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

Prisoners of Conscience, Mexican Human rights Defender and Roma Education in Slovakia

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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.

The Arms Trade Treaty, women's rights and intimidation of war crimes witnesses in Croatia

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.

Egypt and the impact of social media, Tom Stoppard on Belarus and Safty for Haitian women

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.

Aung San Suu Kyi, partliamentary elections in Eygypt and 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.

Forced evictions in Port Harcourt, Nigera, torture and detention in Iraq and Serbia Pride March 2010

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.

Prisoners of Conscience, Mexican Human rights Defender and Roma Education in Slovakia

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