right to healthy food. And caste in India: we meet an inter-caste couple fighting discrimination.
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The State Were In
This week, we look at education for women in Afghanistan. ...
This week, we look at education for women in Afghanistan. Then, we continue with a look at the Afghan culture lost in decades of conflict. We meet a group of women in Western Sahara who prize their education, and meet an Iranian student who sued the government over discrimination in university admissions.
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The State We're In (20081018)
This week in The State Were In: civil disobedience. We ...
This week in The State Were In: civil disobedience. We hear about women in Iran using the hijab as a social protest. Then, we look at whether we are losing our right to use civil disobedience as a form of protest, and we hear from grandson of Gandhi. And a look at the American ex-convicts who have lost the right to vote.
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The State We're In (20081011)
This week on The State Were In, we mark Colombus ...
This week on The State Were In, we mark Colombus Day by looking at the rights of indigenous peoples. We hear about the struggle of the people of the Chagos Islands to return home, the rights of Mohawk women, the Maoris, Inuits, and Berbers.
