Human Rights Magazine
Exploring inequality, abuse and oppression around the world, we hear from those directly involved in an issue, examine the structural context to find why rights abuse exists, and look for possible solutions.
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Podcasting since 2021 • 47 episodes
Human Rights Magazine
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Corruption in Brazil - what’s changed?
Across the world, corruption costs trillions of dollars that should have gone into social and environmental progress. Corruption steals from efforts to reduce poverty, to improve social services and to build schools, hospitals and roads. It lea...
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Season 5
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Episode 5
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Farmers in India remain in poverty - but why?
Every year, about 11,000 people who work in farming in India are listed as having killed themselves. The actual number is probably much higher, and in recent years the number of suicides is increasing. High levels of debt, the impacts of climat...
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Season 5
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Episode 4
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Low access to drinkable water for indigenous people in Mexico’s wettest region
Indigenous communities throughout the world usually take water directly from rivers, ponds, streams, wells or springs. This often requires people – mainly the women of the community - to carry the water from sources distant from the...
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Season 5
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Tradition and tenacity: How Wayuu women sustain La Guajira
Mira Cohen explores the situation for Wayuu people who live in an arid peninsula in northern Colombia. La Guajira region, a rapidly desertifying region shared by northern Colombia and northwestern Venezuela, has been home to the Wayuu indigenou...
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Season 5
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The migrant detention camps in Greece
Greece is a destination country for many refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants from the Middle East and North Africa. The majority of these refugees come from Syria, Afghanistan, Egypt, and EritreaGreece currently hosts about 50,000 ref...
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Season 5
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