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 (20081004)
This week on The State Were In... we meet an ...
This week on The State Were In... we meet an American who can't sell his house or get a loan and speak with the Kenyan organization giving loans to the elderly. Do we have a right to explore space? We hear about the dangers of space trash, meet the first woman space tourist and talk to the Association for Autonomous Astronauts, who offer uplifting instructions on building DJ powered spacecraft.
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The State We're In
This week on The State Were In... we meet an ...
This week on The State Were In... we meet an American who can't sell his house or get a loan and speak with the Kenyan organization giving loans to the elderly. Do we have a right to explore space? We hear about the dangers of space trash, meet the first woman space tourist and talk to the Association for Autonomous Astronauts, who offer uplifting instructions on building DJ powered spacecraft.
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The State We're In (20080927)
This week on The State Were In, we look at ...
This week on The State Were In, we look at the right to obtain information from the authorities, the right to sleep and sleep-related problems, and the difficulties of being gay and African.
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The State We're In (20080920)
This week on The State Were In, we look at ...
This week on The State Were In, we look at the role of technology in promoting human rights. First, Facebook and blogs in the Middle East. Then, a site that counts the murdered in a Brazilian state, radio for justice in DRC, and a collection of mobile phone images of violence in Iraq.
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The State We're In (20080913)
This week on The State Were In, we look at ...
This week on The State Were In, we look at the right to a comfortable retirement, the right to a toilet, transgender toilets in Thailand, and a Sri Lankan puts a dot on her forehead and faces problems at checkpoints.
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The State We're In (20080906)
This week on The State Were In, we look at ...
This week on The State Were In, we look at the right to unionise, the right to be fat, being fat in Africa, and a mock-up of Guantánamo outside the Republic Convention.
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The State We're In (20080830)
Three years ago Massood Janjua left for work and never ...
Three years ago Massood Janjua left for work and never returned. We hear about one of the thousands of people who disappeared in Pakistan. And as North America enjoys a Labour Day holiday we look at labour rights from Cambodian factory workers to Dutch sex workers.
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The State We're In (20080823)
This week on The State Were In, we ask if ...
This week on The State Were In, we ask if everyone has a right to clean drinking water. This weeks theme is the right to the medical treatment of your choice, be it conventional or alternative. And we talk to a Dutch man fighting for the right to grow his own marijuana for medical use.
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The State We're In (20080816)
In this edition of The State Were In, we look ...
In this edition of The State Were In, we look at the right to a level playing field in sports, the rights of visual artists to express themselves, and the right to wear what you want in Washington DC and Kenya.
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The State We're In (20080809)
In this edition of TSWI, we examine the impact of ...
In this edition of TSWI, we examine the impact of the Olympic Games on trash recyclers in Beijing, the human rights legacy of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the right to compete, and we mark the tenth anniversary of the US embassy bombings in Africa.
