RIGHTS WATCH RADIO

with Anne Garrels

Rights Watch brings you an update on the state of human rights around the world. In a series of audio reports, veteran public radio journalist Anne Garrels looks at the new issues and voices that are defining today’s human rights movement. With voices from Burma, Congo, Lebanon, Kenya, India and beyond.

  • Burma: Little Change, Some Hope
    January 23, 2011

    Despite the recent release of Burmese dissident Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma's first general election in two decades, Burma-watchers say there's been little real change. Anne Garrels reports.

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  • Migrant Domestic Workers in the Middle East
    January 21, 2011

    Every year, hundreds of thousands of women leave their homes in Asia and Africa for jobs as domestic workers in the Middle East. When they face exploitation and violence there is little hope for justice. Anne Garrels reports.

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  • On the Trail of the LRA
    January 21, 2011

    The Lord's Resistance Army began in Uganda more than 20 years ago. The group kills civilians and abducts children to fill its ranks. Anne Garrels explores what it would take to stop the LRA.

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  • The Global Fight For Pain Relief
    January 21, 2011

    Access to pain relief is practically non-existent in most of the developing world. The issue isn't cost. Morphine is relatively cheap. Anne Garrels explains how the human rights movement is making the case for palliative care.

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