Amnesty International Podcasts

This months Amnesty International Podcast features the work Amnesty International have been doing at the Arms Trade Treat discussions in New York. An interview with Widney Brown Amnesty International Senior Director of Law Policy on Women's rights. There is also a feature on war crimes witnesses in Croatia and the difficulties they face.

In this months Podcast we hear from our research team on the ground in Egypt and discuss the human rights impact social media is having in the region. We’ll also have playwright Tom Stoppard speaking about the assault on human rights taking place in Belarus. We then have a feature from Haiti where we recently launched a report on the dangers for women in camps after the earthquake there more than a year ago.

This months podcast features an interview with Aung San Suu Kyi, a feature on the recent partliamentary elections in Eygypt and an interview with recently released prisoner of conscience, Igor Sutyagin.

This months podcast includes a feature report on forced eviction and violence in Port Harcourt, Nigeria; interviews with LGBT activists in Serbia who took part in the Pride March earlier this month and also an in-depth look at this years Nobel Peace Prize winner, Liu Xiaobo.

This months podcast includes a report from Salil Shetty, Secretary General Amnesty International from Times Square at the unveiling of the ‘Maternal Mortality Death Clock’. The clock counted the number of women that die unnecessarily during child birth whilst the Millennium Development Goals Summit took place. The podcast also includes a film for Eduardo Campos, Governor of Pernambuco state in Brazil whilst he decides the fate of 53 families in Sirinhaém in the coming weeks. And finally, an update about the latest Amnesty International Report on Unlawful Detention and Torture in Iraq.

This months podcast includes a feature on Prisoners of Conscience, Mexican Human rights Defenders and Roma Education in Slovakia.

This months podcast includes a feature on repression in Cuba with musicians, bloggers and activists, an interview with John Dalhuisen, Amnesty International's researcher on discrimination in Europe on the French plans to ban the Burqa, and finally, some chilling accounts from Gambians on their experiences in prison.

This months podcast has an interview with the new Amnesty International Secretary General Salil Shetty, A report on the human rights situation in the north west region of Pakistan and finishes with Amnesty International UK's 2010 Award for journalism under threat which was given the the independent journalists of Burma. It also includes clips from the musician Moby and a Troy Davis demonstration outside the US Embassy in London.

The Amnesty International Podcast is a hosted show featuring recent Amnesty International news stories, reports, campaigns and events. Amnesty International Report 2010: State of the World's Human Rights, documents abuses in 159 countries, the organization said that powerful governments are blocking advances in international justice by standing above the law on human rights, shielding allies from criticism and acting only when politically convenient.

The Amnesty International Podcast is a hosted show featuring recent Amnesty International news stories, reports, campaigns and events. This release includes a short report from the World Congress Against the Death Penalty which took place in Geneva, interviews with Piers Bannister Amnesty International death penalty co-ordinator and Curtis Macarty fromer death row prisioner. Also in the podcast we have a story on the most dangerous place in the world to be a women, Afghanistan. It looks at Womens rights since the fall of the Taliban and has interviews with Horia Mosadiq Amnesty International Afghanistan researcher and Human rights defender Mrs Gulaly Habib. The podcast ends with an interview with Mike Lewis Amnesty International Military Security and Police Specialist. He talks about the recent Amnesty International report 'From Words to Deeds' which looks at the trade of weapons used for tourture.