How a Feminist's Fight for Her Rights in Iran Became a Global Cause
Shirin Ebadi, Iranian Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, human rights activist and the author of Until We Are Free: My Fight For Human Rights in Iran (Random House, 2016), shares the story of her dismissal as...
View ArticleBrian Lehrer Weekend: Iranian Nobel Prize-Winner Shirin Ebadi, Paying for...
A few of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them.Iranian Nobel Prize-Winner Shirin Ebadi (First) | Paying for Academic Journals (Starts at 15:57) | A Former CIA/NSA Head (Starts at...
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How will U.S. detente change Cuba?
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioGWEN IFILL: Now we turn to the view from the ground in Cuba during this historic visit.It comes from the BBC’s Laura Trevelyan, who is reporting from Havana tonight.So,...
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Obama and Castro share differences and goodwill during historic Cuba visit
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: The end of one era, the beginning of another. President Obama held direct talks today with the leader of Cuba in his capital city. And they took...
View ArticleRethinking Outerborough Bridge Tolls; Boston Globe's 'Spotlight' Team
Coming up on today's show:The U.S. has charged 7 Iranian hackers over cyberattacks on American banks and a dam in Rye Brook, NY. Hear whether the charges will prevent future cyberattacks, or escalate a...
View ArticleBahraini's 'Highly Functional Unjustice System'
Maryam al-Khawaja, co-director of the Gulf Center for Human Rights, talks about her sister, imprisoned with her fifteen-month-old child, on the 5-year anniversary of a Saudi military intervention in...
View ArticleKatie Couric Takes Congress' Temperature; Sexuality and Teenage Girls Today;...
Coming up on today's show:Yahoo News global anchor Katie Couric talks about her roundtable discussion with congressional Republicans about the Trump candidacy and where their party is headed.In the...
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Colombia’s ELN rebels enter peace talks, raise hopes for more changes
Natalia Arango helps locate mines planted by rebel groups near Sonson in Antioquia province, Colombia, on Nov. 19, 2015. Photo by Fredy Builes/ReutersThe Colombian government on Wednesday formally...
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The West Responds to the Attacks in Brussels; Obama Visits Cuba
Were there errors on part of Belgian law enforcement? What is the significance of Obama's trip to Cuba?
View ArticleNorth Carolina Sues the Justice Department Sues North Carolina
Last week, the Justice Department stated that North Carolina violated the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by prohibiting people from using public restrooms that do not match the gender listed on their birth...
View ArticleBob Bernstein Looks Back
Robert Bernstein, founder of the organization that became Human Rights Watch, 25-year president of Random House and the author of (with Doug Merlino) Speaking Freely: My Life in Publishing and Human...
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Business lobby calls for U.S. to drop sanctions on Myanmar
U.S. President Barack Obama and former political prisoner Aung San Suu Kyi, who is now running the Myanmar’s government, hold a press conference after their meeting at her residence in Yangon, November...
View Article30 Issues | Examining the Candidates’ Positions on China
Fred Bergsten, senior fellow and director emeritus of the Peterson Institute For International Economics, discusses Hillary Clinton's and Donald Trump's foreign policy positions on China.Bergsten said,...
View ArticleLGBT Beyond Marriage Rights
Carlos Ball, law professor at Rutgers University, Newark, and the editor of After Marriage Equality: The Future of LGBT Rights (NYU Press, 2016), surveys scholars and activists on where the LGBT...
View ArticleStreet Artist Stik on his Iconic Murals and Graffiti
Artist Stik first gained recognition as an underground street artist who painted life-size stick figures during the night around London’s East End. He joins us to talk about his first book Stik which...
View ArticleArtists use Twitter and translation to rally behind poet jailed in Saudi Arabia
Artists and activists this week showed their support for Ashraf Fayadh, a Palestinian poet who has been held in a Saudi prison for more than two years, by translating his writings and tweeting his...
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Why a 1995 speech proved formative for Clinton
U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton delivers remarks at a gathering of law enforcement leaders at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York on August 18, 2016. Photo by Lucas...
View ArticleUncovering the Abuse Faced by Women in the Trucking Industry
Women in the trucking industry deal with catcalls, harassment, rape, and an unresponsive, often retaliatory, system that denies them justice. Mary Pilon, a freelance journalist and author of The...
View ArticleThe Double-Edged Sword of American Support of LGBT Rights in Africa
As a part of NPR's A Nation Engaged series, we take a look at the struggle for African LGBT activists who are wrestling with the need — and imposition — of American support."Homosexuality has taken...
View ArticleOrganizing a National Prison Strike From Behind Bars
On the 45th anniversary of New York State’s deadly Attica uprising, inmates at prisons across the United States undertook what’s been called “the biggest prison protest in US history.” The unifying...
View ArticleRussia’s new scapegoats
A Russian journalist is murdered in St. Petersburg – not for what he’s reported, but for being gay. Reveal exposes what it’s really like to be gay in Russia and neighboring countries today, where...
View ArticleA Nun's Life, Politics and Murder
Eileen Markey, investigative journalist and the author of A Radical Faith: The Assassination of Sister Maura, looks at the social and political forces that led Maryknoll nun Maura Clarke to El Salvador...
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Sessions known for tough stance on immigration — and failed judgeship
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: And now for our in-depth look at President-elect Trump’s latest picks for his top jobs in his administration.We start with Senator Jeff Sessions, one of...
View ArticleTackling Segregation in NYC's Schools
Ritchie Torres, New York City Council Member (15th District) representative of the Central Bronx, and Yasmeen Khan, education reporter for WNYC, talk about the latest efforts to increase racial and...
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Egypt envisions ‘strengthening’ of U.S. relationship under Trump
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: The first foreign leader to call President-elect Trump after his victory was Egypt’s president, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.The Arab world’s most populous...
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An American humanitarian worker goes on trial in Cairo. What’s next for Aya...
Aya Hijazi in the center. Photo courtesy of the Belady FoundationIn May 2014, Aya Hijazi, a 29-year-old Egyptian-American humanitarian worker, was imprisoned in Egypt. For more than two years, she was...
View ArticleThe Special U.S.-Saudi Relationship Has Outlived Its Usefulness
Over 70 years ago in 1945, U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and King Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia met onboard the USS Quincy. A close relationship between the two countries has been maintained...
View Article#AskTheMayor about Homelessness; How Bannon Saved DACA; Do Strong Markets...
Coming up on today's show:Bill de Blasio, mayor of New York City, takes calls from listeners and discusses this week in NYC.Adrian Carrasquillo, White House correspondent for BuzzFeed News, discusses...
View ArticleGay Men Are Disappearing In Chechnya
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview. At the end of March, reports began surfacing from human rights workers and a Russian opposition newspaper that gay men were being arrested,...
View ArticleAmerica's Complicated Ties With Egypt
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview. Late last week, Egyptian-American aid worker Aya Hijazi was released from the Egyptian jail where she had been imprisoned for three years due...
View ArticleThe Long Fight for Human Rights in Egypt
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview. Around the world, advocates for human rights say we are facing a crisis: A crackdown on dissent.In Egypt, there's been a recent crackdown on...
View ArticleThe Fight to Document Human Rights Abuses in Russia
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview. This week, The Takeaway is exploring dissent in different corners of the world. Today, we go to Russia and Chechnya.Reports of brutal torture...
View ArticleWhat cops aren’t learning
Some police departments are embracing a set of tactics designed to reduce the use of force – and prevent police shootings. Rather than rushing in aggressively, officers back off, wait out people in...
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Trump lavishes praise on Saudis, but silent on human rights
Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud waits to greet U.S. President Donald Trump, as he arrives to attend a summit of Gulf Cooperation Council leaders in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia May 21, 2017....
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Exclusive: Aya Hijazi on her surprising meeting with President Trump after...
Aya Hijazi, who spent three years as a political prisoner in Egypt, spoke with PBS NewsHour Judy Woodruff. Photo by Abbey OldhamIn an exclusive interview with PBS Newshour, Aya Hijazi, an...
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Is China still gathering organs from executed prisoners?
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioWILLIAM BRANGHAM: Decades ago, China began a practice that human rights advocates and medical ethicists condemned: taking organs, such as kidneys and livers, from...
View ArticleEgypt Restricts Aid as Attacks on Christians Continue
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview. This week, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi set in place a law that will put more restrictions on aid groups. El-Sisi had delayed...
View ArticleN. Korea Has Released An American Detainee, But Others Remain
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview.Otto Warmbier, a student at the University of Virginia, was detained in North Korea 17 months ago. He was serving a 15-year sentence of hard...
View ArticleThe Invention Of Human Rights
Human rights are hotly-debated, but when did that debate begin? UCLA’s Lynn Hunt talks about what might have been the formative moment for human rights - and how we’re constantly changing our...
View ArticleFull Show: Big Oversights
When did the fight for human rights begin? According to Lynn Hunt, the 18th century. And why? One answer is rather unexpected: the rise of the novel. Childhood experiences can drastically affect a...
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Myanmar’s Rohingya stuck in limbo between persecution and relocation
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: But, first, we turn to Bangladesh and the plight of the Rohingya.They are an ethnic minority group seeking refuge there, many having been forced from...
View ArticleToday's Slavery
Siddharth Kara, director of the Program on Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of Modern...
View ArticleEnemy of Mankind
Should the U.S. Supreme Court be the court of the world? In the 18th century, two feuding Frenchmen inspired a one-sentence law that helped launch American human rights litigation into the 20th...
View ArticleInside Trump’s Immigration Crackdown
Beyond the planned border wall and limits on new refugees, the federal government wants tighter restrictions on immigration to this country. On this episode of Reveal, we examine efforts throughout the...
View ArticleMacArthur Fellow Greg Asbed On Fighting For Worker Rights
Greg Asbed, co-founder of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) and recipient of a 2017 MacArthur Fellowship, joins us to talk about his work as a labor organizer. Founded in 1993, The Coalition of...
View ArticleThursday Morning Politics; #MeToo in Ford's Chicago Factories; Christmas In...
Coming up on today's show (Sarah Gonzalez guest hosts): Heather McGhee, president of Demos Action, discusses what happens now that the GOP tax plan has passed through the Senate and Congress and the...
View ArticleThe Invention Of Human Rights
We all know Thomas Jefferson’s famous words immortalized in the Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.” But when did the world start...
View ArticleFull Show: The Ever-Present Past
“The past is never dead. It's not even past.” This week on Innovation Hub, we prove Faulkner right. We’ve got stories about how history still affects all our daily lives, in a myriad of different ways....
View ArticleWhen The Personal Becomes Political
When you're the first openly transgender person to speak at a national political convention, the personal becomes political. Sarah McBride, national press secretary at the Human Rights Campaign, shares...
View ArticleInside The Rohingya Genocide
Nicholas Kristof, New York Times columnist and the co-author of A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity (Vintage, 2015), talks about sneaking into sealed-off Rohingya villages in...
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