Actress Michelle Twarowska and Clint Borgen, President of The Borgen Project discuss the latest global issues.

In this episode...

• Polling shows Afghanistan men believe human rights for women is key to Afghanistan's future.
• Does your name determine your political views?
• Zimbabwe government kills elephants to address famine.
• Israel continues to bomb safe zones.
• Polio vaccination underway in Gaza.

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Dr. Adam Hamawy, a retired Lt. Colonel who served in Iraq, discusses what it's like working in Gaza's hosptials. Sen. Tammy Duckworth, who lost both of her legs in Iraq when a rocket-propelled grenade struck the helicopter she was piloting has credited Dr. Adam Hamawy with saving her life. Hamawy points out in normal warfare the patients are predominantly soldiers, but in Gaza it's overwhelmingly civilians and children being shot, bombed and injured.

• Read the letter U.S. doctors sent to Congress.
• Emailing Congress in support of a ceasefire in Gaza.

Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that works at the political level to improve living conditions for people impacted by war, famine and poverty.
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Chief of Staff Lynsey Alexander joins Clint Borgen to discuss Gaza. American doctors serving in Gaza are calling on the White House to stop providing weapons to Israel. The doctors cite the injuries they see daily aren't normal warfare, but the deliberate targeting of children and civilians.

• Read the letter U.S. doctors sent to Congress.
• Emailing Congress in support of a ceasefire in Gaza.

Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that works at the political level to improve living conditions for people impacted by war, famine and poverty.
borgenproject.org

Actress Michelle Twarowska and Clint Borgen, President of The Borgen Project discuss the latest global issues.

In this episode...

• NATO 101
• Rats being used in Africa to detect landmines.
• Israeli Prime Minister Netanyau has been criminally charged by the ICC for starving millions of people and committing crimes against humanity in Gaza... so naturally the White House has decided to send him more 500 pound bombs to drop on the people of Gaza

Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that works at the political level to improve living conditions for people impacted by war, famine and poverty.
borgenproject.org


Learn more about Apopo's efforts to train rates for mine detection.

Ewan Watson, Head of Global Communications for the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) discusses Sudan and South Sudan.

Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that works at the political level to improve living conditions for people impacted by war, famine and poverty.

• Email Congress in support of poverty-reduction legislation
• Remote volunteer ops at The Borgen Project
• Donate

Marissa Vahlsing of EarthRights International discusses their big victory in efforts to bring justice for victims of banna killings. This month a jury in Florida found Chiquita liable for killings between 1997 and 2004 by a Colombian paramilitary group that the company provided millions of dollars to. The paramilitary group was designated a terrorist organization by the U.S. Department of State.

• Learn more about EarthRights International

• BBC article about the case.

Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that works at the political level to improve living conditions for people impacted by war, famine and poverty.

• Email Congress in support of poverty-reduction legislation
• Remote volunteer ops at The Borgen Project
• Donate

Actress Michelle Twarowska and Clint Borgen, President of The Borgen Project discuss the latest global issues. In this episode...

• A different perspective on impoverished and war-torn countries. There's much more to poor countries then meets the eye. 
• The stats are in... the college protests in support of Gaza were overwhelmingly peaceful. 
• Why did Congress invite Israeli Prime Minister Netanyau to speak to a Joint Session of Congress? An honor that's been given to Winston Churchill and Nelson Mandela is now going to someone facing war crimes charges. 

Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that works at the political level to improve living conditions for people impacted by war, famine and poverty.
borgenproject.org

• Email Congress in support of poverty-reduction legislation
• Remote volunteer ops at The Borgen Project
• Donate

What is the United Nations? Clint Borgen and Lynsey Alexander discuss the coolest organization that most people know very little about. From humanitarian assistances to prosecuting war crimes, the U.N. is instrumental in righting some of the world's biggest wrongs. 

Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that works at the political level to improve living conditions for people impacted by war, famine and poverty.
borgenproject.org

• Email Congress in support of poverty-reduction legislation
• Remote volunteer ops at The Borgen Project
• Donate

Josh Paul was a Director at the State Department for 12-years and involved with sending weapons to foreign countries. In October of 2023, Paul publicly resigned citing concerns the U.S. wasn’t following its own laws and procedures when it came to supplying weapons to Israel. Paul noted that Israel was requesting a "variety of weapons that have no applicability to the current conflict.”

Read Paul's Op Ed in the Washington Post

• Email Congress in support of poverty-reduction legislation
• Remote volunteer ops at The Borgen Project
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Jonathan Fowler of UNRWA joins the podcast. UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.) is unique in terms of its long-standing commitment to one group of refugees. It has contributed to the welfare and human development of four generations of Palestine refugees. 

Email Congressional leaders in support of a ceasefire in Gaza

Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that works at the political level to improve living conditions for people impacted by war, famine and poverty. Actress Michelle Twarowska and Clint Borgen, President of The Borgen Project discuss the latest global issues. 
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• Email Congress in support of poverty-reduction legislation
• Remote volunteer ops at The Borgen Project
• Donate