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Right Now Radio is Australia’s only dedicated human rights radio show. We broadcast live every Thursday at 6pm on Melbourne community radio station 3CR 855AM, and the show is streamed live online.
Each week a diverse team of presenters bring you dynamic and engaging discussion and debate focusing on current human rights issues as well as news, event info and interviews with people on the ground in human rights. Podcasts of the show are available for download one week after broadcast. See below for summaries and links. You can also subscribe to the podcasts via iTunes.
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Presenters: Rachel Ball, Anna Dorevitch, Ben Schokman, Evelyn Tadros, Elina Spilia, Emily Forbes, Felicity James, Keelia Fitzpatrick, Matthew Albert.
The human rights news segments are prepared by Erica Weatherlake.
In the studio at 3CR
Thanks to 3CR and the Programming sub-committee for making the podcasts available.
With support from:
Saharawi human rights defender, Aicha Dahane and Cate Lewis, Vice President of the Australia Western Sahara Association, tell us about the human rights situation in Western Sahara, their struggle for self-determination, and the impact of Australia’s phosphate imports on their future.
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On a two part special Right Now Radio speaks to artists and organisers behind the Human Rights Arts and Film Festival (HRAFF), an annual nation wide festival from 12 May – 22 May 2011 featuring film, music, art exhibitions, poetry, speakers, workshops, theatre and even a fashion parade. In this episode we speak to indigenous filmmaker, Adrian Wills, about his two recent films, Boxing for Palm Island and Bourke Boy, screening at HRAFF and Shweta Kishore, documentary filmmaker, writer and HRAFF programmer.
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Right Now Radio’s Ben Schokman speaks to Grant Mitchell, Director of the International Detention Coalition, about alternatives to immigration detention and how Australia’s immigration and refugee detention system measures up to it’s international peers.
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Right Now Radio analyses Australia’s response to people smugglers. RNR’s Rachel Ball and Anna Dorevitch talk to Glen Ayers, Project Director of the “People Smugglers: Friend or Foe” exhibition, and Pamela Curr, Campaigns Coordinator of the Asylum Seekers Resource Centre.
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Adelaide Rief chats to Andre Dao, Editor in Chief of Right Now following the recent launch of its exciting new website taking creative expression of human rights issues online. Also includes updates on Left Right Think Tank’s 2011 Fellowship program and the Human Rights Law Centre Seminar ‘Will the Revolution be Tweeted’.
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Dave Bloch in conversation with Sara Davies from the Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect about the events in Libya, what they might signal for the doctrine of the Responsibilty to Protect (R2P), and Australia’s role in this debate.
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Em Howie chats with Phil Lynch, Director of the Human Rights Law Resource Centre, about the recent Universal Periodic Review undertaken by Australia at the UN. How did Australia fare? What influence does the UN and other states’s response to Australia’s human rights record have on our government?
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In recognition of the centenary of International Women’s Day (8th March 2011), Right Now Radio spoke with lawyer and feminist trailblazer, Ariel Couchman, and Feminist Futures Co-Convenor, Alexia Staker, about their personal reflections on the evolution of the women’s rights movement: how far we have come and what challenges remain.
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Anna Dorevich and David Bloch talk with Kate Gauthier, the Chair of ChilOut, about Australia’s ‘littlest prisoners’ – asylum seeker children who are detained under Australia’s mandatory detention regime. In October last year the Government announced its plan to move the majority of children and vulnerable family groups out of immigration detention facilities and into community detention by June 2011. But with over 1000 children still being detained across the country, the strength of this commitment has been called into question. ChilOut has spent the last 10 years raising awareness about the plight of children in detention and campaigning for their release.
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Evelyn Tadros and Laura Vines crossed live to Cairo to Mina Georgy, an IT Manager (and Ev’s cousin!) to get a first hand account of the protests that brought down Mubarak, Egypt’s autocratic president for the past 30 years. Ev and Laura also spoke with Waleed Aly, prominent Australian academic, political commentator and writer. Waleed and Mina discussed the human rights issues that provoked the protests and the challenges facing the country as it transitions to democracy.
Download podcast here (23MB)