World in Progress

What's changed in the textile industry five years after the Rana Plaza disaster in Bangladesh ? --- Women in Poland take to the streets to protest planned tightening the country’s restrictive abortion law

This week on the show: We'll hear about children who were uprooted from their homes in Reunion and shipped off to France. Children in Zimbabwe working on tobacco fields are getting sick from nicotine poisoning. And: A sex abuse scandal shakes up Argentina's soccer clubs.

The Good Friday agreement ended three decades of violence between Catholics and Protestants in 1998. Since then, Northern Ireland's economy has picked up and tourists have returned, but divisions can still be felt today and the peace process continues. This report takes you on a roadtrip along the Northern Irish coast to get a feeling for what life is like 20 years after the end of the conflict.

World in Progress is a 30-minute radio show that connects the dots in a globalized era.

Sharia Law and tourism in Aceh, Indonesia -- Tolerance and Christian theology in Morocco -- More young Copts in Egypt are interested in monastic life -- Daoism is seeing a revival in China's Zhongnan mountains

On this week's show: Find out why it's so hard to get adequate treatment for mental health patients in Togo, where the mentally sick are often beaten and chained for weeks or months, and how Bhutan, the country known for its official policy of "Gross National Happiness" is dealing with an increase in depression in society.

This week on the show: People from Central America are leaving their home countries to escape poverty and dangerous gang violence. They are hoping to make it to the US, but most get stuck in Mexico and are then deported. We'll hear from migrants and their dangerous journeys. And: How a lack of data is hampering development.

The Nile River has been the life line for East Africa for thousands of years. A mythical river, drinking water, irrigation, hydropower - the Nile feeds many needs in the countries it traverses. But now tensions increase over the water usage. Anna Osius and Linda Staude met people who depend on the river's water, from its southermost source in Burundi down to the Nile delta in Egypt.

World in Progress is a 30-minute radio show that connects the dots in a globalized era.

On this week's show, we'll find out why millions of women are statistically "missing" from India's population, and meet a schoolgirl caught up in Tanzania's crackdown on teen pregnancy. Plus, the hijab-wearing rockers from Indonesia who are tackling serious topics with heavy metal music.