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Ralph spends the entire Radio Hour with Simon Winchester, author of “Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World.” Find out that it’s better when Mother Nature makes the boundaries with mountains, rivers, lakes, valleys, and oceans. When humans draw the maps: not as good.
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In this week’s show, we’re covering the disastrous impact of COVID-19 in DPR Korea (widely known as North Korea) as told to the Human Rights Council; violence in South Sudan that’s the worst since the onset of the civil war in December 2013 – and, we’ll hear about war photographer Giles Clarke’s moving portrait campaign showing some of Yemen’s displaced millions, in partnership with OCHA, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
With Daniel Johnson, Solange Behoteguy-Cortes and Alpha Diallo from UN Geneva.
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- Shift mindsets that deny equality for women in all walks of life, urges UN chief
- Blaze kills migrants, guards in Yemeni capital Sana’a
- 10 million additional girls at risk of child marriage because of to COVID-19
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This week, Ralph welcomes union activist and director of the Nurses Professional Organization, Kay Tillow, who tells us how those ads Joe Namath does shilling for Medicare (dis)Advantage are misleading you. And citizen activist, Evan Weissman, stops by to explain how he and his cohorts in the Denver area have found a way to make civics fun with an approach they call “Warm Cookies of the Revolution.”
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Today, women are still in the minority across Vanuatu’s Police Department, but times are changing.
In the final episode of Island Voices, Sergeant Bianca Simeon and her colleagues describe the challenges they face.
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After 10 years of war in Syria, there are likely tens of thousands of detainees across the country, held by the Government and opposition groups – a traumatic waiting game for the families unsure of their fate.
In an interview with UN News’s Daniel Johnson, rights investigator Hanny Megally from the Commission of Inquiry on Syria, explains what steps the international community is taking to try to resolve the situation – and what obstacles it still faces.
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- COVID-19 crisis forced more than 168 million children to miss class in 2020
- Condemnation over targeted killing of three women journalists in Afghanistan
- Nigeria: Children traumatised by abduction need urgent rehabilitation, say UN experts
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- We must end ‘deadly addiction’ to coal for planet’s sake, urges Guterres
- Equitable vaccine delivery plan needs more support to succeed: COVAX partners
- One in four people projected to have hearing problems by 2050
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Ralph welcomes the former head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Richard Cordray, to talk about how this important agency – created in the wake of the 2008 financial meltdown and moribund in the Trump years – needs to start protecting consumers again. Plus, Ralph pays tribute to the late great muckraking journalist, James Ridgeway.
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In the Vanuatu, young women are taking their long boards to the water, refusing to accept the idea that surfing is only for men.
”Solwota Sista” is the first episode of Island Voices, a three-part podcast series which looks at the ways that women in Vanuatu are attempting to break down barriers.
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Attacks on schools in northeast Nigeria and elsewhere are “a way of life” and their impact is “devastating” on children’s mental health.
Despite the dangers, boys and girls are returning in their thousands to places that were previously in the grip of Boko Haram extremists, according to UN Children’s Fund UNICEF.
UN News’s Daniel Johnson spoke to the agency’s representative in Nigeria, Peter Hawkins.
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Sarah Kendzior and Andrea Chalupa are experts on authoritarian states who warned America about election hacking years before 2016. Here, they take a deep dive on the news, skipping outrage to deliver analysis, history, context, and sharp insight on global affairs.
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Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice.
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We go radio gaga as Ralph welcomes iconic progressive radio host, Thom Hartmann, back to the program to discuss what it will take to hear more progressive voices on talk radio to counter the overwhelming influence of right-wing radio.
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This week we cover the top stories from across the UN, including: an update on COVID-19 variants from the World Health Organization (WHO), an alert over a new Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and a the first-ever woman chief of the World Trade Organization (WTO) who hails from Africa – another groundbreaker.
Stay with us too for an interview with top rights expert Fionnuala Ni Alouain, who throws light on the miserable situation for thousands of mainly women and children with links to ISIL extremists who are stuck in camps in Syria’s northeast … and not forgetting a very welcome appearance from regular guests Solange Behoteguy-Cortes and Alpha Diallo.
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When Halina Wolloh was four, her grandfather hid her from the Nazi regime – behind a stack of textiles.
When her father decided to move the family from the Warsaw Ghetto, she learned The Lord’s Prayer in Polish, in case her identity was questioned.
Having previously participated in a UN Holocaust remembrance event, Mrs. Wolloh sat down with Natalie Hutchison to detail her testimony in this edition of In Their Words: Surviving the Holocaust. Finding Hope about how, even in the darkest of times, expressions of humanity emerge.
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Sarah Kendzior and Andrea Chalupa are experts on authoritarian states who warned America about election hacking years before 2016. Here, they take a deep dive on the news, skipping outrage to deliver analysis, history, context, and sharp insight on global affairs.
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From India’s Maharashtra state, super educator Ranjitsinh Disale was awarded a $1 million Global Teacher Prize for his exceptional impact on the lives of hundreds of students, especially girls.
Recognized for going above and beyond, he changed the way parents perceive education and innovated classrooms to engage students and spark their interests. This extraordinary teacher even had a hand in helping to call off underage marriages.
Speaking to UN News’ Anshu Sharma, Mr. Disale began by telling what it means for him to have received this accolade.
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- Myanmar: ‘World is watching’, UN Special Envoy tells military
- Atrocities in eastern DR Congo complicate work of tackling new Ebola outbreak
- Desperate daily quest for food stalks people of South Sudan
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The post Eat the Airwaves! Podcast 02/13/21 appeared first on KODX 96.9 FM – Seattle.
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