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Rights Watch, the podcast

Saturday, June 20, 2009
Posted in Human Rights | Tagged Human Rights

We’re delighted to introduce you to Rights Watch, the podcast from Human Rights Watch!Rights Watch is a show about human rights around the world, featuring interviews, audio features and dispatches from human rights defenders. Please give a listen-and spread the word!

In the first few shows we’ve heard stories about survivors of an Lord’s Resistance Army massacre in Congo, inmates fighting for access to drug treatment in a New York State prison and civilians trapped in Sri Lanka’s conflict.

We recommend, especially, producer Jessie Graham’s interview with Human Rights Watch’s South Asia researcher Ali Dayan Hasan. He very eloquently explains the global significance of the recent conflict in the Swat Valley and gives a personal account of how the Talibanization of Pakistan has changed daily life in Lahore.

This week: Lynn Nottage on how she brought a play about the brutality of rape and the complexity of modern Africa to Broadway and won a Pulitzer.

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We hope you will also visit the HRW website to check out our ever-expanding multimedia work, including audio, video and slideshows