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 (20080524)
Corporate philanthropy, three stories of the right to sex, kiva.org, ...
Corporate philanthropy, three stories of the right to sex, kiva.org, an organisation that gives loans that change lives, and disappearances in Sri Lanka.
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The State We're In (20080517)
We ask if the Myanmar government has the right to ...
We ask if the Myanmar government has the right to refuse aid, we hear three stories about the right to read, and we hear two stories about international crime.
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The State We're In (20080510)
This week on The State Were In, Israel turns 60, ...
This week on The State Were In, Israel turns 60, three stories on the theme of girl power, and youth gangs in Washington, DC and El Salvador.
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The State We're In (20080503)
This week on The State Were In, we mark World ...
This week on The State Were In, we mark World Press Freedom Day, we look at the legacy of World War II sixty-three years after the liberation of Europe, and we hear two perspectives on female suicide bombers.
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The State We're In (20080426)
We hear how film is changing lives - film for ...
We hear how film is changing lives - film for freedom, film for reconciliation, and film to heal the wounds of war. We also hear three stories about homeland - caught between homes, a home away from home, and losing a home.
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The State We're In (20080419)
This week on The State Were In, a look at ...
This week on The State Were In, a look at the right to compete or boycott the Olympics, along with the mood in China in the wake of the torch protests. Plus, we consider the rights of victims of terrorist attacks, a look at food scarcity in Venezuela, and how Sri Lankans have learned to like fighting.
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The State We're In (20080412)
This week on The State Were In... food prices around ...
This week on The State Were In... food prices around the world are skyrocketing; the right to silence; Palestinian high school production of Romeo and Juliet
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The State We're In (20080405)
This week in TSWI, we look at the causes behind ...
This week in TSWI, we look at the causes behind the recent violence in Cameroon in which up to 100 people have been killed. Changing the System from Within has interviews with a stock trader who quit his job to start an online resource for ethical investing, Bolivian sweat shop workers in Argentina fight for their rights and Irish kids are taught how to ask for healthier school food. Plus we speak with a man whose computer program can accurately predict hot spots around the world and, 40 years after his assassination, the former PR advisor of Martin Luther King talks about how his ideas have affected today's politics.
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The State We're In (20080329)
This week on The State Were In... Dutch politician Geert ...
This week on The State Were In... Dutch politician Geert Wilders finally releases his anti-Islam film "Fitna"; we'll look the right to free speech in the Netherlands and find out why Moslem communities are under much more pressure in Europe than they are in North America. We'll also hear about the relationship between culture and conflict, day to day life in Zimbabwe as people there choose a government, and the rights of prostitutes in Bolivia.
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The State We re In (20080322)
The Dalai Lama says that cultural genocide is taking place ...
The Dalai Lama says that cultural genocide is taking place in Tibet. Does the term exist in International Law and what does it mean from a moral perspective. We ask a legal expert and a Tibetan refugee. Surveillance is our theme this week including a look at a man who decided to spy on himself and we have a peep at the One World Film Festival that has been taking place in Prague.
