This episode of Global Dispatches is a bit different than usual. Rather than the host, Mark Leon Goldberg interviewing someone, he is the one being interviewed. Moderators at the WordNews page on Reddit invited Mark to share some of his...
Rare protests broke out across several cities in China in recent weeks. Demonstrators took to the streets to protest the government’s extreme Zero Covid policy, which imposes harsh lockdowns in an effort to stamp out the virus. In some cases,...
In this episode, we speak with Jamila Afghani, the 2022 Laureate of the Aurora Prize For Awakening Humanity, which is a prestigious annual award conferred to grassroots human rights defenders. Jamila Afghani is a the founder of the local Afghan...
The Trump administration has stopped cooperating with a key element of United Nations global human rights monitoring. Special Rapporteurs are independent experts tapped by the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights to report on human rights...
The new United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet expressed concern that a potential cut of US funding for her office would affect a key resource for victims of torture around the world. Her concerns were raised in...
