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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Episodes
47 episodes
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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49:52
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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23:07
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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Episode 3
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25:13
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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Episode 2
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18:31
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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Episode 1
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22:59
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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31:26
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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Episode 3
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21:02
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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Episode 2
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22:56
The child soldiers of Myanmar
The use of children in combat roles is not new in Myanmar. Both the government and some resistance groups have child soldiers, with tragic results. Hundreds of children have been killed and tortured by the Myanmar army in recent years. In this ...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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18:11
The repressed democracy of Uganda
President Museveni of Uganda has retained power since 1986, using violence, arrests and media suppression to maintain the military dictatorship. In this episode of Human Rights Magazine, Nkwesi Banage talks with experts about the dynamics of po...
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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24:07
The persecution of Fulani people in Ghana
The Fulani people are part of an ethnic group across the Sahara, Sahel and West Africa, comprising between 25 and 40 million people. About 10 million of them are pastoralists, and so they are part of the largest nomadic pastoral community in th...
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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23:15
La Révolution silencieuse
Ce podcast cherche à capturer la complexité du combat féministe au Maroc dans une ère de réforme politique et juridique.
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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56:24
Cambodia garment workers - expression and repression in the garment industry
The garment industry is Cambodia’s largest employer, with more than 850,000 workers. The three largest markets are the European Union, the destination of 40% of the production, followed by the United States at 30% and Canada at 9%. So, if we pu...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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37:29
Coming out as an LGBTQ+ refugee in Canada
Many refugees are fleeing conflict or poverty, but many are also seeking to escape from a society in which, because of their sexual identity and/or preference, they face violence and possibly death every day. In this podcast episode and the rel...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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22:03
Myanmar women fighting against the military regime
A look into the particular role of women in the resistance to the brutal military regime in Myanmar. Produced by Ruolan Ma, it follows on the podcast episode and article she did las...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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35:30
Autism – invisible and easily overlooked?
Canada provides universal healthcare, but people with autism and their families struggle significantly against many barriers and a lack of service. Support is commonly offered following a diagnosis, but what happens when an individual either ca...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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48:37
Have a cuppa, and spare a thought for tea workers
The cost of tea for consumers is really low, given the volume of tea that is grown, half of it produced in China by some 80 million people.But it is workers in places like South Asia that have significant problems, where there is a long ...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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37:55
The crisis in affordable housing – the Montreal example
In Canada, the last time housing was considered to be affordable, relative to income, was in 2004The average price of a home in the Toronto area, the country’s most populated, is more than $1 million. In Quebec too, where the...
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Season 2
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Episode 19
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21:09
Conflict-related sexual violence, a discussion about how to respond
Esther Dingemans is an expert in programmes that respond to conflict-related sexual violence. She worked for several years in humanitarian programmes on sexual and gender-based violence in several countries in Africa and the Middle East. ...
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Season 2
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Episode 18
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48:32
Pathways to Peace, with guest Reem Alsalem
For this episode in the Pathways to Peace series, the focus is on the particular impact of violence and insecurity on women and girls.My guest is Reem Alsalem who, for 17 years until 2016, worked with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, ...
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Season 2
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Episode 17
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25:36
Kafala in Lebanon - legal slavery?
The Kafala system is a form of worker sponsorship that allows private citizens and companies almost total control over the employment and immigration status of migrant workers.Lebanon has some 250,000 migrant domestic workers, most of th...
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Season 2
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Episode 16
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17:41
Journalism in Myanmar despite the repression
In February 2021, Myanmar military leaders removed the democratically elected party from power and took control of the government.In the year following, at least 1,700 civilians, including children, have been killed by the junta forces a...
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Season 2
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Episode 15
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29:36
Protecting culture and human rights as Amazon loses forest
The world's largest rainforest is in trouble. Trees are being cut down at the fastest rate in years, for their wood and to clear the ground for crops supplying the global food industry.75% of the forest is under stress with this le...
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Season 2
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Episode 14
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27:23
Immigration detention in Canada and why it should be abolished
People who come to Canada as refugees or migrants without legal status can be held indefinitely in detention centers or provincial jails. They may not have committed an offense and there is no trial, but they are treated as though they ar...
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Season 2
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Episode 13
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51:51
