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The military junta in Myanmar seized power from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi in February 2021. Since then, military authorities have cracked down on protests and dissent, killing some 1,269 people and arresting more than 10,000, according to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, an advocacy group monitoring the situation. Rights of citizens were suddenly suspended and f...

The international human rights law protects and defends human rights which are premised on the fundamental right to life. However, a right to a dignified life does not seem to include a right to a dignified end. More controversial is whether doctors or anyone else has the right to make medically informed decisions about whether death would serve some terminally ill patients better than trying to k...

The Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi was assassinated while at the Saudi Consulate of Istanbul on October 2, 2018. Despite being close to the Saudi royalty, and even maintaining a friendship with Osama bin Laden, he progressively drifted apart from their mentality and entertained pro-democracy ideas.  Although now solved, his case remains controversial to this day.

Writer and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga received in 2021 the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. Her artistic work and her activism emphasized the mechanism of oppression, linked with gender, colonialism and racism intrinsic to the Zimbabwean society.

A migrant domestic worker who came to Lebanon when she was a teenager faced extreme abuse at the hands of her employers for over 10 years. From having her salary withheld to being cut-off from having contact with the outside world, Sajita Lama is one of many abused domestic workers in Lebanon that was inhumanely treated and is still currently seeking justice for the atrocities committed against he...

This entire podcast is devoted to raising awareness on human rights abuses happening across the world to people of all origins and nationalities.  We’ve seen abuses in the likes of countries such as Malaysia, Ethiopia, Egypt and the US.  We dream of a future of social and political justice, but who can hold these states accountable, and on what basis?

About 21,000 women and girls from northern Myanmar were forced into marriage in just one province of China from 2013 to 2017. These women and girls are usually tricked by brokers who promise well-paid employment across the border in China where they are sold for around 3000 to 13000 dollars to Chinese families seeking a daughter-in-law for their adult son. Seng Moon became one such trafficked brid...

“A man once told me that to be a leader in this country, one needs to carry a coffin at all times.” Such is the current state of dangerosity human rights defenders and social leaders face in Colombia. The once praised 2016 peace accord passed between the government and the biggest armed group of the country proves meaningless as massacres rose, leaving once again the country in chaos and bloodbath...

You’re scrolling through instagram on a lazy evening and you come across Rania, your classmate, announcing online that she is planning to visit home for a while and asking her followers what medicines they need that she could bring back from France.  She asks you and her friends from university for donations, anything, and you wonder what kind of home she must be flying back to. This is the r...

The famously proclaimed father of democracy in Hong Kong finds himself behind bars today. Martin Lee is the eighty-two-year-old barrister-politician who has been convicted, just like other prominent faces from the city, for the pro-democracy protests of August 2019. But how did he get here? Why did he come out of political retirement? How did the star of Hong Kong struggle for democratic values en...

Criminal justice in the US

Ever since the 2013 coup in Egypt, an increase in the harassment of journalists, bloggers, activists and now TikTok content creators posed the question of discrimination, especially since the targetted people are almost all women. While the government is accused of constantly monitoring the way women are represented in media (cinema, TV, and other arts), TikTok video makers are accused of promotin...

He was a cow’s milk trader and father of two. What was initially supposed to be aiding the police at Gombak Police Station into the whereabouts of his brother turned into a 12 day lock up, followed by a sudden admittance into the Intensive Care Unit at Selayang Hospital. Mysteriously, five days later- Ganapathy is pronounced dead. What happened? Who were the perpetrators? Was justice served?

Win Htet Oo, a promising and talented swimmer, withdrew from the 2020 Tokyo Olympics to protest against the military coup in Myanmar, responsible for a repression that killed over a thousand people. The IOC, which didn’t answer any of his petitions, is accused of letting perpetrators of crimes against humanity compete under their neutrality principle.

Evergrande is China’s second largest real estate developer and its revenue accounts for 2% of China’s GDP. Recently a credit crunch (which basically means a lack of cash) has made anxious investors worried about the bets they took in the company with their lifelong savings. The crisis came about both due to over-borrowing and a blunt state intervention to ward off an industrial crush. But countles...

Aafia Siddiqui, also known under the name ‘Lady Al-Qaeda’ for her potential affiliation with the group, was imprisoned in 2010 for 86 years. Strangely enough, none of the charges against her included being a terrorist. This complex case was highly debated because of the different versions of the story each party claimed as the truth. LINK https://www.dawn.com/news/1641831

In this episode of Write the Wrongs, we will focus on Gurnam Singh Chnaduni, a farmer who has become an important representative of the anger of the farmer population of India. Indeed, new farm laws are not accepted by an important part of the population, leading to huge protests all over the country.

Kris Wu is the most influential Chinese celebrity to face criminal charges since the global #MeToo root in China in 2018. The story of the young Ms Du marked sparked a new wave in the movement, with the country's netizens wrapped in a very polarized debate.

In war-torn Afghanistan, history repeats itself. In 2021, as in 1996, the situation of women is threatened by the Taliban forces. Learn more about Zahra Joya, a journalist who through her work, fights against the discrimination of women in her country. Some ressources: - after-the-taliban-takeover-will-an-all-female-afghan-news-site-survive 36_Zahra-Joya.pdf - https://chuffed.org/project/reporting...

This episode is the sixth in a March series that has continued to April tackling heavy topics uniting cultures, the one dealing with growing up, the notions associated and social expectations associated with this phase ineveryone's lives.

This episode covers the historical snapshot behind the current violence and conflict between the Protestant loyalists and the Catholic nationalists in Northern Ireland, and how this troubled past is defining the future of the younger generation. Featuring Paul Brady's 'The Island'.

In this episode of Write the Wrongs, we explore the humanitarian, political and human-rights aspects of the sudden surge in illegal migration along the US-Mexico border as well as the reaction of the current and previous US administrations to this domestic crisis and their major shortcomings in addressing this situation.

This episode is the sixth in a March series that has continued to April tackling heavy topics uniting cultures, the one dealing with religion, the way it affects your life and the community you are part of it.

Welcome to the last episode on the topic of pornography. In it we navigate the often contradictory studies on its influence on the image of women in our society. Is pornography just another tool of the patriarchy? Find out listening to this episode!

This episode continues looking at war crimes taking place in Ethiopia, but this time from an international intervention approach.  We looked at international bodies such as the UN and Amnesty International’s responses, as well as briefly noting the Biden administration and the neighbouring regional countries’ actions.