Earlier this year, the Saudi female rights activist Loujain Al-Hathloul was released from prison. While certainly a cause for celebration, to many it was also a reminder of the persistent lack of political freedom in Saudi Arabia. Loujain Al-Hathloul was originally arrested for protesting the ban on women driving, and…
A decade has elapsed since the protests that sparked the Arab Spring and ousted Tunisia’s long-standing dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. Despite significant democratic reforms in the North African nation, Tunisians are still taking to the streets en masse in 2021. To understand why, in this episode, War News…
More than a million members of the Uighur community in China have been detained in secret internment camps in by the Chinese government. Reports from the region indicate mass political repression and a widespread crackdown on the ethnic Uighur minority. The Chinese government tightly controls any access to the Chinese…
This week on War News Radio, we host a piece from Human Rights Hummus, a new podcast started by Swarthmore alums Lily Tyson ’17 and Marissa Cohen ’17… Human Rights Hummus: Voices of the Holy Land is your passport to the front lines of one of the most contentious issues…
This week on War News Radio, reporter Anna Weber takes a comparative look at the widespread crisis of femicide in Latin America. Recent protests across the region have sparked new media coverage and legislation in an attempt to combat gender discrimination. Anna interviewed two sexual harassment prevention organizations, one in…
At the end of March, three female judges made a historic decision at the International Criminal Court, convicting a commander, Jean-Pierre Bemba, for rapes committed by his troops. Bemba, the former Congolese Vice President, was found guilty of murder, rape, and pillage during the 2002-2003 conflict in the Central African…
