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.
Read articles related to these issues and episodes at the web site of The Upstream Journal - www.upstreamjournal.org.
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Podcasting since 2021 • 44 episodes
Human Rights Magazine
Latest Episodes
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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Sudan's Emergency Response Rooms in the midst of war
As this podcast episode, and its companion article on Upstream Journal were being prepared, the Peace Research Institute in Oslo announced the nomination of Sudan's Emergency Response Rooms for the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize. In this episode of Hum...
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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AI and its impact on human rights
In this episode, we take a somewhat different approach to our focus on human rights, and look not at a social situation but rather look at technological possibilities. Artificial intelligence is rapidly emerging as a new tool, as computer techn...
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Season 4
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Homelessness - a racial justice issue
In 2023, more than 650,000 people in America were identified as being without permanent shelters, and that’s a record number, the most since counts were started in 2007, and a 12 percent increase over 2022. Oregon has double what wo...
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Season 4
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