Radio New Internationalist – Caste aways
Submitted by ni-radio on February 9, 2007 - 5:22pm.
In this program you'll hear one of the main concepts behind Radio New Internationalist take-off, as progressive people from Asia, Europe and the Pacific drop in to our airwaves to share and compare their experiences from different continents. Today, arms traders and corporate raiders share the space with human rights advocates ...and a stand-up comedian:
- Dr Shaista Shameem, Director of the Fiji Human Rights Commission, co-hosts today's program. She's presently mounting an historic case to obtain compensation for the descendents of Pacific Islanders who were forced into slavery to service Fiji's cotton industry.
- Brokering international sales for electric torture batons is child's play. Literally! British comedian and author Mark Thomas was there when the kids were on their mobiles doing the deals.
- In a country still plagued by the problems of caste, Urvashi Butalia, an Indian writer and publisher who lives in New Delhi, tracks the progress of India's affirmative action legislation - one of the first countries in the world to enact such laws.
- Murray Horton from Campaign Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa (CAFCA) talks about this year's Roger Award for the worst transnational operating in New Zealand.
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